Comments on: How to Include Kids in the Wedding Ceremony

on 8/8/2006 We are having our son (helped by grandpa) take care of the rings, and our daughter (who is 4) walk me down the aisle instead of my dad.

on 12/8/2005 Keep the mini-bar locked. Weddings are so notoriously boring for teenagers that they will probably try to drown it all out with alcohol. If it's an open bar, then have the oldest, ugliest member of the bride's family stand there and yell at anyone who comes to close.

on 11/22/2005 My daughter in law tells of a friends wedding that had small children in the ceremony. She said they decorated a child's wagon with white and other customary wedding fabric and ribbons. The 2 children were dressed in wedding attire, and were pulled in the wagon by an older child. When the small children reached the alter, they were passed off to a waiting family member from the ceremony, then returned to the wagon for the recessional. She said it was the cutest thing she had ever seen. We plan to use this for my daughter's wedding.

on 11/22/2005 I incorporated my twin 10 year old cousins in my wedding by having one be a bellringer (who announces when the bride is coming) and the other as a broomster (who carries the broom down the aisle and sets it down when it is time to "jump the broom"--an African wedding tradition). I hope these ideas help another couple.

on 11/22/2005 I attended a wedding where there were three little fairies instead of flower girls. They all wore the traditional white flower girl dress but they had wings, made from wire wrapped in tooling, sewn to the back of their dresses and carried wands, with stars and ribbons on the end. They were very sweat!

on 11/22/2005 My twin nieces (10 yrs old) are going to be in charge of making sure that the gifts are guarded and that cards are adequetly taped to the gifts. Their brother who will be 12 is going to be taking peoples' pictures with a Polaroid I-Zone camera and putting them in the guestbook for people to write next to.

on 11/22/2005 I have two daughters, so I am appointing my older daughter as the ring bearer. She will wear a dress like a flower girl, but be called a ring proffer to conquer the gender title.