Small wedding- having the wedding party sit

I think that’s totally fine. I’ve seen that done before especially in smaller venues.

I think it will work nicely! When the bride walks down everyone stands anyway, so it would be a smooth transition. They could walk down and stand in front of their chairs, everyone stands when you walk down, then the officiant lets everyone know they can be seated together. I can totally picture it 🌸❤️💐

View Quoted Comment Thank you! I love the vision! I can really picture it 💕 as for the rings and handing the bouquet do you have any suggestions on how I can make that work?

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I think it would be totally fine. My husband was in one of his friend's weddings a couple years ago and all of the bridal party except for the best man and matron of honor sat in the front row. It was a Catholic wedding which are generally longer so they didn't want to make the entire bridal party stand the whole time.

View Quoted Comment Good question- I could see two ways: 1. During the rings/vows, you could have just MOH (or Man of Honor) and Best Man only stand beside each of you or have the entire bridal party stand with you during just the rings/vows. The officiant can say “we will now have (MOH, Best Man or Bridal Party) join the couple to exchange rings”. 💐❤️🥂

That would be totally fine. I’m a firm believer in that this is your wedding so it’s your vision. Our wedding party is small- 1 of my bridesmaids has had breast cancer & we just found out that her cancer is back. She’s doing chemo & radiation so in 8 weeks we’re not sure if she’s going to be able to stand (if she still attends) for 30 mins. So I’ll have a chair for her to sit near by.

View Quoted Comment I love that! Thank you!

View Quoted Comment You’re welcome!! Can’t wait to find out how it all goes! ❤️

View Quoted Comment Thank you, I love your belief! I’m going to abide by that (: And I’m sorry to hear that! She’ll be in my prayers!

Do what what works for you. Make sure everyone is on the same page. Usually the front row is for parents and grandparents so let them all know how the seating will be arranged.

It's your wedding. The cool thing is that Anything goes!

This is exactly what we did. We had 17 guests at our wedding and had the wedding party sit down. We still had our MOH and BM there next to us but that’s not necessary.

Before we had to change plans due to covid we were going to do the same thing. Our wedding party would walk but sit after the processional. We were going to have a small but tall stand/table with a place for the bouquet and our officiant, a friend of ours, was going to hold our rings for us.

I attended a wedding that did this and it looked/worked out just fine. The bridesmaids actually really enjoyed it because they didn't have to stand in heels.