About to be fired

Are you ready to end your friendship with them? If you are, go ahead and remove them.
If you’re not though, just be aware that telling someone they’re not good enough (even if you feel your reasons are valid) to be part of your wedding party, will most often result in very hurt feelings and your friendship will absolutely be impacted.
My recommendation would first be to talk about your feelings with them, face to face. Try to get to the bottom of why they’re ignoring you. Good luck!

Your wedding is more than a year away. I find it interesting on so many of these posts how brides think their BMs should be available at every whim and text especially when the wedding is so far away. No one will ever be as excited about your wedding as you and there really is nothing your bms should be expected to do at this point except get their dresses/shoes about 6-7 months before the wedding which would be around June of next year!

Do they work for you? Do you pay them? If not then you can't "fire" them.

They are not obligated to help plan your wedding. They aren't obligated to host pre-wedding parties. They don't need to all shop together for dresses.

Honouring someone with a position in the wedding party is your way to honour them. Not a job with a list of expectations, expenses and tasks.

I would think about adjusting your expectations of them.

I would strongly encourage you to reconsider your expectations of your bridal party.

Your bridal party have their own lives to live and as much as I'm sure they are happy for you and thrilled to be a part of your bridal party, that doesn't mean that they should be expected to put their lives on hold to be at your beck and call ahead of your wedding.

When scheduling appointments that involve them or that you want them to attend, you should be accommodating their schedules because you are taking up their time as much as you are your own. If you are asking them to do anything then yes you need to cater to their availabilities.

In any event, your wedding is more than 16 months out so I am not really sure what you would need them to do this far in advance. Don't make the mistake others have in ending a friendship over something that is trivial and a consequence of unrealistic expectations.

Your wedding is almost 2 years away, I wouldn't be worrying about dress shopping or anything right now. But they definitely don't have to be at every single dress appointment. Some will make it some won't, that's just life.

I have to echo previous posters’ sentiments here… it’s too early to be expecting anything from your wedding party at this point. About 6-8 months out is when you should be looking for bridesmaids dresses, and that’s really the first time your bridal party should be doing anything for your wedding. If you would like your BMs to go shopping with you for your wedding dress, by all means you can extend the invitation. No, you do not need to accommodate their schedules for your wedding dress shopping trip. However, you also cannot expect them to accommodate your schedule either. Simply extend the invitation on the date you will be shopping, and if they can make it, they will! By no means is their attending your dress shopping trip necessary or mandatory (and in fact, bringing multiple people often times complicates and lengthens the process!). It sounds as though you may be expecting too much from your bridal party. Please remember, you have given them the title of bridesmaid as an honor. It is not a job title! Thus, they should not be expected to do any sort of work for you, attend a lot of events, be at your beck and call, plan pre-wedding parties, etc. It sounds as though you need to adjust your expectations of a wedding party.

As others have said, your wedding is very far away! They probably don't see the importance of doing everything you are asking them to do this far in advance. If you want to "fire" them, be prepared to lose those friendships. If I were you, I would scale back your requests until closer to your wedding. I am sure they will be more active in participating at that point.

I think you need to rethink what you expect from your bridesmaids and ask yourself how well you know them. I have a matron of honor and 3 bridesmaids (2 of which are my sisters). My maid of honor and bridesmaid who is a friend are amazing and have happily jumped into helping with things when they can. My one sister is horrible about responding to text messages so as long as she shows up where she needs to be I just have to accept that I may not get a response. My other sister is flaky and while I expect her to show up for the rehearsal and big day I really dont expect her to show for anything else even if she agrees to come. I knew that before asking them to be bridesmaids what I could expect from each of them. I am happy to have help but honestly plan everything so that if someone doesnt show its not the end of the world.

You know i kind of had that problem. my bffs were really unresponsive and i totally get people had things to do and your wedding isn't their priority in life but man it's like legit no communication at all. so i just brought it up to them kinda saying i felt like i was being ignored? and also just to check in with them to see if they are doing ok, etc. like what if things are going on with them where it makes them unavailable.

I'm getting married 5 months before you and I have no idea why you'd need to text your bridesmaids so much about wedding things. My texts with my bridal party right now (separate texts, not a group text - which I wont make until it's time to order dresses) are about life, sharing tik toks, working out, etc, if they ask about the wedding then I'll answer and talk about it, but right now they don't need to help with anything and it's too early for dresses or any other events. I invited the four that live in my home state to come to one dress shopping experience, two came. I invited the other two to my one in the state I live in now, and one of them came. I didn't expect them to drop everything for me. I think you need to check your expectations.

As nerve racking they are being its a friendship ending move, and all they have to do is show up at the wedding in the dress you want and the color you want that is it everything else is optional

You should definitely be catering to your bridesmaids schedules when planning things as the bride.