The Groom’s Mother Was Seated Among Strangers at Her Son’s Wedding—Then the Bride Stopped the Ceremony and Led Her to the Chair Reserved for Her Late Mother

Synopsis

The bride stopped three steps from the altar, turned away from the man she was about to marry, and crossed the chapel toward the mother-in-law her family had seated among strangers. At 3:14 on a warm Saturday afternoon, seventy-six guests inside St. Matthew’s Chapel in Savannah, Georgia, watched Anna Mercer lift the front of her ivory gown and walk back…