Having grandparents at your wedding is a very special thing. Many brides and grooms might only be able to invite some of their relatives to their wedding. On the other hand, Tanner and Lyndsey were lucky to have four members of their grand family not only at their wedding but also taking part in it.
Tanner and Lyndsey wanted to get married in September as they planned their wedding for 2019. They wanted their grandparents to be at this important event but didn’t want them to be just another face in the pews. They had been to many weddings, but their grandparents had never been there. At their wedding, it would be different. Even more so because their four grandparents, both maternal and paternal, were all still alive.
The bride was looking for wedding ideas when she saw that another couple had included the bride’s grandparents in their wedding. It was the best way for Lyndsey to get ideas. The bridge then asked each of the four lovely women if they would like to be flower girls at her wedding party. They were obviously surprised. This was usually the job of younger family members and relatives, who had to be forced to walk down the aisle sheepishly and carelessly while essentially dropping a basket of flowers. It’s a bit of a mess but also a tradition. Grandma, do you think you could fill those tiny shoes? All four of them agreed at once.
The finished picture shows how happy and in love both generations were, especially on such a special day.
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Natalie Caho, the wedding photographer, was able to catch a very special moment as the bridesmaids started walking down the aisle in powder blue dresses and white clutches with their names on them. The bags said, “Here comes the bride,” and each flower girl had to throw petals down the aisle as she walked. Caho took a great picture of each woman throwing white flowers at the wedding guests as they smiled and laughed.
“We don’t have any little kids in our family, and to be honest. I thought my sassy grandparents would be even cuter, and it was,” the bride-to-be said of her decision to include. And honour this small procession of matriarchs from her and her husband’s families. They are very important to me, so I was glad to spend the day with them.
Most of the time, the gig is for the youngest toddler in the family. Most weddings have a three-year-old with suspenders and a tuxedo jacket which needs fruit snacks and Goldfish to get to the altar. Kathleen Brown, the oldest flower girl, didn’t need to be told to do something. She walked down the aisle with her walker covered in flowers and dressed up for the event. She didn’t care that she was old. The bride said of her great-grandmother, “She holds our family together and is never afraid to tell us the truth.” It was a huge blessing to have known and loved my great-grandmother.
She wrote on social media, “I’ve seen a lot of beautiful flower girls in my time, but these four women take the cake.” Joyce, the grandmother on the father’s side, was 72 years old, and Betty, the grandmother on the mother’s side, was 76 years old. And Kathleen, the great-grandmother on the mother’s side, was 90 years old.
The five women were instantly popular on the internet. People watched as they excitedly threw their bouquets and walked in style down the aisle. Everyone was very impressed with their performance, especially the bride and groom, who were smiling at their families. Including the women was the right thing to do. There’s no doubt that this was an event that everyone there will remember for a long time.
Especially the Internet. Caho’s pictures went viral immediately, and everyone praised her ability to show the flower girls at their most beautiful and innocent. Each grandmother was photographed holding hands with the bride and looking lovingly at their family.
“Today, my email was full of journalists I never thought I’d talk to. But they heard about how sweet it was that FOUR of @lyndseygrantraby’s grandmothers were flower girls at her wedding,” Caho said after the story went viral. She then told brides-to-be that they should take risks with their weddings. “Just do it if you’re on the fence about doing something different at your wedding,” she wrote. Even more so when it means so much to you and your family like this did.” When Lyndsay and Tanner invited their grandmothers to their special day, it was clear that they had taken this advice to heart.