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Lynnie
WeddingWire Administrator October 2016

Keep or Skip: Father walking you down the aisle?

Lynnie, on May 30, 2018 at 1:33 PM

Posted in Wedding Ceremony 85

This week we're playing " keep or skip " with popular wedding traditions! ✔️❌ The traditions around parents blessings and "being given away" have definitely fallen out of favor as weddings (thankfully!) become more modern, but some people still really want that moment with their dad walking down the...

This week we're playing " keep or skip " with popular wedding traditions! ✔️

The traditions around parents blessings and "being given away" have definitely fallen out of favor as weddings (thankfully!) become more modern, but some people still really want that moment with their dad walking down the aisle! What are you doing? Are you keeping or skipping (or modernizing) this ceremony tradition?


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  • Mac2Bee
    Devoted September 2018
    Mac2Bee ·
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    Keeping the walking down the aisle portion. This is one that is very important to me as a way to honor my father and the role he has played in my life thus far.

    There is no "giving away" or verbiage surrounding "who gives this woman to be wed" as I give of myself fully.

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  • He Put A Ring On It 2019
    Devoted September 2019
    He Put A Ring On It 2019 ·
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    Keep. Although I may end up wanting both of my parents walking me down. Its up in the air right now
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  • S
    Super May 2020
    Shari ·
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    Keeping. It's my gift to him.

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  • Danielle K
    VIP June 2019
    Danielle K ·
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    Keeping partially as my mother may be walking with us.

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  • MrsV1027
    Master October 2018
    MrsV1027 ·
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    Keeping. My mom thought I would skip it since it's my 2nd wedding. I was like uh he's still my dad! lol

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  • Heather
    Expert August 2018
    Heather ·
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    My FFIL is walking me down the aisle, as my father passed away years ago. So keeping, in a sense.
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  • OrangeCrush
    Super October 2017
    OrangeCrush ·
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    Keep!!! I have been married twice and would have given anything for my beloved dad to have been there for either. Sadly he had passed.

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  • C
    Savvy September 2019
    Christina ·
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    I'd honestly prefer to walk down myself, or walk in with my fiance, but I'm pretty sure that my parent's feelings would be hurt. So we're thinking of having both sets of parents walk in with us (he and his parents first, then me and my parents).

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  • Shinee
    Expert September 2018
    Shinee ·
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    Keeping. I am excited and blessed my father will be walking me down the aisle.

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  • J
    Devoted June 2018
    Janette ·
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    Keeping, I wouldn't have it any other way! I'm daddy's little princess so I can't even bear the thought of not having him walk me down the aisle.
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  • Stephanie
    Dedicated May 2022
    Stephanie ·
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    100% keeping it. Little about my wedding will matter more to me than that moment of my father walking me down the isle.
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  • Kim
    Dedicated June 2018
    Kim ·
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    I'm definitely having my dad walk me down the aisle! It's something that has been engrained in my head since I was little, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

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  • Kelsey Brielle
    Super June 2022
    Kelsey Brielle ·
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    Skipping. My father was not in my life and I don't want my step dad to do it, I'm walking alone.
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  • queenbee
    VIP October 2018
    queenbee ·
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    Keeping! I couldn’t imagine getting married without my dad walking me down the aisle. We are close. Never once thought about skipping it.
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  • N
    Dedicated August 2018
    Nicole ·
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    Skip. I’m an independent woman, I never belonged to anybody for them to be able to give me away.
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  • SB
    VIP March 2019
    SB ·
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    Keeping! My dad is walking me down the aisle and my stepdad is officiating it. Best of both worlds.

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  • B
    Dedicated September 2018
    BETHANY ·
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    I don't hav a father. My mom will walk me cuz she has always been my mother and father both.
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  • C
    Dedicated September 2019
    Cassandra ·
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    Keep!
    He's my number one champion, one of my favorite friends, and I feel like getting to walk me down the aisle since I am the only kid is something he's always wanted to do. If he didn't walk me down the aisle at have to come up with some other way for him to be a major part of the day because I'm a total daddy's girl so might as well let him walk me.
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  • Lovely Mrs. B
    Dedicated June 2018
    Lovely Mrs. B ·
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    Keeping! My dad is even going to wear a tie I bought him when I was a child!
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  • BB-H
    VIP September 2018
    BB-H ·
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    Keeping. I have a close relationship with my father, and as he is a pastor, he will be officiating our wedding for us, although I don't really consider it "giving away."

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