When a couple gets married, as much as it’s about them, their relationship and their future, it’s also the coming together of two families.

There are customary or traditional roles for the parents of the couple in a wedding ceremony and including siblings is becoming more common as well.

But when the couple getting married already have children, either from a previous relationship or before they get married, it stands to reason that they’re included and recognised during the wedding ceremony too.

While the sand ceremony or ritual is wonderfully inclusive and symbolic, it has been DONE (and done and done again!).

So we need some new, relevant and maybe less kitch (?) ways to include children (and sometimes other family members too) in a wedding ceremony and I think these 8 ideas are unique and fun.