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A Flower Girl With a Yoda Backpack

by Susana Polo | 10:29 am, October 18th, 2011


Get ready to feel all the feelings. Offbeat Bride brings us the story of one very nervous flower girl who just needed a particular Jedi master around to get through all the attention and stress of the ceremony. As told by their reader Ms Tara:

T, the flower girl, had spent the morning hiding under the bed. She has autism, and the prospect of an event with all those people was pretty daunting. T’s aunty finally coaxed her out from under the bed with the promise of a Yoda backpack.

One trip to the toy store later, she seemed to feel much safer. But when it came time to get dressed for the ceremony and leave Yoda behind, T refused to go without the backpack. Fortunately, T’s mom totally understood, and since she was also the bride, she was well within her rights to make a last minute invitation and addition to the wedding party. T kept Yoda on her shoulder the whole day.

It’s good to know that the Jedi are now open to training Padowans without removing them from their homes. Just look at this new family:

And now I have to stop before I tear up at work just over knowing that parents like this are raising geek girls like this out there.

(via Offbeat Bride.)

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  • http://wpmututorials.com Andrea_R

    Well it *does* match….

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7G4SWUX2MCWWXLMYNN347JMIZY Frodo Baggins

    Yoda is perfect for weddings, anyway.

    “Do, or do not. There is no try.”

    “I do!”

  • Anonymous

    I had a similar experience. As a young boy, I was terrified to be the ring bearer at a wedding. The bride came to me with a small R2-D2 action figure, and tied it to the pillow. She told me it was his space ship and I had to help him get home. And they let me make space ship noises down the aisle. Good to see this still works 30 years later.

  • Francesca M

    Think .. I have something in my eye… awwwww

  • Anonymous

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  • Mjit RaindancerStahl

    there was a letter to Dear Margo over on wowowow.com from a woman who couldn’t stand the thought of facing a wedding full of strangers without her beloved tiger-ears headband. It was the bride’s demand that she not wear them.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7EO7XWFFH3MCJJKGJWTA5IPLJY Johnny

    Happy family

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    tiny.cc/qcfnd

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001175690204 Mandy Threlfo

    While standing in the rain right? because I am too. 

  • Francesca M

    It was totally pouring buckets.

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