Standing Guest or Sitting Guest?

They usually stand in church at an outside venue I think it is also ettiquette for the guest to stand not as the bridal party walks but when the bride comes to get ready to walk that is when the guests will stand. My guests will be standing for the entire ceremony because we will be on the lawn below a foot bridge adn they will be looking down during the quick ceremony we will have a few chairs set up for those in need of seting but the majority will be on the foot bridge!

I think it would be easier to have them stand to see you than to try to turn around in their seats. At least standing, they can fully move to turn. I think ours will stand.

I assumed it probably is etiquette and I am having a church wedding but Idk I just feel like it would make me even more nervous and we are planning for a large wedding 200 people or so....idk I will have to research it a little more

@KimS true... I didn't think of that.

My guest would be standing for the entire ceremony with a few seats for ppl who might not be able to stand for that entire time frame (20 mins)... I believe it all depends on your preference and what u want for your wedding... no need to do smthn simply bc its tradition :-)

I think it would be hard to get people to not stand. It's so engrained in people that you stand when the bride comes down the aisle that I think they might do it out of habit.

Well I'm not sure you will be able to stop them, lol. At every wedding I have been to, people have just stood, they haven't been told to. I believe it's a sign of respect for the bride.

Yea I agree. That is what happened at my best friends wedding everyone just started standing with no instruct to do so.

I think people will stand regardless. People just have it in there head they should do that. However, if you don't want it- I read somewhere that people will watch the Mother of the Bride and follow suit. If she stays seated then most people will stay seated as well. One reason you have people stand is to have them feel like they are participating in the ceremony. (also so they can see the beautiful bride!)

Yea I just wasn't sure what I wanted and I guess I probably should just have them stand.

I'm also planning to seat the few guests who might have trouble standing on an aisle seat so that they aren't blocked by the standing guests.

I don't believe you can controll this. I have never seen people instructed to stnad they just do. When the bride comes out, people stand. I don't think you can control that. and I think it would be weird to ask people to say seated

I agree with everyone, it is something people automatically do at a wedding.

I do know one bride who got pissed that everyone stood when she walked in, of course there had not been any instructions to do differently. It was about 20 years ago and my brother's wedding to his first wife. She had a pissed off look on her face as she walked in and up to the altar. I think it was later in the evening when I learned the reason why, I thought to myself it was ridiculous.

I believe it also signals the beginning of the mass

People will stand anyway, and if I don't tell them to, they will assume I just forgot.

Well at ours people will be standing because we are not allowed to have chairs at our place of ceremony. Getting married under the St Louis Arch, so that our guest can be comfortable I asked the ones that I thought would need a seat to bring a blanket. And the groomsmen are to help the ones that need it to stand back up.