When bride Abby Mershon asked her grandmother to be her flower girl she never expected how great the outcome would be. Here, the now-viral video!

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Abby and Dustin Mershon’s classic outdoor wedding in Minnesota began with an unexpected and heartwarming twist. Instead of tots in tulle tossing petals, the matriarch of her family, her grandmother Georgina Arlt, led her down the aisle. 

In February, when the 27-year-old popped the question to her grandmother in front of their entire family, she was greeted with an overwelmingly ecstatic ‘yes!’ “Everyone screamed but she shrieked at the top of her lungs. She kept on saying over and over that she had never been in a wedding before besides for her own. She was so excited,” Abby told People. 

Check out grandma’s grand entrance here: 

And the whole family posing for a photo:

Photo courtesy of Abby Mershon

When Abby and her sister were growing up, they saw their grandma every weekend and she couldn’t imagine asking anyone else to be a part of her special day. “She would always take us to church, brushed our hair, made us breakfast every single morning and taught us how to make our beds,” Abby says. “She was always the perfect grandma.”

And a fabulous flower woman we might add! Congratulations to the happy couple. 

—Mary Gillen