Coming from a Midwestern perspective:
I've never seen the dad be the best man before. Usually it's either a brother or close friend. For our wedding, it was the husband's best friend who also introduced us.
The groomsmen waited up front and the bridesmaids walked down the aisle for our Lutheran wedding. The groomsmen escorted the bridesmaids during the recessional. At my sister's Catholic wedding, we walked both the processional and the recessional with the groomsmen.
We had a rather large wedding (230ish guests), which is one reason why we opted for additional ushers. The groomsmen did not seat any guests.
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It's gonna be a hootenanny.
Or maybe a jamboree.
Or possibly even a shindig or lollapalooza.
Perhaps it'll be a hootshinpaloozaree. I don't know.
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