How should the moms be ushered?

Starmusica · April 2010

ok-I posted this on another local board but I am hoping you ladies can also weigh in...

How are you guys doing the parents entrances? My dad is walking me down the aisle so I need someone to usher my mom. FI parents are married and I had assumed they would have a formal entrance together before my mom was ushered to her seat. However, FI's mom is flipping out a bit. She wants FI to walk her down the aisle or at least another usher.. and have her husband trail behind him. I cannot for the life of me remember how this was at other weddings but I personally think this is weird! am I wrong? Shouldn't his parents walk as a couple? My mom is only in need of an usher since my dad is walking me...

I appreciate the advice! I hate that this is even a concern for us!

MairePoppy · April 2010

I have seen it done the way your FMIL has requested. If an usher is escorting her, he could return to the back and enter with the wedding party (or whatever your Mom's usher is doing). Or he could seat the grooms parents and then take his place at the front. It's a nice way to honor the grooms parents, as well as your own.

skippylouwho · April 2010

At all the weddings I've been to the MOB is escorted in, her husband follows behind. I have seen the groom escort his mother in, I've seen the best man escort her in and I've also see other relatives of the groom that are in the wedding party do it. (Brother, cousin, etc).

For my DD's wedding, my son is a groomsman and he will escort me in. It is the ONLY thing I've requested about the entire wedding. The groom will escort his mother in. This wedding is 167 days away.

For my son's wedding, he will escort me in. I don't know who they've selected to escort the bride's mother in yet. (that wedding is stil 364 day away). This is also the only thing I'm asking "for" for this wedding. Whatever else they do or have is between the couple but I have asked for this one thing. It means a lot to me.

MOBinFL2008 · April 2010

I've seen the MoG escorted by her husband, I've seen both the MoG and FoG walk with the groom between them, and I've seen the MoG escorted by a groomsman with her husband walking behind. I've never seen the MoG escorted by the groom and her husband walk behind....that makes it kind of seem like he isn't even the parent.

At my DD's wedding, the brother of the groom (a groomsman) escorted the grandmother of the groom, SMoG was escorted by the FoG, the MoG was escorted by the SFoG, and I was escorted by my son who was also a groomsman.

jenn.daniel · April 2010

I'm planning on asking FFIL to walk FMIL down the aisle. Or maybe FBIL walk FMIL. I'm going to ask her what she'd like.

skippylouwho · April 2010

maybe how it is traditionally handled is a regional thing?

Starmusica · April 2010

its not religious.. I think she just wants a moment with her son... but we have others built in for her already.. this is just one of a many list of issues we've had.

jrksle · April 2010

Most weddings and other events that I've been to where ushers are present, they escort the matron, and the husband follows behind. I see know reason why this is necessarily the case, but I've never seen it another way.

khornack · April 2010

My brothers will be will be ushers and will be escorting the grandmothers and mothers down the aisle at the beginning of the procession. We will have them go down one at a time (I have two brothers who will alternate). My father will be escorting me, and other than that, there will be only one man (my grandfather) who needs to be escorted. I think my brother will just be in the middle. I'm not sure about what to do with my FFIL, she and my fiance's mother are divorced, and I'm not sure how it will go over to not have him escorted, but at the same time, it sounds a little awkward.

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