This Father-of-the-Bride Grabbed Her Stepdad to Help Walk Her Down the Aisle

A wedding shake-up, in the best possible way: When father-of-the-bride Todd Bachman was ready to walk his daughter Brittany down the aisle, he stopped in his tracks to grab another important guy in Brittany’s life—her stepfather, Todd Cendrosky.

“All of a sudden, at the last second, he turned his head to me and grabbed my hand,” Cendrosky told today.com. “He said, ‘Hey, come with me. You've had just as big of a part in raising this child. It's time you and me walk our daughter down the aisle together.’”

The gesture was especially touching since it seems tensions had at one point run high between the two sides of the bride’s family.

“It meant the world to me,” said Brittany. “I’ve dreamed of this, ever since I knew that my stepdad was going to be my second dad. But I always knew in the back of my head that it wouldn't happen because of the situation in my family and how no one ever got along.”

Which is exactly why her dad says he did it.

“What we've been through over the years—if we can do it, anybody can do it,” he said.

And Brittany’s stepdad was thrilled: “I always wanted to walk her down the aisle,” he told today.com. “From day one, I looked at her as my daughter, but I knew that was Todd’s—the other Todd’s—given right being the birthing father. But this was his way of including me, and I thought that was the kindest gesture that anybody has ever set forth for me.”

The touching photos, captured by Delia D. Blackburn Photography, have been viewed by millions.