Recessional with uneven genders

Hi ladies!

So Richard and I were talking about our attendants today, and we've discovered a slight problem.

I am having my two best friends, my future sister in law and my best guy friend as a man of honour. He is having my brother, his brother and his two best friends.

You may see the problem already. How would you pair them up to recess down the aisle after the ceremony? I have no ideas and neither does he, so I have come to the lovely ladies of Pash to figure it out. I don't particularly want to add in another attendant just so he can add in his female cousin to walk with my ManOH.

[Complicated Woman]

We actually had the same situation. We had them all walk in individually (since we only had six people, total, it wasn't very long) and when they walked out together, the two guys didn't "process", they just sort of walked together and smiled and chatted -- it was fine!

[Heather]

Originally Posted by Complicated Woman

We actually had the same situation. We had them all walk in individually (since we only had six people, total, it wasn't very long) and when they walked out together, the two guys didn't "process", they just sort of walked together and smiled and chatted -- it was fine!

Agree. No one really cares or will pay attention to how they're walking out. This is one of those small things that you shouldn't stress about at all.

Did your boyfriend talk to his brother yet about his own marriage plans?

[sparklesweetie]

Originally Posted by Complicated Woman

We actually had the same situation. We had them all walk in individually (since we only had six people, total, it wasn't very long) and when they walked out together, the two guys didn't "process", they just sort of walked together and smiled and chatted -- it was fine!

That's what I was going to suggest.

[Complicated Woman]

One other suggestion, we had seen this done before but decided not to do it, you can have Richard and all his guys come in from the front and then just your side of the party can come in from the back.

Originally Posted by Heather

Did your boyfriend talk to his brother yet about his own marriage plans?

Yeah, we're just going along with our plans and not worrying about them since it's not looking very likely that they'll be getting married any time soon.

I'm not worried about the processional because obviously we're all going to walk down individually. I don't particularly even care about the recessional, but Richard was getting all antsy about it yesterday.

[AngelRoseFyre]

Originally Posted by Complicated Woman

One other suggestion, we had seen this done before but decided not to do it, you can have Richard and all his guys come in from the front and then just your side of the party can come in from the back.

I was going to suggest that, I was in a friends wedding, and she did it this way. It worked really well. I think having the last 2 guys walk back together 'buddy like' would look just fine too.

[RJE080703]

We had the guys standing up there with the groom before hand, and then when everyone walked out the guys and girls paired up, but we had one guy too many so we had one girl with two guys (one on each arm) as they walked out...

It was kinda cute too because the girl walked out acting like she was hot stuff with two guys!

Yeah, we'll definitely have the guys already standing up with Richard before we walk up the aisle.

I think he's coming around to being okay with have the two guys just walk back down afterwards. I think it'll be fine and I don't see why it's weird, but he still does. C'est la vie. If it's that much of a problem to him I'll just add another friend.