Seating the parents?

I would think they could just seat themselves before the ceremony. Especially if you have reserved seating in the front. Usually people pick sides which is a little silly to me but it happens so they'd probably just go to whatever side their family is on just in the front. I would just tell your step mom that they can seat themselves in the reserved seating at the front.

I have no idea how this stuff works. I think I have only seen the parents walked in before the groom comes in?

For our wedding, our parents were just like guests, they seated themselves and just waited for the ceremony to begin lol.

I think they get a reserve seating, just make sure they know.

Yea that was my thought as well and how I had envisioned things happening. I think she's concerned about not wanting to sit near my mom... well, because she's petty and seems to be creating a lot of drama.

We had chairs for our ceremony. I made name tags to reserve seats in the order I wanted our VIPs to seat. Everyone greeted by staff and sat down before the ceremony.

I'd reserve rows at the front for families and have them walk in before the bridal party. Family members are not usually part of the procession, they are usually the last ones to sit before the procession officially starts. Traditional etiquette says the order is - groom's grandparents, bride's grandparents, groom's mother and father, bride's stepmother, bride's mother. If your father isn't walking with you will he be walking in with your step mother? Have you asked your mother who she would like to walk in with? Do you have a brother, does she have a brother or relative she would like to walk in with?

I know I've just listed some traditional etiquette guidelines, but it is most important that everyone in your family feels happy and comfortable and respected, so feel free to divert from that if it would make people more happy to arrange things in another order (or feel free to use traditional etiquette rules as an excuse for dictating an order if they are unable to resolve things themselves!)

They normally seat themselves if you don't have ushers

We're having reserved seats, but parents/family are just seating themselves before the processional begins (no bridal party, so it's just FH & the officient, then my dad and I).

@WWJo, my mom would walk with her husband, and my dad would walk with my stepmom. FH's parents would walk in together. My grandma doesn't have anyone to walk with, so I'd probably have my little brother walk her in.

Okay so, I didn't want to do any of this. My mom wanted to be escorted, the DOC from the venue kind of fixed everything to work out.

I believe our officiant walked first. Then H's parents walked up the aisle together and sat. Then my mom was escorted by my brother and his fiancé ( I don't know why both, so don't ask). H walked up at some point, I think. I don't really know.

I had no BP, so that was pretty much the whole processional, I guess.