- weddingspy27
- 4 years ago
- Wedding: December 2015
My wedding is fast approaching, and I need help on deciding whether to involve kids on my wedding. Feel free to leave your advice, thanks!
My wedding is fast approaching, and I need help on deciding whether to involve kids on my wedding. Feel free to leave your advice, thanks!
@weddingspy27: Do you mean as guests, or as flower girl/ring bearer?
I think it would definitely be way special for them. This wedding is important for them too, as their family will be bigger as a result of it. I definitely wouldn’t give them some sort of role, or at least a part in the ceremony.
Are they your kids or someone else’s kids?
@emstar168: I mean as a flower girl/ring bearer, 🙂
@rickhurst35: Someone else’s kids. I don’t have my own yet. Is it a good idea to include them?
@weddingspy27: That’s a personal decision that you’d have to make. Do you want them to be a part of your wedding? Are they special to you?
As a side note: I photograph many, many weddings a year. I hate flower girls and ring bearers. But that’s my personal opinion….
@rickhurst35: I hope you won’t mind me asking, why do you hate them? I just really want to have ideas that would help me decide whether to include them on my wedding.
@weddingspy27: As a photographer….most of the time, they don’t cooperate for pictures. This irritates the bride. The last thing I want to see or deal with is an irritated bride that is already stressed out about other things. This is a personal opinion.
I have one of each in my wedding (they’re my godkids). I’ve had more fun picking out their outfits than picking out my own! My flowergirl is 5 and she is SO EXCITED. It’s a great age for that. Her brother is only 2 1/2 so I’m not holding any great expectations. Basically he’s either going to run down the aisle, or get dragged down by his sister. Whatever happens, happens!
I think you should only involve kids if you have some sort of a relationship with them, don’t have them just for the sake of having a flower girl/ring bearer. Meaning, don’t ask your second cousin’s daughter to be the flower girl if you’ve only met her twice. Your niece whom you adore- that’s a different story.
Thank you for all your insights! Those really helped in one way or another. We finally decided to have a ring bearer and a flower girl for we both believe that regardless of what they’ll do they’ll simply add color and fun to the most special day of our life. My fiance actually started checking out websites for their attire and she forwarded me this website http://www.wallao.com. Their stuffs are cool and I like them as well as their price. Is there anyone here who knows other websites that could be better than wallao.com?
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