Pairing bridesmaids with groomsmen

We both did our sides by height. We didn’t even give a thought to who would walk with who.

Were ordering our sides by level of relationship with each person....doesn't really matter to us who is paired with who. they might have a few photos by each other if that

We are going by compatibility (not romantically just....will they get along okay). One of the girls has some bad anxiety issues so we are pairing her with the groomsmen who will be best at putting her at ease. There were only two other pairs so we thought about who’d have enough to talk about.

We are having groomswomen so they will stand with groom my bridesmaids will walk by themselves

We're going by height and if they are a couple. My friend had her cousins that are brother and sister walk together. I don't see a problem with the cousin and brother thing.

We paired ours with how well we thought one would get along with the other. I wanted everyone to be comfortable with who they were walking with and FH agreed & it worked out well for us!

We're pairing ours by relationships, of sorts. My MOH and FH BM are married and they kind of have to walking together (it just happened to work out like that) the the next pair my sil and my brother (my BM, FH GM) and then my childhood bff with FH childhood bff (and they both grew up together.) We originally hadn't planned for everyone to be paired together like this, it just happened to work out in that way.

We’re doing MOH & BM obviously then we only planned on having my brother & his sister so they was going to walk together but we decided to add in my cousin & his cousin also so it just kinda worked out that everyone got paired up naturally

We did ours based on our relationship with the person. See below.

Maid of honor (my sister) and Best Man (his best friend since third grade)

Bridesmaid (my coworker/friend) and Groomsman (his brother - this was difficult for my fiance to tell his brother that his best friend would be his best man instead of him, but he always wanted his best friend to be his best man)

Bridesman (my brother) and Groomswoman (she is also best friends with my fiance and it only made sense to put the bridesman and groomswoman together)

Bridesmaid (sister of the groom) and Groomsman (friend of the bride he is actually married to my last bridesmaid, but we did not pair them together because my fiance growing up used to make flirty comments about the last groomsman's sister so he knew the last groomsman would get a kick out of being paired with my fiance's sister. Guys are weird.)

Bridesman (friend of the bride and groom and also married to groomsman that is paired with the sister of the groom. See explaination above as to why the only couple in our wedding party wasn't paired together) and Groomsman (friend of the groom)

I want to do by height but FH has other idea of by "importance" for his groomsmen which I am trying to talk him out of simply for the fact that I think it'd gonna look really dumb because the one groomsmen he wants in the middle is towering over everyone else. That also being said that groomsmen who is super tall is closest with my one bridesmaid but she's technically the shortest. If he won't budge then I will say whatever your side can look dumb I am doing height and therefore don't care in the end who gets matched with who. He might change his mind then if he'd rather do "compatibility". which I'd be fine with.

We chose the order we wanted our BMs & GMs to stand, then paired them together that way. It will be: My best friend (MOH) & his brother (BMAN), his son (Jr.GM) & daugther (Jr.BM), my sister (BM) & his friend (GM), his sister (BM) & his friend (GM), his niece (Jr.BM) & his nephew (Jr.GM), and his brother's wife (BM) & his friend (GM).

We hadn't given this any thought lol

Lots of time to figure it out but I'm sure we will go with who will get along best with who for sure. I know obviously my MOH and his BM will walk together and I'm having my Man of Honor walk my JBM (my daughter). My son will walk my mom and sit with her and my dad. My son is on the autism spectrum and doesn't like the idea of standing in front of everyone but still wanted to be involved.

Our parties won't get to meet until the weekend of the wedding as everyone is from out of town so it will be interesting to see if our guesses on who gets along with who are correct.

We didn't worry about actually pairing them at all. We each had our own sides in order by relationship/wherever we wanted them. Boys started at the front with the groom & girls walked them selves down the aisle. The only time they were together was after the ceremony & during the grand entrance into the reception.

We paired our best man and MOH together obviously, and then out of the remaining bridesmaids and groomsmen, 1 of my bridesmaids is friends with 1 of the groomsmen so we paired them together. Out of the 2 bridesmaids and 2 groomsmen left, it was just going to be random so we did it by height. One of my bridesmaids is really tall so we paired her with the groomsman who is really tall too lol. Felt like that would just look better given the choice, but it doesn’t matter much!

I was thinking my MOH & best man walk together, then my cousin and his youngest brother, his sister and my brother and maybe my cousin by her self. Haven't gone into depth with that yet.

I don't know that we had a plan once we got beyond MOH and Best Man. I think it was just whoever said yes first was next in line lol.

It's not a matchmaking service or an arrangement of any kind, so whoever they walk in with should be no problem I wouldn't overthink it too much - just line em up and go

I'm pairing mine by height shorts will walk first, and tallest last so that when they're all standing at front, there will be a nice taper outward. I like the idea of the pleasing aesthetic and plus it takes the pressure off of "ranking" your friends and relative. I didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings by putting them in an order based on how close we are.

But Maid of Honor and Best Man I paired together, just because of the importance of those statuses!

We had our bridal parties ordered by height (after the maids of honor and best man), it was just a really easy way to line people up! I did make one tiny switch on the bridesmaid side, because we had one bridesmaid and groomsman who really don't care for each other (she used to date his best friend) - so we just made a quick switch there!

One of my friends had her bridal party lined up by who she was closest with, but you can do whatever you want!

We paired our wedding party by who is best to get along with each other. We didnt put them with who there were dating/married to because thats not how we wanted them in order, but because of that I did decide that when we do our wedding party dance that everyone can dance with there SO, they all agreed that they liked that idea and because of that they would walk with whoever we put them with.