Here are some tips to consider when planning a wedding if your parents are divorced:

Rehearsal dinner: The divorced biological parents should not be seated next to each other if they have remarried.

Photographs: This is up to the parents, and it depends on how many photographs the parents want with the children. If the parents agree to be in the same photographs, they will most likely appear in more photographs.

Seating: The biological mother of the bride should be allowed the front row of the church. The biological father can have the second row.

Giving the bride away: It is always the bride’s choice whether she would like her biological father or her stepfather to walk her down the aisle.

Costs: Usually the divorced mother and father of the bride split the cost of the wedding. The groom’s parents, who are expected to pay for the pastor’s fee, rehearsal dinner, honeymoon, boutonniere and bride’s bouquet, can do the same.

Dance: The second dance at the reception is traditionally reserved for the bride and her father. She should dance first with her biological father, then with her stepfather, unless she chooses otherwise.

Source: Carmen Hocking, wedding consultant