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How do step parents enter the ceremony?

Steffany, on November 13, 2015 at 5:18 PM Posted in Etiquette and Advice 0 6

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FH and I are planning on having both of our parents walk each of us down the aisle. His parents are divorced and remarried - should we have their spouses walk as part of the ceremony, after grandparents maybe?

His parents divorced after he and his brother graduated high school, so he isn't very close to his stepparents, but they are both very lovely people who have been extremely welcoming when we've visited and when they've come to visit us.

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Latest activity by 2d Bride, on November 14, 2015 at 2:48 AM

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Staci · on November 13, 2015 at 5:27 PM
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Has anyone else's groom had their parents walk them down the aisle? I don't think I've ever heard of htat.
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Steffany · on November 13, 2015 at 5:32 PM
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I've heard of it a bit over on Offbeatbride. I think it's actually a Jewish tradition. We're not Jewish, but it feels a little less like being 'given away' if his parents are also walking with him.
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Celia Milton · on November 13, 2015 at 5:47 PM
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I had lots of parents walk their children (bride and/or groom) down the aisle, Jewish or not.

If that's the case, the step parents usually don't process, but are seate with the guests, but in the front row. I wouldn't have them process, not would I think they'd expect it. It would be different if the step parents had been in his life since he was really young, but that's not the case.
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Kimi · on November 13, 2015 at 5:54 PM
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We are just seating FH's step-dad & step-mom when the rest of the guests are seated, possibly right before his grandmothers.
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Kathleen · on November 13, 2015 at 7:53 PM
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We were in the same situation. In Filipino culture, the groom will usually walk with his parents. DH wanted to walk with both of his parents, but ended up walking only with his mom (drama, long story). So his dad walked in with his step mom and his step dad was already seated. If his dad also walked with him, we would have just had both step parents already seated in the front.
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2d Bride · on November 14, 2015 at 2:48 AM
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My ex-husband and I walked our son down the aisle, but my wife was just seated in the audience. My son loves her, and she did get a corsage. But she entered his life when he was 19, so he doesn't really think of her as a "parent."

I was standing up front during the ceremony. It was no bigger deal for her to be seated by herself for the ceremony than for the SO of a member of the wedding party to be seated in the audience. Of course, she was seated with me at the reception.
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