The order of the bridesmaids?

@futuremrslav - you are correct! I'm looking at it when the bridesmaids are all lined up up-front. So the MOH is "first" as in, closest to the bride

@futuremrslav Our MOH/best man is walking down last too, right before me and my dad. (We don't have a flower girl/ring bearer though)

I honestly haven't thought about this until now! I mean I figured MOH first, but I never thought about the order of BMs. Now that I've read this thread I think I will go by height, that is easy enough.

I tentatively have a MOH, two bridesmaids, three bridesmen, and a jr. bridesmaid. My FH has a best man, three groomsmen, a groomslady, and a jr. groomsman. The MOH and best man will walk together and the jr. bridesmaid and jr. groomsman will walk together. After that, I'll go by height and trying to keep the two married couples together.

MOH & Best Man stay closest to B&G (in the processional, standing up front, and in the recessional).

Of course, if you have a FG (with or w/o RB), she walks down the aisle between the MOH & bride (so that only the bride steps on the flowers).

I am doing my in order of closeness. I have 2 bridesmaids who have husbands as groomsmen. They will not be walking out after the ceremony with their husbands.

The groomsmen will be standing up there before the ceremony starts. Then the bridesmaids are going to walk down. Starting with the person standing farthest away from me. Then it will finish with my MOH (I am not having a FG or RB). Then me and my dad are heading down. After that me and my husband will walk back first. Then the MOH/BM and then so on and so forth down the line.

Kind of a unique situation, but all of my BMs husbands are GMs, so they are arranged by how long my FH has know the guys.

I've had a few people tell me it's in order of length of time they have been in your life. Don't know how true it is.

Does anyone else think it's weird to not have married couples walking together? I find it very strange to imagine my fiancé walking up/down the aisle with a woman that is not me if we're both in the wedding. We actually have a married bridesmaid and groomsman and they said they hoped they were together so they could have a walk down the aisle together again. I thought that was incredibly sweet.

Same Future- MOH walks down last. I was MOH for my sister but i walked down second since my husband was second. They did height- sister's groom was 5'11'' and wanted his 6'5'' friends farther away from him lol

I'd think it was weird if my husband didn't walk me down the aisle... I had 3 couples in my bridal party as well, and they all walked down with their fiances/dates.

I'm sorting by height, just because the bridesmaids heights range from 5'1" to 5'10", and the groomsmen range from 5'5" to 6'5" and pairing my fiancé's 6'5" friend with my 5'1" sister might be a bit too comical

Im just letting them go in whatever order they choose, as long as my moh ends up next to me we're good.

My bridesmaid who is also mom of the flower boy will walk down first, then my second bridesmaid, then the bridesmaid who is my witness (she's basically maid of honor but without the title), then flower boy

ETA: flower boy is quite shy around strangers tho so may end up either walking with mom or having mom walk with him depending on his mood (he'll be three at the time of the wedding)

I did a combination of closeness and height. in my mind it works and looks great....

I have seen it done both ways. TBH, I did a combination of this. I am not close with my FSIL and I made her the last bridesmaid in the line. However, I matched her up with my brother who was a GM so it wasn't so obvious. The rest of my BM I did mostly by height and only a little by closeness lol. A couple of the GM were very tall, so we needed to line them up so they fit well with my 5'10" BM!

@FutureMrsLav MOH does always walks down last, right before the bride. I think when they say "first" they mean right next to the bride

Most of our WP are couples, so they will be paired with their spouse. The others are who they match height wise.

I think that assuming that husband/wife bridal party members should walk down the aisle together is presumptuous. Sorry but it's a hot button topic for me because I got pushback because my MOH who is my best friend will not be walking down with her fiance. Plus we had a groomsman drop out because I wouldn't take his wife as a bridesmaid and another( his wife is also not in the bridal party) almost drop out because he thought we wanted to hook him up with one of my girls :/ We paired him with a married bridesmaid and its fine now. But start acting stupid and crazy when they get married and then are in a bridal party

I made my both of my best friends MOHs. Matron of Honor is #1 because length of friendship exceeds the Maid of Honor's. Then I did length of friendship of two of my bridesmaids, then FH's sister and then FH's step-sister. His were also ranked by "closeness" but also height with the bridesmaids was definitely a factor!

I don't think people are assuming anything, they're just saying they should. What "order" are you doing it in if you're not allowing two people who are seeing each other walk down together?