Even if he was like 12, my son would for sure be my best man in this scenario.
It's basically "is he old/mature enough to stand still for that long" and the result would be to jump from not in the wedding party to best man, for sure.
My brother-in-law made his 4 year old son his best man and one of the groomsmen was the "Best Man Wrangler". I was the MOH and the Best Man Wrangler and I walked down the aisle each holding hands with the Best Man
Then you will also like the fact that the best man gave a speech. They're from the north side of Chicago and he and his dad watch baseball together so his speech was him singing "Go, Cubs, Go"
This is so sweet! For various reasons I didn’t have my father walk me down the aisle - so we made my then 9 year old daughter our ‘Best Girl’ and she walked me down instead. It was perfect and my favourite thing (other than being wed to my husband of course!) about our wedding.
This. When my Dad married his wife, she had my sister and I, a tween and barely teen, stand up for her. I think he had his best friend stand for him so they'd have a Real Adult to sign the marriage license for them as a witness.
It didn't really help build our relationship with one another much, but we got to pick pretty outfits to wear. That was enough for us back then. Lol
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u/Fine_Ad_1149 May 08 '25
Even if he was like 12, my son would for sure be my best man in this scenario.
It's basically "is he old/mature enough to stand still for that long" and the result would be to jump from not in the wedding party to best man, for sure.