Nowadays, when parents' financial and organizational involvement in weddings is no longer so great, as in the past, new ways and opportunities must be found to allow the parents of the bride and groom to be involved in wedding planning and in progress. Inviting your parents to a wedding is a very special event, so you should definitely think of a way to make it appropriate for them show respect and feel appreciated on the wedding day itself.

Choose a wedding dress with mom

One of the most emotional and beautiful pre-wedding events in which the bride can involve your mom by going with her to wedding dress salons to find her perfect wedding dress. Most likely, mom will never be afraid to give an honest opinion and will feel very honored to be with her daughter in this in the special moment.

Of course, if the bride has an equally close relationship with the future mother-in-law, then she can also invite along.

Pre-wedding party with parents

The bride can involve both her mother and the groom's mother in organizing the pre-wedding party and, of course, the groom can do the same when visiting, inviting his father and the father of the bride. If there is still concern, or parents will fit in well in the company of friends and in the activities organized by them, the first part of the day can be spent only with friends, but in the evening everyone go out to dinner together.

The bride and groom know their parents best to know how they will be able or directly on the contrary, they will not be able to get into the concept of the pre-wedding party.

Involve parents in the wedding or entrust them with organizational duties

• The parents know the bride's and groom's aunts and uncles, cousins and cousins, therefore entrusting the parents to take care of the information of the relatives regarding the wedding and the well-being at the wedding is a duty that will both please them and make them feel useful.

  

• Mothers often like to take on organizational duties, so parents can be the ones people who make sure that all relatives have a way to get to both the wedding ceremony and the place of celebration.

  

• Likewise, parents can be entrusted with larger and smaller organizational tasks, for example, decorating a wedding car or handing out ribbons to guests to decorate their cars.
  

Together with the father, choose the musical accompaniment for the procession to the altar

If the father of the bride has good musical taste, then he will be the right person to ask for advice, what musical accompaniment to choose to go to the altar. Sometimes it's the parents who come up with the best ideas when discovering musical masterpieces that the young couple had not even noticed in everyday life.

Include in different traditions

Mičošana is one of the most beautiful traditions of the evening celebration, and if the bride and groom have enough trust in the parents, then they can be asked to take care of the mixing part.

For parents, it will not only be a great challenge, but also an honor that will allow symbolically realize that their children are now becoming husband and wife. Of course, parents can be given some pointers that the young couple would like and what you definitely would not like to experience in the mixing section, thus avoiding unpleasant ones surprises.

Likewise, parents can be involved in other traditions at weddings - in many weddings, the celebration of the new couple instead, the mothers of the bride and groom are waiting, holding salt, bread and a glass of water in their hands, symbolically wishing that the young couple would never lack these things in life.

Invite to give a speech

Words of thanks from the heart are one of the most beautiful gifts that someone can give to someone. Unless the parents of the new couple are very shy and introverted people, then no matter how excited they are, they will definitely want to address the new couple and guests at the wedding celebration. However, it should not be taken for granted that parents will have prepared a speech. To be sure about it, as well as to make the parents feel appreciated, the new couple can before the wedding ask both parents to prepare small speeches, indicating that it would be very important to them.

Author of the article: LIENE PÄLĆA

PHOTO: GATIS LOČMELIS , JURďIS RIKVEILIS , KLAIDS TROUSERS

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