I've never liked the idea of HUGE wedding parties, so I picked my 3 best friends to be bridesmaids. My fiance is having his brother as a groomsmen however, and now my two sisters, 39 and 40 (I'm 25) are complaining to my mom that they're not bridesmaids....sigh. I love them and never wanted to offend them...
SO---what are some other ideas of having them participate in the wedding ceremony? No 'guestbook attendants', but something creative and fun! One idea was to ask one of them to be the witness when we sign our marriage certificate...
Ideas???
Re: Role for sisters that are not bridesmaids?
PS - just because they are your sisters and they are complaining to mom doesn't mean you HAVE to include them. Being family doesn't give you an atuomatic WP pass.
If you're getting married in a Catholic Church, you can also have them bring up gifts.
If you were planning on doing a Unity Candle or Sand Ceremony, you can include them in that.
Otherwise, there is always the option of just adding them on as BMs at this point. Your sides don't need to be even, and your BMs aren't obligated to do anything aside from get the dress and show up wearing it, so it's not like they'd be "ruining" things (If that's what excluding them is about). Just ordered 2 more bouquets and it's done.
If you fire a WP member, you're against America.
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I have heard that one of the step sisters (in particular) are kind of upset that she's not in the wedding -- she's closer to my age, so we're kind of friends too... but we cannot have everyone. There is no rule stating that everyone needs to be involved, so don't feel bad about not having them. It's your wedding, remember that.