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Ceremony NEED HELP

Okay. So me and my fiancé are getting married in September. He is in the military and we were just going to have a courthouse wedding alone. Our parents really pushed us and said "Have something more traditional, you guys deserve it." So in September he is coming home and we are getting married before we have to move across the country to be stationed somewhere else. 

Here is my dilemma. My dad is going to be the JP and marry us. Can he still walk me down the aisle? How would that happen? 

Also, our only "bridal party" is my younger kid sister who will be Tuxedo clad and carrying our rings. She entitled herself the Maid Of Honor With Expensive Items to Carry. Should she walk in before me? 

I am really lost as to how to set up this aisle walking? 

Is parents walking down outdated? His parents and then mine? Would it make more sense to have my mom walk me down the aisle? Or my Uncle? 

Re: Ceremony NEED HELP

  • Parents walking down the aisle is not outdated. Traditionally it would be his first and then your mother.  Your sister would walk down the aisle in front of you.  There is nothing wrong with your dad walking you down the aisle and then moving into position to perform the ceremony.  There is also nothing wrong with your mother walking you down the aisle.  If you want to include your uncle he could seat your mom and then your dad could walk with you.  

    Oh, and welcome to military life.  I'm a military wife who is literally in the middle of a PCS (Permanent Change of Station).  
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  • Thanks so much for the advice. It is just so short notice and so much going on in our lives not to mention I am planning this by myself ...and the little time i do get to talk or Skype with my fiancé the last thing he wants to do is give his opinion on table cloths and favor ideas… even though he does. I feel bad stranding my groom up there alone while we all walk down the isle though … hahah this is going to take some working out kinks. Well congrats and good luck on your PCS. I hope you "Bloom wherever you are planted"
  • Thanks so much for the advice. It is just so short notice and so much going on in our lives not to mention I am planning this by myself ...and the little time i do get to talk or Skype with my fiancé the last thing he wants to do is give his opinion on table cloths and favor ideas… even though he does. I feel bad stranding my groom up there alone while we all walk down the isle though … hahah this is going to take some working out kinks. Well congrats and good luck on your PCS. I hope you "Bloom wherever you are planted"
    My husband was gone a lot while we were engaged.  He was in and out to sea on work ups to gear up for deployment so he left a lot of stuff to me.  I would do the research and then present him with the options I like best.  He basically wanted veto power.  He was able to look at the venue and went to the cake tasting.  I handled the flowers, photography, invitations, etc. on my own.  I dealt the with DJ but he did help me come up with the play list.  

    As for the PCS we are going right back where we came from. You don't always end up someone new and exciting.  :)  And some of our friends are jealous of that because we don't have to learn our way around, find a salon, figure out where the "good" stores are, etc.  We are even moving back into the same house (we had been renting it out) so we already know where most of the furniture goes.  
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  • CMGragainCMGragain member
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    edited July 2014
    Ministers daughters get married, too.  Dad walks them down the aisle, and then moves into his place to conduct the ceremony.
    Does your FI have family?  Will they be there? Perhaps he has a relative or friend who can be his best man.

    Congratulations.  I planned my own wedding in about two months.
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  • You could always have your FI walk his mom down the aisle first.  MOG would take her place, then your FI would move to the front.  So he would only be standing at the front of the aisle for a short time.
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