Procession for ceremony

It’s pretty typical to have the parents and/or grandparents walk in the procession. My stepdad walked my mom down the aisle then circled back around and walked me. My MIL was escorted by her father, my wife’s grandpa.

Yup, like Caytlyn said. It's really common especially for parents to walk down.

Between FH and I we have 8 sets of grandparents, so we won't be including them in the procession, but I do plan to have my stepmother, MIL, and mom be walked down (especially since we aren't having a wedding party).

In some older wedding circles I've heard that the seating of the MOB is kind of the unofficial start of the wedding.

My FH is going to escort our moms down the aisle, but at my sister's wedding each mom's other son son walked them down (so my 2 half brothers walked their respective moms down, and BIL had his brother walk his mom down). There's lots of options!

My husband's parents are divorced and only his mom walked in the processional. My father-in-law doesn't like attention and my husband didn't feel the need to include in the processional. None of my grandparents walked in the processional though. My husband thought it would seem weird because none of his are alive.

We're actually having the wedding party escort close family members as we have a nontraditional gendered wedding party it felt off to have bride and groom side escort each other and genders match up well for escorting close family members. We're having our parents sat and siblings and FH is escorting his sister who is officiating. It works for us. You're free to do this as you see fit.

I include parents and my brother and his wife with the same music the wedding party walked to

You can include them the way you and your partner want, you don't have to include them if you want and can add whoever you want I'm not married yet. I think I'm in the minority but our parents won't "process". Mine are divorced, have another SO. I didn't decided this because of the divorce but coz I'm not close to the SOs and I don't even want to bond with them, even though I DON'T disapprove these relationships. I feel so strongly that I would IMMEDIATELY start a huge fight against anyone ( other than my partner of course) who would try to criticize it 🙂. It may sound selfish but hey!!Bottom line: do what you want: an untraditional processional doesn't make a marriage unvalid.

• You can include them the way you and your partner want, you don't have to include them if you don't want and you can add whoever you want.
  
• I'm not married yet. I think I'm in the minority but our parents won't "process". Mine are divorced, have another SO. I didn't decided this because of the divorce but coz I'm not close to the SOs and I don't even want to bond with them, even though I DON'T disapprove these relationships. I feel so strongly that I would IMMEDIATELY start a huge fight against anyone ( other than my partner of course) who would try to criticize it 🙂. It may sound selfish but hey!!
• Bottom line: do what you want: an untraditional processional doesn't make a marriage unvalid.

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View Quoted Comment I’m with you on that! We were thinking of just doing it how we wanted, I was more curious of how people were going about it. My fiancé’s parents were never married and both have SOs so we were back and forth about it but FH is close with both their SO and I really would like my mom to walk down even tho she isn’t in the wedding party haha

View Quoted Comment Don't worry about including mom in the processional because she isn't in the WP.like Caytlyn said parents typically walk down the aisle. Same about the uncle walking down mom.
Plus nobody will notice how traditional the procession will be.

It’s taken forever to get a 4th bridesmaid, so I have 4 bridesmaids and 4 groomsmen
I had to replace twice a bridesmaid for his long time best friend he calls his brother. Well they had baby together in April broke up in November. Then he found a girl that I really liked her. Within a month they were engaged so I had to ask her if she couldn’t be in the wedding which really messes up his daughter being a flower girl I apologize about the long post just need help I asked my step sister in law because I just love her I also asked my step niece who is 10 to be a junior bridesmaid their son who is 6 but idk if they have jr groomsmen because we were supposed to have his best friend daughter Izzy born a week after his sisters son so now what should I do?

View Quoted Comment Are you set on having each side even? We don’t have an even number and I am putting two groomsmen w one bridesmaid to make it even. We also have 2 jr groomsmen and 1 jr bridesmaid

It's typical for parents to enter during the end of the 30 mins (music plays this whole time) prior to your entrance. After all guests are seated and before bridesmaids enter.

Yep it is absolutely part of the processional that the parents and grandparents are part of it walking down before the wedding party does.