The role of flower girl in a wedding is typically given to a cute younger relative.
But in our modern times, isn’t that a bit ageist? We should be celebrating our older wedding guests, surely, and appreciating a flower girl for her skills rather than her youth.
And so we applaud bride Lyndsey Raby, who decided to do something a little different for her wedding day, choosing her four grandmas to act as flower girls.
Dressed in matching lacy blue dresses with coordinating jackets, Lyndsey’s flower girl squad was made up of her 90-year-old great grandmother, Kathleen Brown; the groom’s 70-year-old grandmother, Joyce Raby; Lyndsey’s 76-year-old grandmother, Wanda Grant; and her 72-year-old grandmother, Betty Brown.
Wedding photographer Natalie Caho shared a photo of Lyndsey hanging out with her flower girls – each carrying a special bag with the words ‘here comes the bride’ on the front – on her Instagram, writing: ‘I’ve seen a lot of cute flower girls in my day, but these four gals take the cake.’
Yep, agreed.
The photo attracted a load of comments from people who loved the idea of getting older relatives involved in the wedding.
One person wrote: ‘Beautiful! All five of them! The backbone of humanity – mothers and grandmothers!’
Lyndsey, who got married at Ocoee Crest in Benton, Tennessee, told HuffPost that as soon as her now-husband popped the question, she knew she wanted her grandmothers involved in the big day.
‘I felt so blessed to have them all here so I wanted them to be involved too,’ she said. ‘I do believe they were more excited than the bridesmaids.’
Photographer Natalie hopes sharing the gorgeous photos of the big day will inspire other people to stray from tradition on their wedding days.
She said: ‘If you’re on the fence about having something outside the ordinary at your wedding just do it! Especially if it means something as sweet as this did to you and your family.’
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source https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/16/bride-asks-four-grandmas-flower-girls-wedding-10928507/
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