 Dr. Dale Atkins understands your wedding woes and has the perfect sanity-saving solutions for emotional issues, family questions, and fears about the engagement, wedding planning, and future.
 | I am recently engaged and planning my wedding. At present, I am thinking about who can walk me down the aisle. I will be married at a chapel instead of a church. Since my father is out of the picture, I was thinking about asking an uncle, but I really want to ask my mother. Is it acceptable to have my mother walk me down the aisle? In truth, she has been both my mother and father. |  |  | You ask if having your mother escort you down the aisle is acceptable. What can be more acceptable than honoring the person who parented you single-handedly? In some religions it is both parents who escort their child down the aisle. If one of the parents is out of the picture, the remaining parent still escorts the child. The ritual of walking your son or daughter down the aisle is symbolic of bringing that person from the parental home to the home of their new spouse. This is exactly what your mother will be doing. | | 
Dr. Dale Atkins is a professional psychologist and frequent media expert specializing in couple and family relationships. Dr. Dale is also an author with five books to her credit: Sisters; Families and Their Hearing Impaired Children; From the Heart (co-author); I'm OK, You're My Parents; and the most recently published, Wedding Sanity Savers (co-author). Currently living in Connecticut with her husband and dog, Dr. Dale has two grown sons and a private practice in New York City. | |
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