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Blended Families, how will you include the kids

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Mrs. Juliana, on March 19, 2019 at 3:05 PM

I’m just curious to see how the other brides will be including the children of a blended family into the wedding ceremony.

My daughter from a previous relationship will be 10 and for her to feel included we ask for her input on some ideas, ask her opinions ect. We also wanted her to feel included in the ceremony so we will be doing the sanding ceremony and we are all looking forward to
it. My FH and I have a soon to be 3 year old son who will also have his flask as well which should make the ceremony interesting.

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Soon2Bmrsp · on March 20, 2019 at 11:41 AM
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We are having our children in our wedding (they are all 17 and older) and then we are including them in the Unity Candle Ceremony by allowing them to light their own candles-unifying us all.
1 of my friends just got married and did a unity puzzle where each family had a puzzle piece that they held and it created a family puzzle which was nice.
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Ciera · on March 20, 2019 at 3:36 PM
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My son will be 13 and is walking me down the aisle (my father passed away 4 years ago). My daughters (9 & 6) will be my only bridesmaids and we will all participate in a sand ceremony. We have made sure the kids feel included throughout the entire planning process because we see this as unifying our family and we want the kids to feel as excited and important on that day as we do!
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Renée · on March 20, 2019 at 3:45 PM
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We have 4, 2 of his and 2 of mine. Ours are 14 and older.

Including them by having them in the wedding party as bridesmaids and groomsmen. They also picked the colors they wanted (from a range we had already chosen) and girls picked their own style of dresses.

We are also doing a commitment to the children during the ceremony, but asking for no response from them and not doing any sort of unity ceremony.

Blended families can be really tough. We’ve been living together for 4 yrs now and it’s just now kind of settling down some. We weren’t sure if the kids would even be in it but they want to and we’re really happy about that.
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Renée · on March 20, 2019 at 3:47 PM
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That must be really tough. I deal with similar issues. I’m glad you’re still including him as you can and I know that will be hard for him and your fh.
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Kimberly · on January 14, 2020 at 10:32 PM
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We will include our kids in the ceremony as well. I have an 8 year old daughter who will be 9 when we marry and he has 16, will be 17 when we marry, twins (boy & girl). Big age gap. His daughter will stand up for me as maid of honor and his son will stand up for him as best man. My daughter will serve as flower girl/ring holder and stand up with me as well.
We want to do a unity ceremony of some kind with all 5 of us but haven’t decided what that will be yet.
His kids are full time with him (their mother passed away when they were very young) so it will be the 5 of us always. We are buying a house this spring Before the oldest go to college and then wedding next spring. We want to make sure everyone is included and a part of our family unit.
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