Honouring your Deceased Parent(s) at your Wedding
December 10, 2008 by Christine Gooding
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I can’t imagine my parents not being there for every important milestone of my life but I know others have not been as fortunate as me. There are ways of honouring your deceased parent(s) at your wedding.
There are a lot of ways to honour them:
- One popular way to remember loved ones is to place flowers on an empty seat at the ceremony.
- Write a message in the ceremony program in memory of your dad
- Read a poem in his honor or play one of his favorite songs at the reception.
- Make an announcement about why you’re playing it beforehand.
Have you got other ideas that you can share with our readers who may be struggling to find ways on how they can remember their deceased parent(s) at one of the most important moments of their lives.
I honored my mom by having some roses in my bouquet, her favorite flower. I had wanted to have a picture of her (and my father-in-law, who passed away when my husband was a child) at the book signing table but it made my stepmom uncomfortable (nevermind that she and my dad had been married for over a decade already!), so I did something that just my husband and I were aware of. I wish I could have done something more obvious but didn’t want to deal with the drama, and we’re both fine with having done something personal to us anyway.