{"id":1654,"date":"2018-09-18T11:22:09","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T11:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weddingbranch.co.uk\/news\/?p=1654"},"modified":"2018-09-07T11:23:24","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T11:23:24","slug":"wedding-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weddingbranch.co.uk\/news\/wedding-inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"Wedding Inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weddingbranch.co.uk\">planning a wedding<\/a>, many people don\u2019t start with the venue or even the entertainment, but tend to begin with making the guest list. Who gets a plus one? Should you invite your second cousin? Or that friend of a friend who invited you to his stag do that one time? All a difficult moral quandary but one thing that is certain is that you\u2019ll both want your families in attendance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mothers, fathers and grandparents as well. When it comes to picking roles for them, siblings tend to be put to use as bridesmaids and ushers but grandparents\u2026 Well grandparents all too often get left out of having to perform any official duties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That\u2019s partly why we love this story so much! Bride Maggie Wakefield and her fianc\u00e9 Josh wanted to find a special way to thank the part that their grandmothers had played in their lives. Rather than have a small group of young girls hold the honour of being their flower girls, they instead chose 75-year-old grandmother Joyce and 74-year-old grandmother Drue to sprinkle rose petals down the aisle at their wedding ceremony in Gap, Pennsylvania.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>That wasn\u2019t the only way that Maggie and Josh celebrated their grandparents either; with the bride\u2019s having died before the ceremony, it was grandfather Ronald that got to do the honours, walking his granddaughter down the aisle. A wonderful story and hopefully it gives you a little bit of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weddingbranch.co.uk\">wedding inspiration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When planning a wedding, many people don\u2019t start with the venue or even the entertainment, but tend to begin with making the guest list. Who gets a plus one? Should you invite your second cousin? Or that friend of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/weddingbranch.co.uk\/news\/wedding-inspiration\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[319,5],"tags":[290,289,352,296],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingbranch.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingbranch.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingbranch.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingbranch.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingbranch.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weddingbranch.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1655,"href":"https:\/\/weddingbranch.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654\/revisions\/1655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingbranch.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingbranch.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingbranch.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}