Flower girls are traditionally a wedding role reserved for young girls, who get the joy of taking part in a big important event. However, one couple in Tennessee broke tradition and asked their female grandparents to take up the role.
Lyndsey Raby and Tanner Raby chose the bride's 90-year-old great-grandmother, the groom's 70-year-old grandmother, the bride's 76-year-old grandmother, and the bride's 72-year-old grandmother, to carry out all the activities usually reserved for flower girls, such as walking down the aisle.
The four wore beautiful outfits and carried the baskets of flowers.
Lyndsey herself got the idea after noticing people who had posted to the image site Pinterest, a popular site for people searching for wedding ideas.
Lyndsey told HuffPost:
"I knew as soon as I was engaged I wanted to involve my grandmothers. I felt so blessed to have them all here so I wanted them to be involved too."
"I do believe they were more excited than my bridesmaids. It means so much to them."
The photographs, captured by photographer Natalie Caho, and video maker of the wedding featuring the four 'flower-grandmas', has now gone viral and been watched by hundreds-of-thousands of people worldwide.
Natalie, who was the first to share the photographs, told Today Style:
"I've seen a lot of cute flower girls in my day…. but these four gals take the cake. I was not expecting the level of sass that these girls brought. Their energy all day was that of a little girl who was in the same position. It truly just goes to show that age is just a number."
Lyndsey hopes that just as she was inspired by what she saw online other people will see the pictures of her big day and invite their older relatives to be involved in their weddings.
[Based on reporting by: Positive Outlooks]
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