I'm just starting to plan the wedding and I'd love some feedback. We're not planning to have bridesmaids or groomsmen because my fiance doesn't have any siblings, cousins, or extremely close male (or female) friends that he would want up there with him. We're both very close to our parents (both sides still happily married), and I had the idea of perhaps having our parents stand up at the altar with us, as though my parents were my "bridesmaids" and his parents were his "groomsmen." We're thinking of asking my sister to be the officiant (she can get ordained to do it), so this way up there at the alter will be the people who are closest to us at the wedding.
This seems like a better alternative than having my sister and cousins be my bridesmaids and having my fiance pick several friends who he's not sure if he'll still be that close to twenty years from now, and it also seems better than the two of us standing up there alone (I know some people do this though). I tried googling this to see if anyone does this (having parents stand up at the altar with you instead of a traditional wedding party) but I couldn't seem to find anything.
Do you think this would be a good idea? Would people think it looks strange, or would it seem really sweet? Any feedback would be appreciated, especially since we can't really ask people we know, since we don't yet want to tell anyone we're not having a wedding party until we're sure exactly what we're doing.