Bridal Party

You usually want to ask around 9-12 months from the wedding date. Most people will know right away or at most need to think about it for like a week before they figure out if they can make that commitment.

We got engaged on Easter and will be getting married on Leap Day next year. I asked all my girls a week after we got engaged! I knew what dress I wanted everyone to wear and wanted them to order it before it went out of stock!

I’m doing a DW in 2021 and made sure I asked my girls before I booked everything.

We asked our bridal party exactly a year from the wedding.

I asked all my girls with a month of getting engaged. I asked all bridesmaids at different times and then last was my moh. I wanted to make sure all my bridal party was taken care of before starting actually planning our wedding.

I am getting married June 2020 and we asked our wedding party in April.

I’m also getting married June 2020 and we haven’t asked our party yet. FH was having a hard time deciding who to cut out based on the number I gave him (sorry babe but we can’t have 9 people each 😅) so I was waiting for him. I’m seeing 4 of my soon-to-be bridesmaids in two weeks when I go dress shopping so I’ll ask them then and ask the other 2 soon after.

I don't know if there's a specific time line you need. If there is, I'm not aware of any! Once my FH and I decided how many we wanted in our bridal party we started asking our friends and family, which was in a month of us getting engaged. That was in January and our wedding isn't until April 2020.

I’d say at least a year out. I got engaged 8 months ago and my girls all just assumed their roles without asking lol they just knew.

My wedding is September 2020. I got engaged this past March and asked my girls the day after I got engaged. Now I do have one that is currently pregnant but the baby will be almost a year old by the time we get married so it won’t affect her dress fitting.
Some of my girls have to financially plan too so asking them over a year before the wedding helped them

I asked a year or 11 months before the wedding! I think your time frame is fine. You could move it up to July if you really wanted to! But honestly I haven't done anything with the bridesmaids til this month for their dresses so they weren't busy or needed to do anything all that time before that!

I asked mine EARLY. Like a week after we got engaged, I was just so excited. I texted them individually 18 months in advance and sent formal proposal boxes 14 months in advance. If I asked them today (less than 2 months out), I'd ask the exact same women and I'm really happy with my decision. It gave them a lot more time to save for wedding expenses. I know that doesn't work for everyone, you can read 1,000+ posts on wedding wire about brides regretting they asked certain women, relationships changing, etc. I'd give them a minimum of 10 months.