Our Wedding Ceremony With The Kids – Sometimes You Can’t Plan For Everything
I am a detail person, one who likes to feel like there will be very few surprises in an event or project that I have planned. However, as a mother, I have learned that there is a whole list of possibilities that you cannot plan for when children are involved.
That list of possibilities have come to pass at all kinds of events like birthday parties, baptisms, church services, funerals, concerts, and many more. So I did plan for something to go wrong during our wedding ceremony with the kids… but it was like a ticking time bomb… I did not know ahead of time what it would be or when it would happen.
The first kid friendly blunder was when the girls refused to throw their flower petals onto the ground because they thought that they were too pretty to throw onto the ground.
The second and the largest blunder was when my middle son, the one who is incredibly shy, suddenly got stage freight and he refused to walk down the aisle. He clung to the door and began to cry because he was way to embarrassed to go out in front of everyone, even though they were all his friends and family.
So there was a quick but drastic change of plans… any bride (and mother) needs to be able to think quick on her feet to solve these last minute problems.
I had the bridesmaids walk down the aisle and they sent my oldest son back down the aisle and into the house where I was trying to get his brother outside. So instead of walking down the aisle all by myself, I had both of my sons walk me.
Plus I was happy that both of the boys made it outside to watch the wedding instead of one being stuck inside, too scared to come out.
As you can tell by the picture… the kids also had a little bit of a problem savoring the romantic moments of the wedding and choose instead to entertain themselves with a little game of hide and seek behind the ring bearer’s pillow game. Though in their defense, they did so very quietly, I did not know about it until I saw the pictures.
No, not everything went right during the ceremony. No, the kids did not sit perfectly still and quite during the ceremony. That will be the case in almost 99.999% of the weddings that occur in the world this year… especially the ones that have any children present.
“The thing though is that those little mistakes are the sweetest memories of the entire day. You cannot plan for everything, but the things you can’t plan for are often the most special.”
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