Hello! I'm here again with yet another nugget of confusion and indecision ?
My mother-in-law-to-be today mentioned to me about the recessional for after the wedding.
For anyone like me who has no idea what that is, it's when the bride and groom walk back down the isle after the ceremony followed by the wedding party and then by the other members of the congregation, beginning with the bride and grooms parents, who are supposed to walk down brides mother with grooms father, brides father with grooms mother. Now, this is something I have never actually heard of before, nor have I ever seen it done, though I have been to a fair few weddings over the last few years. At the weddings I've been to everyone has pretty much just left in whatever order they choose, and usually managed to end up outside before the bride and groom ready to throw confetti all over them. Though to be fair my family don't really do formal and I will be the first person from my direct family to get married in a church (both my parents remarried, and both my older sisters got married, but all at a registry office).
I'm not sure what my partners family are expecting though, and whether or not they usually do things more formally. Is it common practice to have a formal recessional or just one of those things that some people do and others don't? One awkward thing if I did have a formal recessional though would be the fact that I have a step-father and a step-mother, who are they supposed to walk down the isle with?
So yeah, that's it really, just wondering if any of you have any more of a clue than I do haha
