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Poll: Being a bridesmaid

uppereastgirluppereastgirl member
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1.  How many times (as an adult) have you been a bridesmaid/MOH?2.  What is the least you've spent to be a bridesmaid?3.  What is the most you've spent to be a bridesmaid (excluding your gift to the couple)?4.  What is your least favorite part of being a bridesmaid?5.  What is the worst demand/situation you've faced as a bridesmaid?6.  What was the favorite bridesmaid dress you've worn?
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  • soontobemrsdavissoontobemrsdavis
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    edited December 2011
    1. How many times (as an adult) have you been a bridesmaid/MOH? 1 technically i was an adult when i was in my dad's wedding. I just turned 18. I will be inmy first real wedding next september.2. What is the least you've spent to be a bridesmaid? I wasnt asked to participate in anything financially formy dad's wedding.3. What is the most you've spent to be a bridesmaid (excluding your gift to the couple)? Time will tell4. What is your least favorite part of being a bridesmaid? Havent had a bad experience yet5. What is the worst demand/situation you've faced as a bridesmaid? N/A6. What was the favorite bridesmaid dress you've worn? N/A

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  • Amerz20Amerz20 member
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    edited December 2011
    I have only been in two weddings. One when I was 10. The other I was a MOH when I was 18. So I can really answer these.
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  • uppereastgirluppereastgirl member
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    edited December 2011
    1. How many times (as an adult) have you been a bridesmaid/MOH?  42. What is the least you've spent to be a bridesmaid?  Around $250, but it should have been $180.  The bride paid for our dresses (mostly because the wedding had been postponed for 2 years after she ordered the dresses but before we paid for them).  My only costs were hair and makeup, but the stupid makeup person put fake eyelashes on me without asking (and without me realizing that she was) and then charged $70 for it.3. What is the most you've spent to be a bridesmaid (excluding your gift to the couple)?  Probably around $5000.  Destination wedding (in Italy), destination bachelorette party (in Vegas), $400 for dress and alterations, expensive hair and makeup (300 euros)... ugh.4. What is your least favorite part of being a bridesmaid?  Waking up early the morning of the wedding to get hair and makeup done, waiting around all morning for my turn of hair and makeup5. What is the worst demand/situation you've faced as a bridesmaid?  Destination bachelorette for a destination wedding.  I had a lot of fun and was okay with the idea in theory, but it was a bad economy, and two out of five of her bridesmaids didn't even come to the bachelorette because of the combined costs.6. What was the favorite bridesmaid dress you've worn?   (in navy)
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  • kpeteleykpeteley
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    edited December 2011
    1. How many times (as an adult) have you been a bridesmaid/MOH? 42. What is the least you've spent to be a bridesmaid? $200 - it was when I was 20 3. What is the most you've spent to be a bridesmaid (excluding your gift to the couple)? $1000+? - wedding was cancelled 4 days before.4. What is your least favorite part of being a bridesmaid? Nothing really - except if the dress is bad.5. What is the worst demand/situation you've faced as a bridesmaid? Having to go to a wedding 2 wks before mine in W. Virginia.  I haven't really had any bad situations.6. What was the favorite bridesmaid dress you've worn? A pink Alvina Valenta tea length strapless (pale pink)
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  • jess_and_pauljess_and_paul
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    edited December 2011
    I've been a BM twice. For my brother/SIL's wedding, i was asked to fork over $500+ dollars for the shower. Mind you, i had no say in any of the planning since i was away on my own honeymoon (they got married 2 months after me). I didn't mind spending the money, but it would have been nice to have been *asked* if would want to spend that kind of money instead of just assuming!
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  • 30may09bride30may09bride
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    edited December 2011
    1. How many times (as an adult) have you been a bridesmaid/MOH?  3 times2. What is the least you've spent to be a bridesmaid?  ~300 (dress and a chip in for shower and b-party)3. What is the most you've spent to be a bridesmaid (excluding your gift to the couple)? ~1100 including dress, hair, m/u, 2 nights lodging, shower, b-party4. What is your least favorite part of being a bridesmaid? I really don't mind any of it.  5. What is the worst demand/situation you've faced as a bridesmaid? Never had any demands, the only slightly sticky situation was when I was in my MOH's wedding. Her sister was her MOH, but the 2 of them aren't exactly friends (and her sister doesn't know her likes/dislikes at all). So, trying to plan the shower bascially without her, but not making her feel bad was difficult.  Thankfully her sister isn't exactly a take charge kind of person, so it all worked out just fine, but one of the other BM and I had to tread lightly during the process.  6. What was the favorite bridesmaid dress you've worn? I guess the one I wore for the first wedding I was in (5 years ago). It was pretty, black, strapless, flattering, very cute at the time. 
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