Comments on: Giving grams (and gramps) a special role to play

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 10:48:59 +0000

I know someone who arranged for her grandparents, who couldn’t travel to the wedding, to participate via satellite feed. They set up a video screen and camera in the nursing home, and one at the wedding, and the bride got to speak to her grandparents, who watched the whole wedding as it was happening, and grandpa even gave a short speech to all the guests. I don’t know how much it cost to do this, but the bride said it didn’t cost as much as she thought it might.

By: Glinda

Glinda — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 21:07:23 +0000

We did a dance of all married couples, with the DJ calling out years married, and one by one, the couples left the dance floor based on the number of years they had been married. Last on the floor (as I sort of selfishly knew they would be) my grandparents, who at the time had been married for 57 years. They got a standing ovation and a special bouquet.

By: LL

LL — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:53:15 +0000

Since my father is not around anymore to walk me down the aisle, my paternal grandfather will do the honors.

By: chill

chill — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:57:29 +0000

We honored our grandparents by giving them all corsages and bouts to wear. We also included their names on our programs with our parents and the wedding party.

By: tto

tto — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 03:00:08 +0000

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By: LadySun

LadySun — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:07:53 +0000

At our wedding, we (not by request) had one of those anniversary dance things, where married couples get up and dance and you ask them to leave based on how long they’ve been together. Well, my grandparents “won”, and they did say some very lovely things about staying together and making it work, and it was actually very sweet and very touching.

(It was still kind of tacky, though, because my husband’s side of the family is so rife with divorce that no one made it past the 10-year mark in the dance. Besides, only one of his two remaining grandparents even made it to the wedding.)

However, I have a fantastic picture of one of my uncles REALLY dancing it up with my grandmother, and it’s one of my absolute favorite pictures from my wedding. So I guess for me, it’s enough that they were there, but some of my most highlighted memories of my wedding are of them.

By: Tara

Tara — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:13:44 +0000

My religion requires that two witnesses sign the marriage contract…. And I can’t imagine anyone better for that role that my grandparents, who have been happily married for over 60 years!

By: Never teh Bride

Never teh Bride — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:14:51 +0000

Aw, how sweet of you, 7nina. I bet she’ll like that a lot!

By: Twistie

Twistie — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:57:40 +0000

I would have done something for the grands when we got married, but alas! we were both out of grands to honor.

That picture gave me a huge smile. It’s exactly what a wedding photo should look like. It captures a moment of love and joy that deserves to be shared with the world.

By: bijoux du Jour

bijoux du Jour — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:29:30 +0000

Only one of my grandparents was still alive when I got married, Nana was treated as one of the wedding party with a corsage and special place at the table with my parents. I wanted to pay homage to all our parents and grandparents, so we got reprints made of all their wedding portraits and framed them in similiar silver frames to be displayed on the cake table. It certainly got a lot of compliments and started a lot of conversations.