anyone getting married to someone with a child- need ceremony ideas to include his daughter

The daughter can come up and sign part of the official documents at the signing of the register. Yes you need two witnesses for the license but your officiant will give you 'the record of marriage' part of the license and anyone can sign, print or make their mark! Warn your wedding photographer to be on the alert for these wonderful moments.

and yes, Typically, couples may give children a gift right after they exchange their own rings and vows - usually a necklace, medallion, or ring - along with a hug and an "I love you." I think it would be nice to surprise her.

You can also do a sand photo frame in which the daughter can pick the color of the sand, and You have yours... and each year on your anniversary you can do a family pic (just wherever) and replace it.

http://www.theforeverframe.com/

I have children. We are including them into the ceremony this way. Where most people have a unity candle or such we are doing a planting of the tree type of thing. Our theme is Trees. My guy and I will each put a scoop of dirt in the tree, then my daughters will come up and each put a scoop in, and then my guy and me together are going to water it. This tree will be planted at our home later. He will also include them in his vows. I should also include this: I will be surrounded with family with this wedding (something that wasn't the case the first go around) so daughters are in my bridal line, brothers are in groomsmen line, grandson and great niece are rb/fg, nephew is one of the ushers. I've included everyone as much as possible!

As the parent of a children that age- I wouldn't suprise her. She will probably be nervous to be standing up at such a formal event and then Suprise!

Frankly, I think you are better off including her in decisions from the beginning. Get her invovled in some of the wedding plans- let her help choose flowers, maybe linen colors. Of course, let her choose her dress, and it wouldn't hurt to let her help either choose yours or choose your jewelry/accessories together.

I have a 10 year old & we are doing a sand unity. My groom, my daughter, & I will all pour a different color of sand in a vase which means we are becoming 1!

Oh, I almost forgot, My daughter is my Jr. Bridesmaid 2!

I am having my son as a ring bearer because he said that is HIS job once I told him... lol but I couldn't think of anything else to include him. I like the gift idea. I declined on the sand ceremony to include him because the sand will be EVERYWHERE (he is not that good with putting things in one spot on has a steady hand). But I let him know what color he is wearing (which will be blue cause if it was his way, it would be red) and he is keeping up with his measuring (he wants to get fitted already)... lol

We have three children and our 9 year old son is my FH's Jr. Groomsman, our 5 year old daughter will be one of our Flowergirls and our 2 year old son will be our Ring Bearer which will be lead down the aisle by my soon to be neice (she is 14) who is my Jr. Bridesmaid.

I am gaining a 7 year old step daughter at my wedding. We let her be involved in the wedding from the start... she picked her dress, FG basket, what type of petals, etc. She also is carrying our rings since she wanted a bigger job too. During the ceremony she is getting a necklace we had designed for her and we are doing unity sand to mark our merging as a family. I would not surprise her with anything the day of the wedding. It is just too much for a child that young. Personally I am not for having a child say any vows... they are too young to know what they are saying exactly.

My FH has a 9 year old daughter (that I adore). I gave her the option of being a flower girl, or a jr bridesmaid, and she chose jr bridesmaid

My FH and Myself both have kids they are participating in the ceremony as groomsmen and bridesmaids as well as we are doing a sand ceremony as well.

Thanks for the advice. She is going to be my Jr. bridesmaid. She picked her dress and has been helping me look at different fun vendors like cake and looking for accessories. She is very excited about the wedding which is super cute! I don't think we are into the sand idea for our venue but it seems like a good idea for others. We were just wanting to say some vows to her- from us, but can't find anything we love online yet!

My 13 was going to be a BM. My 2 year is one of my FGs. There are several ways out there to include them in "family" unity candle ceremonies. I think the necklace, ring, bracelet idea is a very neat idea.

Wouldn't work in this case, but my fiance's 4 year old son is walking me down the aisle (along with my father). I wouldn't make it a surprise though - I think that would be a lot for an adult to handle, let alone a 9-year-old.

We have 4 children between us to include in our wedding. We are having a sand unity ceremony in which each of us is going to have simple "vows" to our step-children. Something like "I vow unconditional love, a shoulder to cry on, and to be here no matter what. To be a mentor and friend..." I'm still working on mine but you get the idea. Also FH's 11 year old son is going to do a reading in our ceremony. My 7 year old daughter is going to be our flowergirl/jr bridesmaid. I hope this helps!

I have 2 teen age daughters and he has 3 older children from previous marriages not adopted by him but claims them . And he has a 10 year old blood son. We are having one of the older daughters do a reading during the ceremony and the other older daughter will be taking candid photos. The 2 sons will be standing up in the wedding. As well as my 2 teenage daughters are standing up . He has 2 grand children and they are our flower girl and ring bearer. Then I have a young man that is like a son to me that will be walking me down the isle. At the wedding we are doing a unity candle and at the reception we are doing a sand ceremony that includes all of our children , grand kids and us. We got lucky with our DJ. She is an officiant and will be doing our sand ceremony.