Do you HONOR your parents or special loved one? How?

Everything looks great Celeste, very pretty dress...I know what you mean about having to get everything shortened

We're going to my nephew and his wife's wedding reception on Thursday, this is the nephew that was in boot camp, he just graduated tank training in Fort Knox.

Good practice for marriage.

Yeah!

Doesn't he look 12

Oh Celeste I love the dress! I so know what you mean by that "look"

At my oldest son's wedding my DIL had her mom and dad and step dad all walk her down, it was really touching considering she hadn't had the best relationship wither her biological father for some time. I love the idea of Tarsha walking down with her brother, that is such an honer. We were so hoping when my niece got married my husband would do it but my sister won out!! He got the dance though!

I'm a cryer so lots of tears for me at both my son's weddings. At my oldest son's they had butterflies they released in honer of my parents who had passed away, I was unaware that they were going to do it so I was a mess, but it was so nice. Also my son has an adopted daughter from a previous girlfriend (long story) but they incorporated her into the ceremony with a ring and all...again much to my surprise, all of us for that matter...not a dry eye in the place!

It makes much more special when you add the "non-traditional" things!

I cried at my wedding. And ever since.

Rotfl! I KNOW yer lying, Victor!!! ^_^

Love the butterfly part, that is so sweet and I too would of been a mess !!!!

I do honor my parents. Mom loved red roses and dad liked to race. I have a tatoo on my hip. A rose for mom and checkered flags for dad. Its a portal to the unknown. Never will I have another one. It hurt so ~~~~ BAD~~~~

Dont get queezy - its my hip. Hard pic to tak also!

Nice Sherrie! I could never of done that....would fear Mom would come back to haunt me for the Tatoo!! LOL

Pixie your dress looks very swishy. Does it swish when you move? I luv swishy dresses. I am neither here nor there on tradition as I think each couple makes their own tradition. Oh but I like the kiss part. That should be in every wedding. I wanted our friend (a judge) who married us to say ' You may now suck face' at the kiss part but alas he would not. He was WAY TOO serious about the whole thing IMPO but I guess judges have to be serious.

Suck face!! LOL D-Nut!!!

Both my parents were dead by the time I graduated but I had promised them I would go back and get my diploma. On the night of graduation i doned my white robe and on my hat, in big purple letters I wrote:

"A promise made, a promise kept."
" A goal made, a goal set."

That's beautiful Pixie.

Well we ever get to a RU - you will all know me, if you ask. True identification.

Too funny, Sherrie! Pixie, that was a lovely sentiment.

Nice tat Sherrie, I like it!
Celeste what a great thing to do for your parents! I am not fond of gladiolas but I planted some this year for my mom's 25th anniversary in August. Man, where does the time go...

Thanks D-nut, Robin, & Ronnie.....I grow glads for Brian's 86 year old Aunt who is still with us. I have no doubt i'll grow them in her memory when she's gone. ^_^

I was asking about traditions because my daughter Tarsha is breaking all kinds :))
At the begining of this thread I mentioned honoring someone, but maybe I meant traditions.....let me explain.

Tarsha and I were talking "wedding" and I asked who she was having walk her down the isle, she said Josh. I asked why and she said she has had 3 father figures in her life, not all 3 get along as it is and she does not want to have to choose. Knowing all the circumstance in this situation I understood her choice... and she & Josh are very close.
Then I ask about songs she's planning on dancing to and how does she want to handle that? My thought was to allow all 3 Father/Father figures to dance with her to the song
by Tim mcGraw "My Little Girl"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I5UV4VWCSk

Starting with her biological first, and in order as they came into her life. She has other plans.......



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Instead she sits me down and makes me listen to this You tube song i'd never heard of before. It's some lady singing about a woman and im not really paying attention to the words as I'm to busy trying to figure out WHAT THE HECK THIS HAS TO DO W/HER WEDDING?????
Here's the song.........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYF_C80wSng&NR=1

And she says....
"I'm not dancing with any Dad...im dancing with you, listen to the words Mom."

These are the words:
"Somebody's Hero"
She's never pulled anybody from a burning building
She's never rocked Central Park to a half a million fans, screaming out her name
She's never hit a shot to win the game
She's never left her footprints on the moon
She's never made a solo hot air balloon ride, around the world,
No, she's just your everyday average girl (but)

She's somebody's hero
A hero to her baby with a skinned up knee
A little kiss is all she needs
The keeper of the cheerios
The voice that brings Snow White to life
Bedtime stories every night
And that smile lets her know
She's somebody's hero

She didn't get a check every week like a nine-to fiver
But she's been a waiter, and a cook and a taxi driver
For twenty years, there at home, until the day her girl was grown
Giving all her love to her was her life's ambition
But now her baby's movin' on, and she'll soon be missin' her
But not today, those are tears of joy runnin' down her face

She's somebody's hero
A hero to her daughter in her wedding dress
She gave her wings to leave the nest
It hurts to let her baby go down the aisle she walks right by
Looks back into her mother's eyes
And that smile lets her know
She's somebody's hero

Thirty years have flown right past
Her daughters' starin' at all the photographs
Of her mother, and she wishes she could be like that
Oh, but she already is

She's somebody's hero
A hero to her mother in a rockin' chair
She runs a brush through her silver hair
The envy of the nursing home
She drops by every afternoon
Feeds her mama with a spoon
And that smile lets her know
Her mother's smile lets her know
She's somebody's hero


And to me this IS an HONOR.

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You making me cry!!!

I bawl everytime i hear it....how am I suppose to dance?? LOL

OMG how wonderful!!! You are truly blessed Celeste!

You are sooo right Ronnie, thanks:)

Guess you'll be bawling while your dancing ☺

I think so!!

It's so worth it!

We'll all be bawling with you. That is definitely an honor. I have to run out and get a blue dress now. Yours is beautiful.

That is so special. I'm all misty. PLEASE post a pic of your dance together Pixie.

Tears in my eyes as well....Tarsha picked a good one....song & Mom.

Thanks Robin!
I've been trying to listen to that song at leat 2X a week...I still cry!! LOL
I have 63 days left..... maybe I better step it up to every day!!

Here's my nephew and his mom (my sil)

My nephew and his wife
She's Chinese and grew up in Hong Kong...their tradition for the bride to change outfits 3X during the reception

2nd dress
should've hid those straps!!!!

2nd dress
should've hidden those straps!!!!

Oops sorry for the double post

3rd dress

Very nice....I like a military wedding....the groom looks so sincere, and she's a very pretty girl.

We honored our children by creating and presenting them with ethical wills when they were in their early teens. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethical_will. We have also attached copies to our secular wills. We individually explained and described our love for them and what we wished for them in their lives. That message was our hope that they would make the world a better place. We explained some of the ways they might possibly do that but did not direct them.

We honored my Dad on his 80th birthday by taking him to Cooperstown to see the Baseball Hall Of Fame. It was a dream of his. I sneaked a peek at all his sizes on a previous visit and bought him clothes and shoes for that frosty October. Living in FL for the past fifty plus years left him unprepared for the light snow that greeted us. The pilot agreed to not announce the flight destination. We stashed him in a part of the airport where he would not know the flight plan and showed up to board at the eleventh hour. The entire flight crew was complicate! We had a rental car reserved in Albany and started driving to the Finger Lakes. He had no idea where we were taking him but he had grown up in NYC and had delivered produce to the old-timey hotels and camps in that area. We stopped the car when we got to the sign that said something like "Entering Cooperstown". Wow! What a smile on his face! My Dad died a year ago at ninety. I spent three months in S. FL caring for him because he wanted to be at home when he died. It was such an incredible honor to share his last days with him. I'm a nurse and he was actually able to see me work for the first time. My goal was to honor my dad, but I think I'm the one more honored by the experience.
Laurel

What a wonderful story, Laurel...my DH always wanted to get to Cooperstown, but sadly, we never got there.

That's great Laurel