Picking Wedding Party

Your bridal party should consist of the people you are closest with. The more "traditional" way is to have all females be bridesmaids and all men be groomsmen, but people have been having whoever on either side. Our bridal party is a mix of siblings and close friends.

I have two brothers that are not in our BP and FH has one sister who is also not in our BP. Fh has one BM and I have one MOH. The rest are my cousins, middle school aged and under. I really wanted my cousins to be involved in the wedding.

Mixed. We are having our best friends, his brother and my niece as our party.

Sorry, I forgot to mention that the BM and MOH are our childhood friends.

You should choose whomever you want to stand beside you on your big day. Who do you love the most, and who loves you the most?

I have a mixture - my MOHs are my best friends, and my bridesmaids consist of cousins and friends! I have no sisters (or any siblings for that matter) otherwise they'd have been chosen too.

I used two different thought processes when choosing. We both decided no siblings so that we weren't leaving anyone out, due to the fact that we each have quite a few siblings. The other thing I thought about when choosing mine is who is going to be in my life longest? Do you want your kids looking at wedding pictures and asking who your bridesmaids are, or do you want them to look at the pictures and think "oh that's aunt so and so". You might talk to or see someone more often than one friend, but is said friend going to be in your life forever? My MOH is my childhood friend, even though I don't talk to her and see her as often as others.

Your bridal party should be your nearest and dearest friends, those that you can’t picture your wedding day without. Blood relation doesn’t guarantee you a bridal party role.

I am planning on only having a MoH (my best friend) I don't have any sisters, he has a half sister but she is like 10 years younger than me and we aren't close.

I think he is only having his brother and half brother ( we never really think of him like that though). I have a brother but my brother and my fh isn't close with him.

I can't really imagine anyone else up there with us!

None of our family members are in the wedding party.
MOH- best friend since high school
BM#2- friend since high school
BM#3- friend from college
BM#4- FHs friend’s wife whom I’m also close to

Best Man- best friend since childhood
Groomsmen #2 & #3- friends since high school
Groomsmen #4 & #5- friends since college

officiant- FHs best friend since high school

You can pick as many or as little people as you want. It’s your day.

You can choose family or friends, whoever you’re closest to! My maid of honor is my childhood best friend of 20 years, and then I have 3 bridesmaids one is my cousin and the other two are also childhood friends.

My fiancé’s best man is his cousin, then he has 5 groomsmen 3 of them are childhood friends and the other 2 are my brothers. My fiancé has a sister but we both decided to not include her since neither of us are close to her.

I’m kind of breaking away from the traditional set. My fiancé has three best friends that he grew up with, so it was a no brainer for him. They will be his best man and two groomsmen. I however don’t have any friends or a lot of family that I’m close with. My sister will be my MOH that was always a cert, and I have a cousin I’m very close with I asked to be a bridesmaid. I also asked the best man’s girlfriend who I’m friends with to be a bridesmaid ( though I’m sort of regretting this 😅) finally I decided to ask my cousin who is a guy to be a bridesman because the two of us are very close. So there will be four on my side three on his. Ask the people who you talk to everyday, the people who you go to when things are falling apart or the people you first told your engagement about!

It is completely up to you. My wedding party consists of my 4 closest friends. My FH party consists of his brother and his 3 closest friends. If you have family you want standing next to you on your big day then absolutely have that! It all comes down to who you want standing next to you when you say "I Do!"

For us, its traditional to have all siblings in the wedding. So my bridesmaids were his sisters and my best friends. The friends were reliable friends that I was (still am) currently close with and picture being friends with for a very long time. My husband's groomsmen were his brother, my brother and friends.

There isn't any rule! We have 9 bridesmaids and 10 groomsmen, so a huge party that is expensive. I included my fiance's 4 sisters & he included my 1 brother. The rest are our best friends from high school/college/etc.

There is no rule. You choose who you want to be a part of it. For myself. I have my brother and sister my FH 2 brothers and the rest are close of friends of ours.

Who did you pick to be part of your wedding party, Alexis?