Grandparents walking down the isle?

[Deleted User] · December 2010

Are any of your (or FI's) grandparents walking down the isle?

And if so, in instances of widowed grandparents, who is walking with them down the isle?

shan87 · December 2010

My Uncle is walking ME down the aisle.
Ushers will walk my Mom and FI parents down the aisle.. but we never thought about Grand Parents... perhaps the Ushers before the parents... ?

CountJackula · December 2010

I was at a wedding this summer where two of the grandmothers where widowed and the best man walked them both down. One on each arm. I really liked that idea..

musicalsunlight · December 2010

My grandparents on both sides are walking down the aisle together, because both sets have been really important to me in different ways. My great-grandma is the oldest living relative on either my or FI's side and my only great-grandparent left, and she is getting a special honorary spot in the procession, because she also is really special to me.

maybe984 · December 2010

A lot of weddings I've been to, the grandfather seats himself, but an usher seats the grandmothers right before the parents... and that's kind of how we did it.

I have no living grandparents, and DH has three, but only two were in good-enough health to attend the wedding--- his mom's parents. So, his grandpa seated himself like any other guest and my bridesman/usher seated his grandma and my mom's oldest sister (who is 73 and pretty much like a grandmother to me)... then went back down the aisle 3 minutes later with the MOH and best man(he was so important to me, I made him do double-duty!)

Complicated, yes, but people raved about how adorable the processional was.

So yeah, definitely, if a grandparent is widowed, have an usher walk them down. Or, in the case of a widowed grandfather, maybe it would be cute to have a bridesmaid or a PA walk him down. If a bridesmaid did, she'd have to walk back up the aisle and down again a few minutes later... but depending on the venue and the format of the ceremony, you could do that without it looking awkward or anything.

Enchanted616 · December 2010

I think its really sweet to honor the grandparents. Ushers are just fine to escort widowed or single grandmothers. My uncle is one of our ushers so we will have him escort my grandma.

PaddyB · December 2010

I hadn't really thought about it. We probably won't have them walk down the aisle since there are only two g-ma's left and one doesn't walk so well. Also, we are trying to keep the ceremony time to a minimum.

wittyschaffy · December 2010

We didn't have them walk in but called them out speicifically in our program and table cards. Some of our grandparents don't walk so well these days and having them process would have meant going down a couple of steps. It wasn't a problem to seat them beforehand because there is a small lift at the ceremony site but that would have been a pain for everyone to deal with during a processional so we skipped it.

beka0404 · December 2010

My maternal grandmother is widowed and my BIL (an usher) walked her down the aisle before the mothers. Her companion has difficulty walking and was seated before the guests started arriving. My husband would have seated her, but he seated both his mom and my mom and our church coordiunator suggested that someone else seat my grandmother for time management reasons.

leggwilliams · December 2010

Our ushers are walking our grandparents down right before my mom, FI and his parents, and the bridal party

Steph0871 · December 2010

We thought about doing something, but didn't for a few reasons...We have like 6 sets of people we'd consider 'grandparents' (divorces, etc.) and none of them wanted that extra attention

We could barely convince a few of them to wear the bouts/corsages. haha

That being said, I think it's nice when they are honored. I'd just have the ushers or someone else 'important' seat the grandmothers right before the processional.

FutureMrsSheeler · December 2010

FI will walk down the aisle with the grandparents, and parents, and then walk down the aisle by himself to wait for me!

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