Honoring Deceased Loved Ones

I'm so sorry for you and your FH's loss! In addition to a prayer what if you reserved a seat for him during the ceremony? You could put a photo in a frame on him on the seat or put flowers in the seat. You could also set up a table at the reception with photos of all of your loved ones who have passed with a sign that says "You Should Be Here" or "I Know You'd Be Here Today If Heaven Wasn't So Far Away". They have a ton of options on Etsy if you are interested.

My FH and I are doing this for our loved ones who have passed; my great grandmother and my FH's grandparents on his mother's side. My father has also passed and I purchased photo charm on Etsy for my bouquet that I will be putting a photo of him in and attaching it to my bouquet.

View Quoted Comment Thank you for those ideas! I think saving a seat with flowers may just be a tad depressing, but we will definitely still have his presence there somehow. Will definitely be looking on Etsy!

I'm sorry for your loss! I am sewing a piece of my dad's old blue shirt into the inside of my dress in the shape of a heart as my something blue. He's been gone 10 years now so I want something to honor him but not necessarily make it super sad for my mom and family. That way its just for me and the pictures. Maybe you could do something like that?

View Quoted Comment Yes! I still want it to be a happy day, my fiancé does have his father’s gold chain that he wears everyday and he has been thinking of maybe having his driver’s license in his pocket to just have him with him.

We are having a remembrance table at our wedding similar to this maybe a few pictures. I'm sorry for your families loss.

View Quoted Comment So sweet and a good idea!

We did reserve chairs in the front row and we placed a single rose on them during the service for our family that has passed. We also did a remembrance table and I had a bouquet charm and I bought my husband a lapel pin to wear with picture in it from Etsy.

View Quoted Comment Love the lapel idea! I will definitely look into that, thank you!

Have you asked your fiance if this would be something he would want? (My dad passed 8 years before we got married and I was an emotional mess on our wedding day. If there had been an empty chair, etc., I would have broken down, curled up in a ball, and cried.)

View Quoted Comment My husband loved it!!!! He cried when I gave it to him because he has lost both of his parents and this was his first wedding.

View Quoted Comment I’m not doing an empty chair, that’s way too depressing, but of course we have talked about different things that we can do to honor his father’s memory.

View Quoted Comment Aw, glad he loved it, the perfect little touch that means so much.

My husbands dad passed away suddenly 11 months before our wedding. We had a memorial table with just a photo of him, little sign that says this was in honor of him, and a pretty candle. We looked into other ideas but in the end my husband felt it was better to honor him in a simple way instead of drawing more attention to the fact he is not here and make him more sad. It was already a hard day for him and we didn’t want to trigger anything else.

View Quoted Comment Yeah that makes complete sense, we’ll definitely be honoring his memory but not in a way that’s overbearing.