Ring Bearer Attire

I don't know if it is technical etiquette or not, but IMO the B&G should pay for anyone in the wedding that is under 18...especially if their parent is in the wedding too. We have FH's sister and her two children (age 14 & 17) in our bridal party. Therefore, we are paying for her two children's attire. My reasoning for this decision was: 1) I felt it was unfair to ask her to pay for three people's attire and 2) I personally felt like it wasn't right assuming parents of underage kids would pay for their attire. However, if your FSIL wants to pick out and pay for your ring bearer's outfit, I'd say let her, lol.....those expenses add up!

Generally, his parents would pay for his attire. It's just like when you ask your FSIL to be a bridesmaid. She will buy her dress.

That being said, there are circumstances where the bride and groom can pay for one or more of their attendants. It really just depends on the people involved and the situation. If your FSIL cannot afford her dress and the ring bearer's outfit, it's nice when/if the bride/groom can offer help with that.

My niece is the flower girl and my brother bought her dress, but I’m also paying for all of the bridesmaid and groomsmen outfits so I don’t think they saw it as an issue.

I had to pay for everything when my two boys were ring bearers for my cousins wedding.

I’ve been wondering about this too and from what I understand generally the parents pay for the flower girl/ring bearer attire. However, my FG/RB will both be about 18 months for the wedding so I was thinking about “gifting” them the attire since they’ll be too little to remember they were even there so any gift is really for the parents lol. I’ll give them a little memento too

From my experience, typically the parents of the child buy for them. That being said, if you'd like to offer to pay, chip in X amount or pay for some of the attire, that's totally up to you.

Using it's the parents of the ring bearer that pay but the bride/groom can pay