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Photos of the moment were captured by photographer Delia D Blackburn and posted on her [Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/Delia-D-Blackburn-Photography-673664349370045/timeline/). “Todd reached out his hand and grabbed Brittany’s stepfather and pulled him down the aisle to walk their daughter down the aisle together,” Blackburn wrote. “NOT A DRY EYE at the ceremony..including me! Families are what we make them…make it about your kids and not your ego.” After the ceremony, Bachman told the photographer, “He has helped me raise my daughter and he should be walking with us.” The Sept 27 post has been liked by more than 1 million people and shared more than 450,000 times to date. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4053865/father-of-bride-stepdad-walk-daughter-down-aisle/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4053865/father-of-bride-stepdad-walk-daughter-down-aisle/"},"headline":"See the Moment This Father of the Bride Made Her Stepdad Join the Walk Down the Aisle","datePublished":"2015-09-29T16:30:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:25:22.373Z","description":"\"He has helped me raise my daughter and he should be walking with us\"","url":"https://time.com/4053865/father-of-bride-stepdad-walk-daughter-down-aisle/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","father","photographer","wedding"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4053865/father-of-bride-stepdad-walk-daughter-down-aisle/","name":"See the Moment This Father of the Bride Made Her Stepdad Join the Walk Down the Aisle"}}]}] ```