Uneven and small wedding party?

sabatron

Our wedding party is small... MOH, bridesmaid and best man. The fiance has toyed with idea of having a groomsman but has no idea who he'd ask. I'm also running into an issue where I don't know how to introduce my parents at the reception. They're divorced, with my mom seeing someone and my dad single. Should I have someone escort my dad in? So lost on this one...

xoxob

Uneven sides are totally cool.

Do your parents get along? Does your dad want to be escorted? Ask them how they want to be introduced and there you go. No need to stress.

emilyinchile

It sounds like an uneven WP makes more sense for you guys, and that's better than your FI asking someone he's not close with.

You don't have to introduce your parents at the reception (I've never been to a wedding where parents were introduced), so it might be easiest to skip it.

sabatron

Interesting... I thought the parents were always introduced. My parents hate each other, so I'd like to circumvent tension whenever possible.  Who should walk the bridesmaid down the aisle if the WP is uneven?

aerinpegadrak

One guy can escort two girls, or she can walk alone.  Either way is fine.

I've never seen parent introductions either.  We're not even introducing the wedding party, just us.

xoxob

Why doesn't the BM just take one on each arm.

Or, one can walk alone.

sabatron

Well it's a relief that parent intros aren't expected. My mom was saying that the parents, grandparents, and whole wedding party are introduced. I thought that was just ludicrous!

xoxob

We're probably going to do our WP, just because FI has been in 50% of his intended WP and they did introductions. It makes sense with our friends and we have fun with it....no family. My mom would be so embarrassing.

gottahavashorti

Keep the uneven sides.

For intros, do you and FI, you FI and WP or just have your parents introduced separately.  Probably only FI and I will be introduced.  I would skip that too, but supposedly it's how you kick off the reception (cocktail hour is in only one part of the venue) and I didn't care enough to fight that one.

MyNameIsNot

I've never seen anyone other than WP introduced.  

sid464

That's so interesting... I've never been to a wedding where the parents and bridal party WEREN'T introduced.... I always just assumed that was a given.

OP, I see you're from NJ too- maybe it's just a Jersey thing?

sabatron

Yeah, maybe it's a Jersey thing... we're weird, what can I say?  I think I might just have my fiance and I introduced. It'll make things a lot less complicated. Anyone doing a sweetheart table?