Your wedding will be one of the most beautiful days of your life – as long as you can keep the peace among the parents, stepparents, and their various significant others.
Step 1: Consider not inviting new partners
Feel free to not invite anyone whose presence would put a damper on your big day.
Step 2: Create the invitations
If the bride’s divorced parents are paying for the wedding, they should be listed separately on the invitations with the bride’s mother’s name coming first and the father’s name on the line below – no “and” in between. If stepparents are contributing, they may be included, too, with the bride’s mom and her new husband getting the first line.
Step 3: Seat exes according to their relationship
For the ceremony, seat divorced parents together in the front row of the bride or groom’s side – if they’re on good terms. If not, moms get the front row with any new significant other, with the dads and any new partner a row or two behind them.
Step 4: Organize the receiving line
For the receiving line, the bride’s mom and any significant other take the first spot, followed by the groom’s parents with their respective partners, mother first, and then the bride’s dad and any new partner.
Step 5: Cut new partners out of the picture
Have the photographer take pictures of the bride and groom with their biological parents. Separate pictures may be taken of the bride and groom with their parents and any new partners.
Step 6: Omit parental announcements
If you have an emcee who is announcing the bridal party, ask them to leave out the parents.
Step 7: Seat them at separate tables
Seat the parents with their current partner for the wedding dinner, and put the couples at separate tables.
Step 8: Go with your gut
Adjust these guidelines according to how everyone gets along and what will make you most comfortable.
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