Has anyone decided to not have a wedding party?

Do it! There are a lot of ways to include special people in your wedding, besides having them in the bridal party. I have done many, many weddings with no bridal parties; the time and money it will save you? Priceless!

I skipped a wedding party and haven't regretted it for a second! It made the planning so much more stress free also. We had about 40 guests, so a small wedding.

^ Same here. We had about 45 guests, and many traveled internationally. I also felt it was ridiculous to have half of our guests stand up in the wedding party. So we just had a MoH and a BM. I haven't regretted it for a second either. As Jennifer said, it was less stressful, and international coordination is challenging when people are only guests, let alone in WP.

I'm not having a "typical" wedding party.. we are having my FH's 2 kids be our maid of honor and best man and that is it. My "girls" are still going to help me get ready and keep me from stressing out on the wedding day are okay with not having to buy a specific dress/shoes/etc. Less chances of it turning into something from "Bridesmaids" LOL

You can have none or you can go with 2-3 and use the rest as readers, hostess, etc..

Keep in mind that the planning should be stress free......it is about your union.

Especially since you are having a smaller wedding, I think it's totally fine! I contemplated doing this myself but my wedding is a little bigger and my FH is all about having his groomsmen. I think it can save a lot of time, energy, drama and money. Plus, your girls will be there to help you out anyway and no one will have hurt feelings! Maybe just a MOH and BM like others have suggested

We're just doing BM & MoH. Our other close friends (who like your's are spread all over) we are asking to be involved in different ways. =)

We only have an MOH and Best person (Lol my FH picked his twin sister) I wanted to have no one, but was talked into having one person. I say go for it, it's a small wedding you don't need a party.

We're having about 125 people at our wedding but have decided not to have a wedding party. My niece (9) and her nephew (5) to stand up with us.

Two of my cousins who I"m close with will make a toast at the morning after brunch and then my sisters will make toasts at the wedding I think.

We had a maid of honor and a dude of honor (both of whom were my children), and no other wedding party. That way, each of them could just wear a nice outfit s/he already owned, and we didn't need to worry about matching.

Having no wedding party is an idea, I've never considered. However many have posted that they didn't have one either, and have no regrets.

What about having all 8 in the party? You never know, all 8 may not even want to be bm's and may choose to just be a guest.

We were having the same trouble, we are having approximately 50 guests and it was limited to family and very close friends. so since it was based around those closest to us, we decided to have couples stand with us. for instance my FH is having his best friend and his wife and another close friend and his wife stand on his side and i am having my brother and his wife and my cousin and his wife stand with me. We each have a daughter from a previous relationship so each of our daughters will stand on our sides.

as far what the couples will wear, we are leaving that up to them. we asked that they wear summer semi-casual attire and then the girls will be dressed up.

we found this to be the least stressful and sticking to our theme (family). We also wanted to go outside of the traditional way of doing things and hope that this was something our guests would remember about our wedding.

Same here! We opted for MOH and BM, I have 2 MOH though. so our wedding party is only 3 people... better than the original 12!! lol

We didn't! We had a small intimate wedding of 40 ppl, so we had our siblings form the "Un-Wedding Party"- just his sister and my brother. It's much less stress, and no hurt feelings. It was perfect, we wouldn't have it any other way.