Flower girl escort?

Are these women the mother's of the flower girls?

View Quoted Comment No. The flower girls are related by blood

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Then I would find this a little odd. You're basically making them the babysitter during the ceremony. Not an honor.

I was a flower girl helper to my niece in my sister's best friends wedding when I was 23. I was not in the least offended that I was not a bridesmaid and no one found it odd that I helped her. She was 2 at the time. It was also especially hilarious for ceremony pictures because she refused to throw the petals so I had to. We still joke that I was the flower girl.

View Quoted Comment Thank you! That's awesome. I wanted to make my future sisters feel apart of this special day and not left out. I'm glad you had fun.

I wouldn't want to be in charge of shepherding some kid that I barely know. And it probably won't go well, because kids that young aren't going to want to go with strangers.

I was a BM in my brothers wedding and the RB's parents were not in the wedding party - I took care of the RB during the ceremony (good friends of ours and I knew the child), until his complete meltdown and then his mom took over. I would expect the unexpected with smaller children and have their parents on standby somewhere close, most parents expect to be near their children anyway.

Having 5 people walk down at the same time seems a bit much. My flower girl will be just shy of 2. Her mom (my sister) is the MOH so will walk right before her. We joke that MOH will sort of run down the aisle to get ahead of flower girl so flower girl will be "following mommy". I'm also prepared for them to just walk at the same time. At that age I think you have to kind of let go of expectations and just hope for no crying.

I wouldn't have babies and toddlers go down the aisle. The children won't remember, it truly will be meaningless to them. Have their parents dress them up in pretty dresses and take some special pictures with them. Maybe get floral crowns or other flowers for the pictues