Ideas for daughters in a wedding ceremony

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If you have a daughter with the person you are marrying or you have a daughter from a previous relationship, you may be looking for ways to include your daughter in the wedding ceremony. How involved or what the role your daughter can play in the wedding ceremony depends largely on her age, but there are many ways you can include your daughter in your nuptials.

1. Lighting the Unity Candle

   • If your wedding ceremony has a unity candle, you can include your daughter in this part of the ceremony. Have the wedding officiant call your daughter up to the altar when it is time to light the unity candle. Place her hands on the candle first and then your hands over the top of her hands to guide in the lighting the unity candle with the taper candles.

   Recite a Poem or Read a Passage

   • If your child is old enough to read, have her read a poem about love or recite a passage from your faith. Readers at wedding ceremonies are chosen because they are special to the couple. Your daughter is most likely one of the most special people you have in life and your wedding guests will enjoy listening to her read a poem or passage.

   Distributing Wedding Programs

   • Place your daughter at the entrance of the church or wedding ceremony location to greet guests and hand them a wedding program. This allows your daughter to greet the guests she knows and to meet the guests she does not know. It simultaneously provides your wedding guests with the wedding ceremony agenda so they can follow along as the ceremony unfolds.

   Push in a Carriage or Pull in a Wagon

   • If your daughter is a baby, then consider incorporating her as part of the processional. Place her in a decorated baby carriage or wagon and push or pull her down the aisle. You can either send her down the aisle with the maid of honor, one of the bridesmaids or the bride herself.

   Junior Bridesmaid

   • Daughters up to the age of 15 or so can be a junior bridesmaid. She can dress in the same style dress as the bridesmaids, or a girl version of the bridesmaids' dresses and walk down the aisle with the rest of your bridesmaids.

   Flower Girl

   • A daughter that is up to age 5 or so can also go down the aisle as a flower girl. She can drop flowers petals right before you go down the aisle or simply carry a basket full of flowers, a bouquet of flowers or a flower ball.

Source: www.ehow.com

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