Ways to incorporate late loved ones in wedding

Keep it very subtle/lowkey so that only you and fiance are aware. While they are missed, not everyone will see a wedding as an appropriate place for a memorial.

We had a table next to the card table with photos, decorated with candles and flowers to commemorate our passed loved ones. I made a framed sign with a bible verse on it. I really loved it. ❤️

My FH’s father passed away summer 2018 and we are honoring him by lighting a candle next to a photo of him at the ceremony. I think it will be a beautiful, but simple moment. We will have a family table with photos, candles, and flowers at the reception too.

We plan on having a memory table with the pics of our loved ones with signage. We’ll be talking with our venue coordinator to see how they’ll be decorating the table.

We’re having a table set up with their photos and taking a moment in our day to honor them. I have two uncles I was close to that passed away who we’d like to honor and my fiancé lost his father last year and grandfather a few years prior that we also want to honor. We opted for a table set up with their photos because we knew they would be there in spirit and wanted other people to be able to see and feel that too.

View Quoted Comment I don’t agree with this at all. You are allowed to honor your passed loved ones at your wedding in anyway you see fit regardless of how other people or your guests may view it. It’s your wedding. Make it as obvious or as subtle as you want. My family is very close so I know they will enjoy seeing the pictures and I’m definitely not concerned if anyone doesn’t like it. 🤷🏻‍♀️


I will be tying two small items from each of my grandfathers who have passed to my bouquet and then we will have a table set up at the reception with pictures. I was very close with both of my grandfathers and it’s really important to me to have them be a part of my wedding in some way.

Im using photos in my bouquet. Etsy has a ton of options for bouquet charms.

Our venue had a wall with shelving in the cocktail/lobby area. We chose family photos to display there, of those who had passed.

This created a little space remembering them, without it intruding into the celebratory feeling.

I'm planning on doing a memory table with a sign and the pictures of people who passed. We just had a groomsmen pass so we definitely want him to be remembered there.

The venue where we booked has a space set up with shelves that they will decorate how we want, and we can put pictures of lost loved ones there. If we wish, they will also put them in the ceremony area while we're there. All of our grandparents are gone, so I like that there is a way to honor their memory and have them there in some fashion.

We placed a photo of his parents at their wedding with their parents and my parents at their wedding with my grandparents (no divorces) to honor both of his grandmothers and one of his grandfathers and my dad, grandfathers, and one grandmother who passed prior to the wedding. I also wore a locket with my dad's picture in it.

I’m not a super big fan of the “memorial” tributes/tables because they feel too somber to me at a celebration. Instead, I’m choosing to honor certain people by incorporating their favorite things or something special about them in different little parts of my decor/day. For example, my maternal grandparents had a bird last name—I’m having two of those birds adorn my wedding cake. Another grandparent loved rock fish and thought it was the only seafood worth eating—I chose that as the fish entree at my wedding. Not everyone will have to know what they mean and go “Aw” or feel sad when they think about them. But it will still be special and I will remember them and that feels right to me.