To Honor You As If You Were Here

There are many ways to honor your loved ones that have passed away when you are getting married that cannot be there with you. If you have a favorite uncle, aunt, or a cousin that you were close to, or one of your parents are grandparents has passed on, or sadly enough your child, there are ways for you to honor them when walking down the aisle. Here are a few of my top picks for my most favorite things and the things that I think are most beautiful. The things that I would choose for my wedding.

First, we have wedding shoes, that in the back have a little heart-shaped photo area where you can put in the photo of the loved one inside your shoes. If your father has passed away and he can not walk you down the aisle, this is a way for you to feel that your father is still walking down the aisle with you. For a lot of people that is very, very important to them. This gives the bride a sense of " my father still walking me down the aisle. He may not be here physically but he is here in spirit, I have his face here, he is walking me down the aisle like I always dreamed."

They also have candles where they can have these big glass jars that they put the candle in and it can say the name and the date of when the person died on the candle It can say whatever you want it to say. It can say, "In memory of James Alan Mollett beloved father April 14th, 2014, or it can say "In memory of Charles Heinz and it can have the date that Charles passed away or it can even have the birth date with the date that the loved one passed away. Whatever you want you are able to make it your own. Then you can always light the candle either while the wedding is going on or even after the wedding when you are having the reception. However, you want to do it, if you have a lot of loved ones that you want to attribute in that way and you are having a wedding at night time you can always put them out in the dark for people to have light or you can just have it burning to get that certain smell that reminds you about when the loved one was around.

I also really like these chair covers. It is basically like a cover like a banner or a blanket that goes over the chair and it says something like " This seat was saved for Belinda Heinz in heaven." So you taper off a couple of the front row seats for a parent a mom or a dad that has passed away or grandparents, maybe your child has passed. It covers the chair and that symbolizes that is a seat reserved for a loved one. Nobody else can sit in that seat. That where they would set if they were there that day.

Lastly I also really like this wood carving that is kind of like an easel and then it has the picture of the person that has passed away and it says something like," Not here physically, but here in spirit." It says the name and the date of when that person died and it can say whatever you want it to say. It can say in memory of, it can say we honor this person, we honor these people that could not be here today. It is either up in the front by where the bride and groom get married or where they have the reception or put over where the guest book and everything is so that everybody sees it whenever they go to sign the guestbook or when they go to put presents on the table or give the bride and groom well wishes. These are a few things that I absolutely love and adore because my husband and I have so many loved ones that would not be able to be there for our wedding, so it is a way for us to be able to honor those loved ones at our wedding and feel like they were there with us if not physically then spiritually. Call us crazy, but sometimes it just makes you feel better to have something like that.