Kelsey Cecil 10/19/26 Kelsey Cecil 10/19/26

Getting Married Without Your Parents: Planning, Honoring Them and Building Your Village

Name: Grieving My Parents by Finishing My Mom's Children's Book
Uploaded: 2026-10-11T15:48:12+00:00
Description: Kelsey Lizee Cecil on losing both parents and publishing Rally Takes the Train, the children's book her mom always wanted to write.

A wedding without parents can still be a day you love, and it will probably have moments of real grief, too. Spread the jobs your parents might have done across friends, relatives and paid help, choose role swaps that feel like you, and plan for the hard moments the same way you plan the timeline.