Blended families

I am debating on having a 2nd unity ceremony to include his son. I am not sure if I should just do 3 candles or something else.

My FH has a 10 year old and we were going to use him as ring bearer, but think he's too old for that. He's probably going to be too young to be a GM so I don't know what we will do. Maybe just a guest of honor. He will get a suit and a bout so maybe that'll be ok?

I have a 17 year old son and a 14 year old daughter. He will be a GM and she will be a BM. FH has two sons. one is 11 and the other is 4. The 11 year old will be a GM and the 4 year old will be our ring bearer. We are also including all of the kids in the unity ceremony (sand). All six of us will have a different color of sand and we are using a personalized shadowbox so that we can keep it. I found the perfect song for the unity ceremony. It's about blending two families into one family.

We both have daughters from our previous marriage. My daughter is going to be his best man, wearing a bridesmaid gown, and his daughter is going to be my maid of honor. We're also going to have a sand ceremony.

FH's 14 year old son is the BM, but since his mother is not really in picture, I would love to do some other commitment thing to him. I will see our officiant at end of this month at FG's birthday party. I will be asking her and a few others (singer and piano player who do weddings) for suggestions.

The sand ceremony works really well with kids, and the hand tracing too.

I might have my son walk me down the isle. Also thinking about something for the first dance or the mother son dance.

I have a 2 year old son by a previous long term relationship although FH has been there since LO was 4 months and therefore already thinks of him as his "dada" we will be including a part of the ceremony where LO will be brought up by my parents and FH will say a short vow to him as well. He will also give him a stuffed animal with a James Avery st Christopher necklace for when he is older to remind him he is one of our family.

We will also be doing a dance with him to " hey Jude " - the song he was named after !

Champagne dream - maybe make him a jr groomsman ? I have a younger cousin who is a jr bridesmaid in my wedding

I have a 16 yr old daughter who will be my DOH (daughter of honor/co maid of honor) and a 13 yr old son who will be FH SOH (son of honor/co best man). They will walk down the aisle together preceding my solo entrance and officially give me away. We are also planning a dance just the four of us, me and my son, him and my daughter. Honestly though, so far it had seemed like these things are way more important to me than the kids.

I have a 21 year old Down Syndrome daughter who is the size of a 11-12 yr old girl (she weighs 96 lbs and is tiny), and developmentally about a 10 year old girl - my son just turned 20. We aren't doing any type of special ceremony but they will be in the wedding party. My daughter a jr. bridesmaid, my son a groomsman. At first everybody said I just had to have my daughter as a maid of honor but it isn't going to work because I will need help with my dress and she doesn't have the fine motor skills to help with that (as it is, I have to help her with all hygiene and dressing!) I am looking forward to the 1 day in my life where I will be pampered (I hope).

We are also including them at the reception with the dances. Part of the way through my dance with my dad, FH will dance with my daughter. Then part way through his dance with his mom I will dance with my son.

My daughter and son are also the only bridal party. My son has double duty he is giving me away as well as BM.

My FH has a 6 year old daughter she is a flower girl, we will also present her with a necklace during the ceremony and the Reverend is going to say a few words on blending families

My son is giving me away and then standing with FH like a BM.

My 8 year old son is my escort down the aisle, and then he will unveil me, and go stand behind my FH. I'm also doing a dance with him, but no "special part" of the ceremony.

New step-parent can make vows to child/ren, tokens of family unity can be presented, unity sand celebration -- all are popular with my couples.

I'm so on the fence about including my stepdaughter in the ceremony. While I absolutely love the idea I feel like it's a little overboard for me to recite vows to her...she's five. We thought of doing the sand ceremony but just don't really like the idea of the sand/candle, any of that stuff. The one thing I DID like was the canvas painting! Very reflective of our personalities but playing with paint and a five year old and my dress and his tux and her dress is just way too scary.

With that said, my stepdaughter is our flower girl, and at some point during the reception we will have the DJ announce a tribute song to her "Love is an Open Door" (yes, from the Frozen movie), that's totally been our song since the movie came out-no special dance or anything though, she's five so I don't want too much pressure or anything on her.

My younger son and J's younger son were our witnesses. My older son and dil brought up our rings and did readings. My younger son and dil made the toasts at the reception

I have a DD from a prior relationship. She will be our flower girl. We will also be doing a sand ceremony at which time he will upgrade the necklace he gave her when he proposed. Lastly, they will be doing a daughter baba (her name for him) dance.

My daughter is going to be his "best man" in s bridesmaid dress, and his daughter is going to be my maid of honor. We're also doing a sand ceremony with the 4 of us.