Wedding Roles For Children: 3 Great Ways To Participate In That Special Day!
Assigning Ava her first role in a wedding, made her pretty happy. She was excited and couldn’t get much sleep the day before the wedding. All she talked about was how beautiful she would look, how long she had prepared. You could see the joy inside her, and when the day arrived, she played her role perfectly.
Assigning children roles in a wedding is fantastic for both parents and kids. But while doing so, you have to consider the number of children who would want to participate since there’s a limited number of roles to be played.
Furthermore, you have to consider the age of the children. That is something I came to know before assigning Ava. Apparently, the United States has a current limit to the roles of flower girl and train bearers for children under the age of 6. Here are some additional things to consider when assigning roles:
Flower Girl or Ring/Train Bearer – The role of a flower girl or ring/train bearer is usually assigned to kids under ages of 6. It does not involve a lot of things except carrying the listed things.
I remember Ava’s experience; she loved it. She’s still asking me when she’ll do it again.
Carrying Candles – Ava’s still waiting for her chance to carry the candles. She loves weddings and loves helping out there.
Nonetheless, carrying candles in the procession is assigned to kids between the ages of 7 and 10. Kids performing the same role can also help hand out programs and flowers to the guests.
Junior Bridesmaid – Being a junior bridesmaid is a role assigned to children above the age of 10. The title has been treated with dignity and used to adolescent attendants.
Finding out whether your child is interested is the first thing to do. When we got an opportunity to attend a wedding, I told Ava about it and explained the roles. She was very excited and couldn’t wait to help out. So, I talked to the bride, and she was happy having Ava helping out.
The biggest part of playing these roles is explaining everything concerning the role to your kids. With all information, they have a better chance of deciding if they’d want to play a role in the wedding.
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For Catholics in the Philippines, kids who are four years old or older can usually participate as the flower girl, bible bearer, and ring bearer.
I directed a wedding this past weekend and the little flower girl was amazing. She took her job seriously and was a joy to work with.
What some lovely ideas of ways to include children in the big day, over here girls are often flower girls and boys page boys, which I always think is lovely.
It is fun to get the kids involved. I eloped, so there were no kids, but I would have gotten them involved if I had a big wedding.
Whether it’s a boy or a girl .. I always love to see kids involved at weddings. I think they steal the show with their cuteness .. sometimes even more than the bride and groom!
It’s so important to get kids involved in the big day. These are great suggestions of how kids can participate.
I love that so many people are including children in such a special day. My daughter got to be a flower girl for my sister in law and she loved it.
Children are really cute fixture on weddings whether they are the ring bearer or flower girls. It would also be nice to have a junior bridesmaid.
Kids totally steal the show in weddings! I am a former wedding photographer and the kids were always the most fun!
It’s important to be able to include the special people in your life in weddings. For many people, that includes children!
My wedding was a simple, adults only venue. Even our reception will be adults only. I find it hard to cater towards children needs when the day is about the bride and groom.
I always love seeing little kids in weddings. I was a flower girl a few times and also a junior bridesmaid. My kids have all been flower girls and ring bearers in family weddings. They had such a good time!
Love seeing children as part of the wedding, just so cute! My wedding we had ring bearer and 3 flower girls!
Children are just adorable and they make a great addition to the special moments of our lives like weddings. 🙂
Getting children involved in a wedding is very important…otherwise they will be really really bored
My daughter was too old to be a flower girl at my sister’s wedding so she was the Junior Bridesmaid. She was so thrilled to do a “grown up” role.
It is nice to see families letting children be involved with certain weddings. I don’t believe there are hard and fast written rules about who,age and what role in this area. For example, I have seen 18 month old ring bearers and they were great.
What lovely ideas.. I am sure my daughter wants to be a flower girl! My kids never been to any Wedding parties.
Looking forward to The Grands being members of a wedding party. They are sure to be beautiful. Now, being well behaved, THAT Babushka doesn’t promise. ; ) BB2U