Wedding Blog

I am getting married in 3 weeks—it is the second wedding for both of us, and one of the highlights is that we have all of our children in the wedding party. My bridesmaids are my two daughters and his two daughters (ages 15-23), and the groomsmen are his two brothers, my son, and a friend.

My fiance had a child when he was very young, and that child was adopted and raised by the mother’s aunt/uncle. He and the child had contact a few times about 10 years ago, but a relationship didn’t develop. They have very recently come into contact again, and are developing a relationship.

So my fiance’s son will be attending the wedding, and we are trying to find a ’place’ to include him in the wedding party/ceremony. At this late stage I don’t want to add another bridesmaid to make him a groomsman, and he’s 28 years old, so I don’t know that making him a ring bearer would be a good idea (although he’d be willing to do it, LOL).

He lives in another city, so our wedding weekend will be the first time that most of my fiance’s family will meet him. So, obviously we’re a bit concerned that a lot of attention will be going to him and the situation. We want to include him, but don’t know him very well yet, and don’t want the attention focused too much away from us, our special day, and our other children. But we do want to acknowledge him in some way and have him be a part of the wedding.

Any ideas???

two-zees

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