Tip - Ask Team Practical: Involving Kids in the Ceremony

Hi there! My fiancé and I are stoked to have four awesome kids in our lives—two stepsiblings: a boy, ten, and a girl, four; one cousin: a girl, five; and one nephew, four. We’d really like to involve them in the ceremony, but while I think flower girls and ring bearers are adorable, I feel like these kids are getting hit with enough gender reinforcement every day. I don’t feel compelled to stick the two girly, but also totally fierce and rambunctious girls, in white dresses and expect them to behave like glowy little angels and feel important because they …