Wedding party

You are not obligated to have anyone stand with you... choose the people you cant imagine not being up there with you. I have three (my sister, cousin, and best friend). Choose people who make you excited to have them with you.

Good luck and happy planning! 🍀

I think just having one person is perfectly fine if that is the person who you are closest with. Don't stretch it to include people who will stress you out, but I also think it's fine to include your own nieces and not FHs. I was my sister's MOH at 16 (she had a huge wedding party though) so 18 is fine. Alternatively, you could stick with the plan to not have BMs but invite those couple of girl friends and nieces to get ready with you day of. They won't have the responsibilities that come with being a BM but it might be fun to have a little group to do HMU with.

Like others have said choose who you and FH want up there with you. I think it's not a bad idea to choose your neice and one of his neices just as a nice gesture of uniting two families. But you shouldn't feel obligated to do so.

I would tell my sisters that i don't want a big bridal party and couldn't choose between the 3 of them. Maybe give them some 3 different tasks like giving a toast, being a hostess/greeter, and the other helping with your transport of all your belongings to the venue. So they are a part of the day without ever really being involved so much as to cause you any unnecessary stress.

Hope it works out!!

You are not required to have anyone in your wedding. My husband didn't realize until about a month before the wedding is half brother is the only sibling not in our wedding. His younger brother, his sister, my brother and my sister were all in the wedding, but not his half brother. His half brother's four children were in our wedding though. My husband just isn't as close to his half brother as his other siblings because he wasn't raised with the half brother. The half brother is ten years old than my husband and didn't have a relationship with my husband's father so my husband didn't even know he had an older brother until he was 8. The half brother was fine with not being in the wedding, but my husband felt bad after realizing he was the only sibling not in the wedding. My husband also choose to have his best friend as his best man instead of his younger brother, but he has a better relationship with his best friend. It hurt his brother's feelings, but after they talked and my husband explained his reasoning his brother understood. Your sisters may not like that they aren't in your wedding, but you should pick those you are closest to as bridesmaids.