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We did a small shout-out to my grandfather and DH's mom at our wedding. Honestly, our officiant just added in a little blurb in her intro portion of our ceremony that was something like "We have in our thoughts so-and-so and so-and-so, who are with us in spirit today." I don't remember the exact wording but it was short and sweet and to the point. We didn't want to make a big fuss.
I will say that even that much was enough. My grandmother came up to me after our ceremony and hugged me and told me how touched she was that I remembered my grandpa on my wedding day (He was my mom's step-dad, not my blood grandpa.)
She was your mother and your aunt's sister. I doubt having something small to honor her is really going to make your aunt uncomfortable.
You can add a small charm with her picture on it to your bouquet, leave a symbolic empty chair, light a memorial candle with her picture next to it on the guest book table, make donations to a charity in lieu of favors if she passed from a disease, or write a small something in the program... there are a lot of options and you can make it as public or private as you like. My mother passed away a little less than two years ago so I've thought through all the options already.
We plan to have a memory candle lit during the ceremony along with small pictures of our family (grandparents and FIs brother) who are deceased...
I'm including small picture frames in my bouquet to honor my great grandparents, my great aunt, a deceased grandfather and my Future Husbands grandfathers. We won't announce the information at the wedding but the family will know. I vetoed the empty chair because my great-aunt recently passed and we were very close. So the empty chair thing would probably leave me bawling. We will also have family pictures on display a the reception.
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My biologicall mother died when i was 4. My aunt raised me since and i call her "mom". I dont want pitty or simpathy from anyone, so i dont want to propost a toast or speach to my dead biological mom. What are some ways to honor my biological mom at the wedding without makeing my aunt/mom feel uncomfortable, and without haveing to litteraly say somthing?