Ushers anyone?

1) No. You don't absolutely need them, adults can seat themselves.

2) You can either pick groomsmen to do it, or get a couple friends who didn't quite make the groomsemen cut to step in.

3) Our venue suggested 1 per 50 guests.

4) I'd say it depends on how much you ask of them, if you just ask them to show up on the day of, I'd say no.

5) Escorting women down to their seat while their escort follows. You can also have them pass out programs or direct guests from the entrance to the ceremony site. Like most wedding stuff, it's very much up to you.

You don't need them. They could be helpful if there is something special you need guests to do, e.g., if you are trying to get all the bride's family on one side and the groom's on the other, or getting people to enter from the sides to avoid an aisle runner. But otherwise, I'd just skip them. They can actually hold up everyone getting seated, if each family has to wait for an usher.

We have two ushers, one because I didn't want my grandmother to walk by herself and the second because only have one seems odd and we wanted to honor both of these friends.

You definitely don't need them, but they may be helpful to guests if you are wanting people to correctly sit on bride's side/groom's side. Many people get confused as to which is which.

I think the thing I'm worried about is that the the wedding is in Chicago ( my hometown) and my fiancée and I currently live in San Diego. My fiancée has several friends making the trip out to Chicago for the wedding. Is it wrong to ask one of them to be an usher since they're from out of town? Is it kind of a slap in the face to those not asked to be groomsmen? I'm just wondering if I have ushers at all if they should be from Chicago, or does it not matter?

You don't have to have any, like was said one of the groomsmen could tell people where to go.we just had one, as we wanted to include his step father in the wedding party, so we asked him. Tbh I'm not sure what he did on the day itself as ours was in a hotel and the staff pretty much organised where everyone went for us ( I never asked). it didn't really matter we just wanted him to know we included him.

You can ask anyone, I don't think it matters if they are from the town your wedding is in or not. I don't see how it's a slap in the face if they weren't asked to be in the BP. You can't have every single close friend & family member of your FH to be a groomsmen, pretty sure they'd know that.

Just ask the day before or at the RD, "hi Joe, would you like to help usher? We have a lot of people that may need direction on where to sit." (If you're having sides). Or "can you help pass out programs?" Solved.

I'm having my groomsman

Just use your groomsmen.

I'm using my groomsmen!

I'm having assigned tables. There are 48 small tables so I'm having ushers take them to their correct table. We're having 4 ushers and 200 guests. I picked 4 ushers cuz there's 4 sections in the venue.

We have four because I wanted to include my male cousins and he had two more friends that he wanted to include that weren't groomsmen. You can absolutely have your groomsmen do this, or have nobody at all.

I had just under 200 guests and had 2 ushers. I had them seat those that might need assistance, pass out programs at the door and open the massive doors to the chapel for my entrance at a particular point in the song we used. I wasn't 100% sure if they'd be inside the chapel opening the doors or on the side where I was where I could just say "NOW!" to open the doors, so I did ask them to listen to the song and know the cue a few days before (I also made them little cheat sheets with lyrics and when to open that they could hold in the palm of their hands because I'm weird, lol!) Because of that last part, I did ask them to come to the rehearsal (and of course they were at the RD) and we did get them a gift. Both were very excited and appreciative because they didn't seem to expect it. I'll add too that the ushers we chose were a close uncle of mine and the SO of my MOH (who is the daughter of the uncle usher, so they know each other well and get along great). They are also both very polite, personable and easy to have a conversation with so I knew they would be great choices for ushers since they were the one's our guests would encounter first. Oh, and we also asked them to be on hand to make sure everyone knew to find their seat on the seating chart if they looked a little lost...our DOC ended up taking care of that for the most part though from what I'm told.

I'm just asking my brothers to welcome people and hand out programs. Everyone can find a seat just fine but it's nice to see a welcoming face and answer any questions.

My 18 year old nephew and a friend of the family of the same age will be our ushers. They would both be at the wedding. I will be getting them both a gift card to their favorite places to eat. I wanted them to feel appreciated.

We are just using our GMs for this.

You don't have to but FH has a lot of close friends that he wants involved in the wedding that aren't his GMs so he's asking them to be ushers. His friends appreciate it and love feeling included.

My nephews are too old to be ring bearers but too young to really be in the bridal party so they will be "ushering" to whatever extent ends up being needed since idk if we'll be doing programs or not. They'll probably pass out programs or bubbles or anything along those lines but most importantly they will both walk my mom down the aisle.

My fiancé is using 2 of his friends to be ushers. We wanted to keep out sides equal and he wants them to be involved so he made them ushers. They will probably help sit people and pass out programs or direct people to their chairs

I am only having an usher so that we have someone to open the door for the BMs, MOH and bride to walk down the aisle. Other then that we wouldn't have needed one. The door we will be coming in is the front door of the chapel (no other doors between the chapel) so we can't just leave it open for the BP as there is nowhere for them to stand without being seen.