In the New York Times: Grandmas as flower girls

Remember about a year ago when I wrote about weddings with grandmas as flowergirls? Well, the New York Times interviewed me for a story about the trend:

Ariel Meadow Stallings, the founder of Offbeat Bride, a wedding blog that features nontraditional weddings, said that brides selecting grandmothers as attendants is part of a larger trend: couples wanting to include their family members in the wedding, but not in a traditional way.

“For a lot of couples and their families, there's friction between the traditional role that families play in weddings and the couple's concerns about where those traditions come from and the feeling that they don't reflect their lives,” Ms. Stallings said.

Rather than eliminating those roles completely, which can cause family turmoil, she is seeing more couples incorporating family members in ways that highlight those individuals' character traits or abilities.

Ms. Stallings suggests asking, “How can we celebrate who this person is?”

The New York Times article includes the most adorable video:

Read the full NYTimes article here, and if you want to see the wedding that first introduced us to the idea of grandmas being flowergirls, be sure to check out Lana & Michael's wedding on The Full Bouquet.

About the Author: Ariel

@arielmstallings

Author of three editions of the Offbeat Bride book and its sequel (From Shitshow To Afterglow, the ultimate offbeat breakup book) Ariel Meadow Stallings is the publisher of all the Offbeat Empire web properties. She lives in Seattle with her son. To read her latest writing, follow @arielist on Medium.