Wedding Celebrant ideas on Ways of Honouring Your Parents

Ways to Honour Your Parents

It is a beautiful way to show appreciation for your parents by honouring them on your wedding day. They will already play a special role by being there and possibly by helping out financially. Whether your parents are still living or deceased they deserve something a little extra special for all that they have done for you. There is the obvious way of asking their blessing or including them in the recessional. But there are also some other lovely ideas.

1. Walk down the aisle with the same song as your Mother did.

2. Give a rose to your mother and groom’s mother as you walk down the aisle

3. Use the lace from your Mother’s Wedding Dress to tie a bouquet or place it in a locket.

 4. Instead of tossing the bouquet dedicate it to your Mother.

 5. Ask the Celebrant to give a special mention the Mothers’ or Fathers’ in the Ceremony. The parents could be asked to read a poem or a reading.

6. Dedicate the ceremony to the parents – ‘they have taught us our values and to appreciate what life has to offer, without them we would not be here’.

7.   If a parent is deceased light a candle in remembrance or mention them in a pray.

8.  Incorporate some family photos either on the cake table or as decoration on a tree A family tree.

9.  A special gift could be given to the parents at the reception.

10. The Mothers’ could be asked to be the official witnesses for the ceremony and sign the register.