Couple Has Their Grandmas As Flower Ladies For Wedding

Couple Has Their Grandmas As Flower Ladies For Wedding

Watch your back cute wedding trends - flower crowns! cocktails in jars! reading Dr. Seuss! - you've totally been trounced.

By adorable grandmas. So, game over, really.

Earlier this year we saw "Nana Betty" be a babeing bridesmaid for her granddaughter Christine Quinn's wedding, joining the likes of Joyce Arthur-Gunter, who at 76 was one of her granddaughter's bridesmaids and 95 year-old Dorothy Shapiro who was the matron of honour for Jamie Jacobs.

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The latest addition to the genre is from newly married couple Rachel and Patrick Givens whose two grandmas, Renee Ruben and Joanne C. Reich, stole all of the limelight as the couple's "flowerladies".

The couple told Buzzfeed that they couldn't picture their wedding without their grandmas involved.

"A lot of the wedding for us was about the adventures we’re going to have together, and our grandmothers, who have both spent their lives traveling all around the world, are a model for that," Patrick said.

According to Patrick the two women were a little surprised at being asked at the request, but took to their duties with immense charm and flourish.

"At one point [Ruben] gave a little kick as she threw some flowers and that really got the crowd going," he said.

The trend for grandmas in weddings is something that Ariel Meadow Stallings, who runs the blog Offbeat Bride, told The New York Times, is a nice way of including family in non-traditional and special ways.

"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," Stallings said.

The modern wedding is all about reflecting how the couple live, and what - and who - they care about rather than archaic traditions, but that doesn't mean that you can't shake things up a bit and do it your way.

As Stallings told The New York Times, rather than getting rid of traditions entirely, why not make your own - in ways that matter to you.

For Stallings this comes down to asking, "How can we celebrate who this person is?"

That it will make your wedding total Pinterest bait is just an added bonus, really.

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