Enhance the Special Feeling by Asking Your Parents for a Veil Down and Escort with Sticky Notes!

Request Cards for Guests

One of the paper items to enclose with invitations is the request card.

It is a small note card, about the size of a business card or a strip of paper, addressed to guests who will attend the ceremony or who are asked to take on roles on the wedding day.

This paper item serves the purpose of communicating what you would like to request from your guests, along with details like meeting times and locations.

Those who have attended a friend's wedding may have actually seen one in person.

@love.181121

Idea to Prepare Request Cards for Parents ♡

I would like to share a wonderful idea related to these request cards.

It is the idea of creating request cards for your parents as well.

Generally, it is not necessary to send invitations to parents. (Often, the senders are the parents of the bride and groom.)

Therefore, it is quite rare to send a request card to parents.

However, when you think about it, there are many things you will want to ask your parents on the wedding day.

☑ Veil Down

☑ Escorting down the aisle

☑ Last Bite

☑ Escorting for the break

and more…

Keeping the last bite or escorting for the break a surprise on the day is lovely, but you usually communicate the veil down and aisle escort in advance.

Requesting it again with a request card is a great idea ♡

When Preparing Request Cards for Parents, Convey the Meaning as Well ◎

When preparing request cards for parents, it is advisable to convey the meaning of the cooperation you are asking for.

In this case, the bride

☑ Asked her father to escort her down the aisle

☑ Asked her mother for the veil down

created a request card.

Though she had attended many weddings and knew about escorting down the aisle and veil down, she only learned the meanings behind those actions after becoming a bride-to-be.

“I was moved by the beautiful meanings, so I wanted my parents to know them and feel the same emotions on the day.”

This feeling inspired her to come up with this idea.

@mi.wedding.tm

The aisle and veil down are symbols of the wedding, but there are surely many who do not know their meanings.

Perhaps your parents might not know them either. (Especially if they haven't had a Christian wedding!)

It might feel a bit awkward to explain in person, but it seems more doable through a request card ♡

~Example Wording for Request Card to Father~

“Please walk down the aisle with me.”

The aisle is said to represent the bride's life.

Each step of the aisle means one year.

Before the door opens, it signifies the time in my mother's womb; the first step denotes the day I was born, years ago on [date].

The time spent walking together represents the past, the moment of passing the baton to the groom represents the present, and walking with the groom represents the future.

I want to walk slowly together with my beloved father while reflecting on each year since my birth.

@wedding____25

~Example Wording for Request Card to Mother~

“Please perform the veil down for me.”

The wedding veil symbolizes the "protection" that watches over the bride until she reaches the groom.

The veil down ceremony is the final touch in preparing the bride.

I want my beloved mother, who has been praying for my happiness all along, to perform the veil down for me.

@truwed_na

Let’s Convey the Beautiful Meanings with Request Cards

I introduced the idea of preparing request cards addressed to one’s own parents.

Each wedding performance carries a wonderful meaning.

Knowing or not knowing those meanings can change your feelings about the anticipation.

Brides who want their parents to understand the meanings of these performances might consider making requests with a request card while conveying this.