Ideas on how to honour lost loved ones during your wedding day.
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Weddings are a happy, joyous, big life event. A day that we want to share and celebrate with our friends and family. However for those of us who have lost people we care about, we know the event can also be bittersweet. If you are one of those brides or grooms-to-be who are faced with planning a wedding in the knowledge that a special person (/people) cannot be there, then firstly I just want to say that I’m so sorry things could not be different and that this is the reality you are having to deal with.
Knowing that so many of you out there might be dealing with this, we set out to thinking about ways that those loved ones can be acknowledged and incorporated in to the day so that you are able to honour the memory of that person, in a positive way. Some ideas are small and discrete and perhaps just for you, others are more outward and obvious for those of you that wish to share with your other guests. There is hopefully something here for everyone…we have tried to find the line between morbid and sentimental as we realise this will be an emotional day on many levels but we hope to help keep it that joyous occasion that you, and your loved one, would have always wanted it to be.
If you find any of these particularly helpful, we’d love to hear from you. Also if you have any other ideas, please share them with us in the comments either on here or on YouTube itself so other brides and grooms can benefit too. We’ve got our tissues ready. x
— Love Bride Society
