In memory of

I'll be doing a photo frame collage. We've both lost our parents, he's lost two brothers and recently a sister, I lost my cousin/bestfriend and my grandmother. Here are a a couple i'm thinking of..Probably the more rustic one will be the one

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We are putting out a picture of each loved one and lighting a candle

I will be doing quite a bit for my loved ones that passed away both my great grandmas one passed in 2001 and the other 2004, my great grandpa passed away in 2017, my grandpa who passed late 2017 and my sister and nephew who both passed in 2018 and fh grandma passed in 2009 ( he wasn’t close to her)
For all the grandparents and sister and nephew I will be lining the isle with pictures of each of them. For example the first row on both sides will be my sister and then next will my nephew and so on. There is going to be a lot more touches of my sis and nephew as they we killed in a tragic car accident and killed instantly. I have 2 bouquets made for my sis one for the chair and it is the exact one she would have carried and then the other for the cemetery which will incorporate one of my wedding colors and one of hers. Then I have boutonnière made for my nephew that will sit on his chair. My ring bear will be wearing red chucks in honor of my nephews favorite color. I will be wearing my sister hair pins that she had for her wedding and lastly we will have a video play of pictures for them. Once the ceremony is over i want the pictures that used to lined the isle to be moved to a bench and have a sign that says in memory of or something similar.

My hubby was against any memories because he didn’t want to be sad or cry (or upset his brother). So everyone in heaven was with us in thought!

I think something like this/ similar to this would be nice with photos of your loved ones, during the ceremony as well you and your FH can hold one candlestick and together light the number of candles for each loved one that’s lost or after the ceremony (or even as your exit from the reception) you can invite your guest to come outside and for each member lost you can release a sky lantern (it makes great photos too) ..... you can also get small picture frames to wrap around your flowers

You can also incorporate some of their favorite songs during the reception

We're doing a lantern release in Jamaica over the water.

My family is prone to tears already so we wanted to avoid anything too somber, so we are having a display of family member's wedding photos at the ceremony to include both our living and deceased family members.

I'm trying to brainstorm for this too - my grandparents have all passed away, as have 3 of FH's. I'd really like to do something like bell jars with an item from each person (grandma's nursing cap, grandfather's barber shears, etc). I could totally come up for things for my side, but FH's grandparents lived on the other side of the country and weren't as close, so I think he's a little apprehensive on what to include.

Im using bouquet charms!

https://www.etsy.com/shop/Weddingbouquetcharms?ref=yr_purchases

And i'm also getting my FH memorial cufflinks like this:

My condolences to you for your losses. My grandfather passed away in January. So i have his picture on my bouquet. I absolutely love it. Maybe you can do that for you father and for the rest have a memory table or roses or picture frames on empty seats at your ceremony.