Lessons Learned: Junior Ushers

This is a wedding planning tip for when you have a junior usher or program distributor or greeter.  Someone needs to tell him when he should go sit down before the ceremony processional begins. Adults will make this assumption as they see the processional lining up, a smaller kid doesn’t know what is coming and is probably not nearby their parents who would give them specific instructions. Make sure that junior ushers have an assigned seat near the front of the ceremony, and are given a cue as to when they can go sit down. 

I think that kids can be a great addition to the wedding day. My general rule of thumb is to basically allow them to run amok so long as they aren’t interfering and they aren’t crying. I recently ha a toddler who wanted to sit in front of the string quartet and watch them play. She was not in the way of the vendors nor the folks walking in the ceremony processional. The planner was cool to let her sit there. But the parents kept trying to relocate, which resulted in immediate ear piercing crying. 

Lessons Learned is a occasional series about the little and sometimes not so little things I learn at each and every wedding. Even after 18 years and 250+ weddings under my belt, I still learn something new at each one! You can find more tidbits on my TikTok.