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How to handle wedding traditions when a parent has died

I'm getting married next month and my fiancé wants my dad to walk me down the aisle but my dad has been dead for five years and I don't know who should do it instead.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Life's milestones expose the permanent absence of the dead through rituals designed for their presence.

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