Alternatives To Walking Down The Aisle?

We're also walking down together! For me personally, I think focusing on him will be everything I need to not stress too much about the aisle and walking past a bunch of people. Granted, we're only going to have about 35 guests so the aisle will be short, but still..

View Quoted Comment Awesome that you are also walking down the aisle with your fiance! And great suggestion! Me focusing on my fiance will definitely help me as well, though I'm thinking I'll still be a bit overwhelmed lol. We're planning on between 75-100 guests, trying to decide whether to put more chairs per row (without being ridiculous) and have less rows, or find some other way to lessen the impact of everyone staring at us. I'm confident that once we get to the altar, I'll be totally fine, it's just the walk to the altar that'll be interesting. If I were to put more chairs per row to make the aisle shorter, how many do you think would be enough?

Walking together is a great idea, you could also just be greeting guests as they come in and casually walk up to the altar when it is time for the ceremony.

We walked together! Much more comforting & more cute pics.

I really want to walk down with my fiance, no one else... but he wants me to walk alone and to join him at the altar. I won this debate after telling him that the 'walking down' portion won't matter that much because of our 1st look lol.

However: I'll give him what he really wants because it's important to him: he wants me to enter alone (or with whoever I want but him LOL) ! I offered a compromise: he'll walk alone halfway then he stops, I'll enter alone, walk alone halfway, finally we'll walk down the 2nd half together hand-in-hand or arm-in-arm.

That way, we both get the 2 things that matter the most to us as a unit (to me: walking with him hand in-hand or arm-in-arm) and to him ( I'm entering and walking a few steps alone towards him). Win-win compromise.

View Quoted Comment Ooh I love this idea!! Thank you!! I'll definitely mention this one to my fiance to get his thoughts.

View Quoted Comment Love it! My fiance and I were always planning on walking down the aisle together, I totally agree that it's more comforting and the pictures would turn out adorable! Though I'm fairly shy and a bit overwhelmed by the thought of everyone stare at us as we walk. Did you find that when you both walked down the aisle, were you more focused on your husband walking next to you? Or did you notice guests all looking at you?

View Quoted Comment That is such a great compromise!! I love that you're getting to do what you each wanted.

View Quoted Comment We got nervous when we peeked around the corner but then when we walked we *might* have glanced at guests but then quickly focused on walking to the officiant. Once up there, our eyes were really on each other (or officiant).

View Quoted Comment I feel the same way you do: the thought of 80-90 people staring at me makes me super anxious (even though we only invited people the other partner met) but holding his hand will calm me down and will make me feel good.
We are having less rows by doing a circular seating:


At his request, to help me with my nervousness.
He even wants to make the processional easier by standing near the last row rather than halfway, it will shorten the durarion of 'alone time' , we will be hand in hand before 'walking through' the last row. I accepted because he will still get what he wants: me entering alone, walking alone towards him, he loves the symbol of the bride joining her groom,as a guest, no matter how long it lasts lol. I want to give him that moment.Plus: he said we will get more cute pics: when I'm walking down towards him + hand in hand 😍.Our photographer told me that the best thing to do to calm my nerves before joining him: "focus on him, look at him and no one else".

If you're ok with time have your entrance be at the same time and have guests walk down the aisle to you... depending on how many guests you have. You could be right front and center with your future husband. Eyes on him as everybody enters.

View Quoted Comment Good to hear! Thank you for your perspective, that definitely helps!

View Quoted Comment I love the circular seating idea! I'm bummed I can't really do that for my wedding, since our ceremony site overlooks a beautiful lake, and we want everyone to be able to see the lake in the background. Aww, I LOVE that idea where he stands near the last row! You definitely get the best of both worlds in that case: he still gets to see you walk towards him, and you get to walk the entire aisle with him. I'll have to mention that one to my fiance to see what his thoughts are! Also, great advice from your photographer!

View Quoted Comment That's a cool idea, to have guests walk down the aisle to us! Thank you for sharing that idea!