"So, you do want Greg to walk me down the aisle with you?" "Yeah but I don't want to tell him." "What?" "Yeah I want him to sit in the chairs and be like 'I'll never be her real father' and at the last minute Ill be like, 'Nah dude I'm gracious as fuck.'" "... fine."
When Todd Bachman’s daughter got married last weekend, he wanted to make sure that her stepfather was recognized at the wedding in some way. After all, her stepdad had helped raise her.
So when it came time to walk his daughter Brittany down the aisle, Bachman did something completely unexpected: He stopped the procession, ran to the front row and grabbed her stepdad Todd Cendrosky in order to share the honor of walking their daughter down the aisle.
The beautiful moment was captured by Ohio-based wedding photographer Delia D Blackburn, whose Facebook album of the Elyria, Ohio wedding has received more than one million “likes.”
“It was one of the most compassionate gestures toward a stepparent I’ve ever seen,” Blackburn told The Huffington Post. “The bride was in tears and overcome with emotion.”
As the photos show, Cendrosky was as well.
In an interview with local news station WKYC-TV, the stepdad said he was totally taken aback by Bachman’s kind gesture.
“[He] came and grabbed my hand and said: ‘You worked as hard as I have. You’ll help us walk our daughter down the aisle,’” Cendrosky recalled. “I got weak in the knees and lost it. Nothing better in my life, the most impactful moment in my life.”
In the same interview with WKYC-TV, Bachman admitted he and Cendrosky hadn’t always gotten along. But extending the honor at the wedding just made sense.
“For me to thank him for all the years of helping raise our daughter wouldn’t be enough,” the biological dad said. “There is no better way to thank somebody than to assist me walking her down the aisle.”
Aint_not_a_dorkus on October 6th, 2017 at 16:55 UTC »
"You're paying for this shit too"
fairfoxer on October 6th, 2017 at 17:07 UTC »
"So, you do want Greg to walk me down the aisle with you?" "Yeah but I don't want to tell him." "What?" "Yeah I want him to sit in the chairs and be like 'I'll never be her real father' and at the last minute Ill be like, 'Nah dude I'm gracious as fuck.'" "... fine."
Spartan2470 on October 6th, 2017 at 17:38 UTC »
Here are less-cropped and higher quality versions of these images (and two other images of this event). Credit to Noticemenot.
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