Ideas for how to honor family members who’ve passed?

Please be careful about displaying photos. I was at a wedding where photos were displayed and it was upsetting to see those faces for some people. I have never understood this, frankly. I don't try to turn your funeral into my wedding, why are turning a wedding into a funeral?

I've lost all of my grandparents, and FH has lost all but one and his mom. He and his mom had an estranged relationship so he didn't want a memorial and have to include her in it. We've decided on our officiant making brief prayer for "those who couldn't join us" at the beginning of the ceremony.

Ok so my aunt had her wedding not to long ago and they dmsaved seats fir the passed grandparents with their pictures on it in the front. One on each side. One for each family. They also had a memorial inside the venue on a shelf with pictures and flowers and candles and a piece of wood above it carved "you shouldn't have to miss this, so you won't." Then it held their dates on the board. Just an idea.

I lost my grandmother this year about 3 months ago, and we will have no grandparents at our wedding for diff reasons 😪 (alzheimers, Parkinson's, deceased, in FH home country, etc.) The way I've decided to honor the deceased is by doing a memorial table. I don't want it to be too morbid or too sad, so we are using a beautiful white flower vase someone sent flowers in for my grandmother's service, and I'm picking a single different flower to represent each special person or couple (and If known I'll be using that person's favorite flower ) that we want to remember and they'll all be in one vase. Then I will have a small frame on that table that says something like, "to those who made us who we are" (haven't nailed down the quote exactly) and I'll be putting exactly who we are honoring and put "in loving memory" in the ceremony programs. I thought this was beautiful, since for me personally it's too hard/weird to put their pictures up, or put something that belonged to them out on that table. So that's what we're doing 🙂 prayers for your FH during this time- it's tough 😕🙏

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