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“The rest of the Jewish world doesn’t have to adopt their practices.”
Again, the very Yeshivish, non-Chasidim, and most very frum couples don’t follow this gentile wedding custom of the groom and bride walking in side-by-side to the wedding party. This idea comes from places foreign to Yidden.
“Many chassidim have the custom that the chosson holds the kallah’s hand as they leave the chupah.”
Some Litvish and other non-Chasidim have that same minhag. (i.e. Yeshiva Chaim Berlin.) It is brought down in the Seforim HaKedoshim.
“the minhag that the Choson escorts the kala to her seat. I will post sources soon.”
By some chasunas the Choson and Kallah sit next to each other. Escorting her to her seat then is simple. (Although I wonder if it is proper for the Choson/Kallah to be sitting where they can view both sides of the mechitza. Many chasunas the Choson and Kallah sit separately.) But in any event, the scenario I described is the Choson escorting the Kallah to the dancing in the women’s side of the mechitza — not to her seat.