Good Question: Who to Include on the Wedding Program?
Wednesday March 26, 2008
Reader Charmaine writes:
I found your Wedding Program guide to be very useful. You list the grandparents of the bride and groom. My grandmother is deceased and for my fiance, only his grandfather is alive. Do we include the deceased?My answer:
This part of the program is to help your guests identify who is coming down the aisle and being escorted. For deceased family members, I'd add an "in memoriam" note at the back. Check out my article on honoring deceased family members, for more ideas on how to include them.Readers, what do you think? Should your wedding program include deceased family members, and those not present because of other obligations?
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Thank you so much for the answer that you gave on what to do with the family death. I’m getting mattied in Sept of this year and did’t know what so do for my mom. know i do thank you again for the help.
I think the answer to this question is really up to the individual bride and groom because it depends on their relationships with the family members, both living and deceased.
As an example, in the case of a deceased grandparent, the person may have passed away before the bride or groom was even born and therefore probably wouldn’t be included or the grandparent could be recently deceased and have had direct hand in raising the bride or groom from childhood. In that case, the grandparent would almost definitely be included.