Page (weddings)
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A page is a young male attendant at a wedding or cotillion.
This type of wedding attendant is less common than it used to be, but is still a way of including young relatives or the children of relatives and friends in a wedding. A page is often seen at British Royal weddings. There may be many pages for effect at cotillions.
In a formal wedding or a white wedding, the page is either:
- A ringbearer is a special page, who carries the wedding rings for the bridal party. This is a modern term, and it is perfectly correct to refer to the Ringbearer
- Pageboys traditionally carry the brides train if she is wearing a dress with a long train
Flowergirls, Ringbearers and Page Boys are usually nephews or young brothers and are generally no younger than about 5 nor older than 9 or 10.
