Choosing Your Wedding Attendants

Arranging a wedding party is a huge responsibility. This responsibility can be handled properly only by sharing the work with family and friends. Some people are fun lovers while others are responsible. Not everyone can handle a responsibility properly. Hence we need to choose the wedding attendants carefully.

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Wedding attendants include: the Maid of Honor, the Best Man, the Bridesmaids, the Groomsmen, the Flower Girl and the Ring Bearer. For managing the show well, one needs a pair of attendant for every 35-50 guests. Though it is not fixed, each of attendants is expected to take care of certain responsibilities. Let’s see the various responsibilities linked to each attendant traditionally.

Maid of Honor

The maid of honor can be a special friend who helps in finding the wonderful wedding dress, keeping the group of bridesmaid on time and help you through the jitters of wedding on the wedding day. She may also be willing to help the bride do the wedding related shopping, writing the details in the invitations, putting labels on seating cards, planning for Bachelorette party and wedding shower, take care of minor details of dressing on the wedding day and put her signature on your marriage certificate.

All these can either be performed by a sister, a cousin or a very close friend who is willing to take up the responsibility.

Best Man

Best Man does similar work for groom as the maid of honor does for the bride. He plans for the Bachelorette party, helps you reach the church on time, counsels the groom through the wedding, helps in finding the perfect wedding suit etc. Best man can be your brother or a friend who matters to you and is happy to do the duty.

Bridesmaids

Bridesmaids are the group of girls who can take up the responsibilities and at the same time add fun to the environment. They should be willing to buy matching dresses as per your choice. They should keep a track of wedding shower gifts, help with the ceremony rehearsal, and plan for shuttling guests who are coming via air. Bridesmaids can be chosen from sisters, cousins, close friends as well as groom’s sisters.

Groomsmen

Male siblings from bride’s as well as the groom’s side, cousins and friends can be the groomsmen. They should be willing to rent a tuxedo, assist the best man to plan for the Bachelor party, come to the wedding venue before time and greet the guests, decoration of getaway car and dance with the bridesmaids.

The Flower Girl and the Ring Bearer

These two child attendants are chosen from family. They can also be children of close friends. The Flower Girl carries a basket of flowers till the aisle on the wedding time while the Ring Bearer carries a pillow which has the original or replicas of the wedding ring for the bride. The children chosen for this kind of responsibilities are usually above four years of age.

The group of attendants helps in making the occasion special for the bride, the groom, the family on both the sides as well as the guests. When all of them do their work well, a wedding ceremony becomes memorable for all.

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