Who walked you down the aisle?

[dizneenut]

My dad.

 

[tiggerlover]

My dad walked me down the aisle.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Nobody. We got married in City Hall.

Us too.

 

[goingbackagain]

My dad walked me down the aisle 23 years ago!

 

[CheshireVal]

I am estranged from my father, so I walked the aisle alone. I considered having my brother do it, but he was in charge of videotaping.

Honestly, it didn't bother me. Our wedding was very small and not really that formal. We had flower girls but no bridesmaids or groomsmen.

 

[twojo21]

my dad walked me down the aisle & it was an amazing moment. i also included my mom & my husband included his mom in a thank you rose during our ceremony. ive been happily married almost 4 months now.

mrs. twojo21

 

[kelleigh1]

I'd always dreamed about having my grandfather walk me down the aisle, which my Dad knew. My Dad has 3 daughters, so he'd be able to walk both of my sisters down the aisle. My grandfather only had my Dad, so no daughters. I thought it would be a huge honor for my grandfather.

Well...things never work out as we expect them. My Dad did walk my older sister down the aisle for her first wedding. In fact, it was quite traditional - but that marriage didn't last long and other than my niece and nephew, we'd probably rather forget the rest. She remarried and this time it was just a quiet ceremony with her husband's family over a Thanksgiving weekend. My younger sister was married in 2002...in her hospital bed in another state. So no walking down the aisle for either of those weddings.

And then there was me. I was married in 2004. My grandfather died in 1998, so he wasn't around to walk me down the aisle. I also got married in Jamaica on the beach...with just my in-laws in attendance. I stated that I didn't want FIL to walk me down the "aisle" as I felt it would be a slight to my father and my grandfather - so my husband met me at the bottom of the stairs and we walked across the beach together.

We decided the traditional weddings just aren't for our family.

 

[HOGFAN]

my BIL(who is now ex-bil) because my dad was wheelchair bound from a bad stroke

 

[EthansMom]

Nobody. DH and I were married in a small ceremony with only our immediate family present. We didn't do the whole "walk down the aisle" thing. Plus, I'd been on my own for a few years and the entire "giving away" thing didn't fit with my independent nature.

 

[marybet]

My parents were divorced, rare in the 1950's. My mother worked and we lived with my grandparents. So at my first wedding in 1969 my grandfater walked me down the aisle. I have older twin sisters but I was the first to marry. My uncle, Mom's brother, walked the next sister to marry down the aisle. She had what was than a large wedding and my grandfather was in the hospital at the time. When my other sister got married she had a family friend walk her down the aisle. I have always been glad that I had my grandfather do it.

When I got married for the second time in 1997 I had my oldest son do it. It was a very small wedding and I was going to walk myself but I guess I am just to traditional for that. I never thought to have both of my boys walk me down the aisle, that would have been nice too.

 

[T1130]

My Dad!

 

[Blueeyes101817]

not married yet, but if i do get married, it will be my dad

 

[disneynutt1225]

My dad will be walking me down the aisle in a little more than a month!

 

[hiwaygal]

Our first "wedding" was at the JOP...so no one

For our Disney wedding, I walked alone since our families couldn't be there. I really like the idea of your fiance meeting you halfway...if I had thought of that, that's what we would have done.

If it had been a "big" wedding, I would have asked my brother. To have asked my stepdad would have caused too much tension from my dads side of the family...and there was no way I was asking my dad. He gave up that privilege when he turned his back on us years and years ago.

 

[Conservative Hippie]

My brother. My parents are divorced, and my mom raised us (me, two younger brothers). My father is also disabled, so he couldn't actually walk me down the aisle anyway. So my little brother walked me down the aisle, and when the preacher said, "who gives this woman," they all said, "her family does." My baby brother did a Bible reading!

 

[Caradana]

I have a bit of an interesting one. I'm getting married in January 2007. Here's the aisle:

It's ... long. I don't have a relationship with my father (and he's in jail, so it would be a logistical problem getting him there, ha) and my stepfather passed away, so I'm going to have my mother and stepmother escorted up the aisle, then I'll be walking myself all the way, until I get to the end, where there are stairs up to the intimate front area, where about 150 people will sit ...

and then my mother and my grandmother will walk me up, together.

 

[DisnyMama]

My grandmother walked me down the isle. My mother was a single parent and she died when I was 19.

 

[Shugardrawers]

The first time my dad. The second time I walked 1/2 way alone and then Dh met me and we walked hand in hand the rest of the way. It was very symbolic.

 

[jenm2878]

My brother and mom. My dad had passed away a couple years before I got married.

 

[tkd lisa]

My Uncle. My parents were divorced when I was young, and my uncle was my father figure. My Dad was at the wedding, and we did pictures but my uncle walked me down. No one "gave" me away.

My Mom was really upset that my dad was even there. But since I paid for the wedding, there wasn't anything she could do. I had told her up front, so it wasn't a surprise, but it was still fairly tense.