The content Gods of Reddit have delivered once again this morning and revealed that there is a huge debate going on around baby-wearing at weddings. According to an AITA post, one bridesmaid is considering wearing her one-year-old in a sling during the ceremony. Naturally, it has prompted a lot of opinions.
‘My best friend is getting married next October and my little one will be 14 months then,’ the post starts. ‘I’m thinking of asking her how she feels about me wearing baby in a pretty ring sling during the wedding…I just saw some pics of a baby-wearing bridesmaid that gave me the idea.’
According to the Reddit user, the bride is well aware her daughter will be attending the ceremony and offered for her mother to look after her during it. However, as she typically wears her baby in a sling, baby-wearing during the ceremony would seem to be her preference.
‘How can I ask her and leave it open for her to feel comfortable saying no?’ the bridesmaid asks fellow Reddit users. And boy did she get a lot of answers.
Not only did the thread blow up on Reddit, it was also shared to a Facebook group called ‘that’s it, I’m wedding shaming’ with the caption ‘Please do not.’ With almost 2000 comments, it’s clear wearing a baby during a wedding ceremony is a contentious issue.
On the one hand, any parent who practises attachment parenting may feel uncomfortable removing their baby from the closeness of their body for anything they don’t necessarily need to. But, is a wedding not a sufficient reason to put the baby down?
According to Brides, the average length of a wedding ceremony is 20-30 minutes, so not really a long stint without holding your baby. Plus, holding the baby at the altar makes for a much riskier ceremony when it comes to distractions. The benefit of having someone else look after the baby is that they can distract them if they become uncomfortable, or take them for a little stroll should they start uncontrollably crying.
And yet, baby-wearing during a wedding ceremony has been a talking point this year – with one story of a bride who wore her baby down the aisle going viral in February. In fact, millennial parenting site Romper is reporting it as a trend on the rise.
Ultimately, it’s of course down to the couple getting married and guest – people may have a lot of opinions, but the only ones that really matter are those in the actual wedding party.
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The Very Best of Celebrity Bridesmaids
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The rather unrecognisable Kendall and Kylie Jenner, broke the ultimate wedding taboo in white, for older sibling Kim’s nuptials to Kris Humphries back in August 2011.
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Taylor made her debut as bridesmaid for the oldest member of her squad, Britany Maack, her BFF since birth. As expected, Taylor took her bridal duties seriously, making the necessary calls to get hold of the bride’s dream dress from Reem Acra.
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It was the photo that launched her career. Before her modelling debut, Lottie Moss posed as boho bridesmaid for half-sister Kate Moss’s wedding to Jamie Hince back in July 2011.
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They say never to upstage the bride. Yet Pippa Middleton (well, her behind to be precise) stole the global media limelight, when she walked older sister Kate down the aisle on 29 April 2011.
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We can’t imagine fashion’s most talked about twins like being told what to wear. Yet the pair, perhaps reluctantly, donned white bridesmaid’s dresses and beach waves, for a friend’s Mexican wedding back in 2007.
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By far the coolest bridesmaids we’ve ever seen- Georgia May Jagger and older sister Elizabeth, attended model mum Jerry Hall’s nuptials to Rupert Murdoch in Vivienne Westwood earlier this year.
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Rihanna led a gaggle of bridesmaids decked in purple to the altar, as she watched close friend and assistant Jennifer Morales, get wed in Honolulu, Hawaii back in August 2015.
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After her role as bitchy bridesmaid Helen, you’d think twice about asking her to be at your wedding. Yet thankfully Rose took the real thing seriously for best friend Krew Boylan’s Australian nuptials back in 2012.
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In co-ordinating custom Chanel, Cara followed older sister Poppy down the aisle as she married James Cook at St Paul's Church in Kensington in 2014. The wedding was a strictly gram-free event yet the pair made up for it with a second A-List bash in Marrakesh.
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Our favourite Girls star Lena Dunham, wore lilac for her best friend of 28 years Isabel Bramlette Halley’s Midsummer’s Night Dream themed nuptials in 2014.
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As the eldest of the Hiltons, it’s surprising that Paris curbed the attention to give younger sister Nicky the chance to shine for her nuptials in London on July 10, 2015.
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Kate Bosworth wasn’t afraid to break wedding etiquette as she wore a black number to her friend’s Sydney wedding in 2008.
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It was the most talked about wedding since the Royals. The Kardashian clang made a repeat appearance as bridesmaids, this time for Kim’s wedding to Kanye West. The sisters wore white full length gowns alongside daughter North, for the Parisian nuptials on 10 May 2014.
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Never one to blend in, Lady Gaga was almost unrecognisable for her friend’s New Orleans-based wedding bash in March 2015.
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Beyonce and sister Solange, joined former Destiny’s Child bandmate Kelly Rowland, as bridesmaids for mum Tina Knowles’s yacht wedding to Richard Lawson in April 2015.
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Remember when Sofia Vergana married Joe Manganiello last year? Well, Sofia opted against the traditional brigade of bridesmaids yet this didn’t stop her from being one for close friend Chi Biu on June 27, 2015.
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Much to our disappointment, Mila Kunis recently wed Ashton Kutcher in secret. Yet she did happily step in to the public eye as bridesmaid for her brother Michael back in 2013.
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Jennifer Lawrence joined ten fellow bridesmaids in ivory J Crew gowns as her brother Blaine wed Carson Massler in 2014.
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Maggie Gyllenhaal swapped the traditional bridesmaid gown for Hawaiian attire at her dad’s wedding in 2011 alongside actor brother, Jake.
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Jessica Biel attended friend Beverley Mitchell’s Italian nuptials in 2008 with wedding date and now-husband, Justin Timberlake.
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The former Hills star Lauren Conrad joined her fellow castmates as bridesmaid for Maura McManus’s wedding to David Oehm in 2014.
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Eva Longaria was asked to be bridesmaid for friend Alina Peralta at their Spanish nuptials back in 2015.
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The Scream Queens star, Emma Roberts, played Maid of Honour for designer BFF Kara Smith, in November 2015.