How did you?

CPBride17 · May 2011

Ask your bridesmaids to be in your wedding? Just curious about everyone's experiences.

j_jaye · May 2011

When I saw them I just straight out asked them. But I think it is a bit of an easier convo here as the bride pays for everything!

AJF021410 · May 2011

I'm not doing bridesmaids

LilMissScareAll · May 2011

Right before we boarded the plane to go back home (from our trip to Chicago where Ben asked my dad for my hand), I sent my sister a text message asking her how she felt about being a bridesmaid. She called me right away and that's how she found out that Ben & I were getting married.

For my best friend, I never really asked her. I started sending her pictures and told her this was her outfit for my wedding. We had said before the engagement that we expected the other person to be up there in each of our weddings. (Her and her BF have started talking about getting married next year)

For fun, these are the pics I had been sending to my BFF, sister, and mom about what they would be wearing:

MarryingmyKnight · May 2011

I just asked my sister and of course she was happy. For my BF the same thing. Both said yes; I am only doing two.

smokeybailey · May 2011

My mom stole my thunder and at dinner with all girls present less than a month after the engagement, she just said, so who are your bridesmaids? Luckily, I planned to ask all of them, but it was still anticlimatic. Boo, mom.

kara811 · May 2011

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/local-wedding-boards_nevada-las-vegas_did-1?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Local%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:91Discussion:de217d4d-829a-4673-8040-e238ba58cb4dPost:081922ea-f9d5-47e5-995c-51e0ef362fb7">Re: How did you?</a>:
[QUOTE]My mom stole my thunder and at dinner with all girls present less than a month after the engagement, she just said, so who are your bridesmaids? Luckily, I planned to ask all of them, but it was still anticlimatic. Boo, mom.
Posted by smokeybailey[/QUOTE]

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</div><div>Oh no! That's funny though.</div><div>
</div><div>My girls are all from different states so I asked each one of them. My sisters have always known they would be part of the wedding even before I got engaged. The rest of my girls, I asked over the phone or when I saw them. They were all very happy and excited about it!</div>

motochick25 · May 2011

Well I thought I would have only a moh, bm, flower girl and ring bearer. I have 2 sisters but I was only going to have my oldest sis as my moh. But my younger sis assumed she would be in it so I couldn't leave anyone out. And that would include my husbands sis too. Once I decided on that then it was easy to ask everyone.

junebug61103 · May 2011

I asked my cousin/MOH and my friend/BM over the phone. FI sisters I had them come over to the house and ask them in person.

Diamond1031 · May 2011

I asked them all in person. I didn't text or email or ask them over the phone. Wait I asked my MOH over the phone because she lives in WI and I've known her since kindercare so it was a given that she would my MOH.

aegrish · May 2011

I sent them flowers from proflowers.com in my wedding colors.

MizLynn · May 2011

I told my MOH that she was my maid of honor when I was telling her the details of how he proposed! The convo just lent itself to 'wedding plans' and she's been my best friend since we were 5 so it's not like I had to wait or think about that decision. Two BMs my FI asked because they were his sisters but even then, it just sort of comes around when people ask about wedding plans. That's pretty much how it went with my whole BP ... someone would ask about the wedding plans, and we'd say, 'this is what we've planned so far, how'd you like to stand up for us in Vegas?' haha!

CamilleJon · May 2011

My BMs are spread out all over the country, so I knew I wouldn't get to ask them all in person, and I didn't want to do it over the phone, so I made a caricature picture to send in the mail.

I cut my head and the head of my 5 BMs from pictures I had. I traced dresses and colored them in my wedding colors and then glued them all on construction paper. I used letters I cut out of magazines to write "Will you be my bridesmaid?" on the bottom of the picture.

I made a care packages with chocolates, cute notepads, nailpolish, and an eyemask and sent them to my BMs in San Francisco, Florida, Colorado, and Wisconsin.

lsvensson · May 2011

Mine are scattered all around the country so I couldn't ask them in person, and I didn't want to ask them over the phone because I didn't want to put them on the spot (since it's a DW there are lots of costs involved so I wanted them not to feel pressured with me breathing heavily on the other end of the line in anticipation of their answer). I e-mailed them with the image below and a long, personalized note to each of them about how much they mean to me, and how much I would love to have them standing by my side on my wedding day.

kasonandjeri · May 2011

Not having any! The horrible bridesmaids dress is a cute idea tho!

amandajean36 · May 2011

my BM's live all over the Midwest, and i'm in DC.

i sent them little packages with a mini bottle of champagne, a Vegas poker chip magnet, and a Godiva chocolate shaped like a wedding cake - along with a hand-written "will you be my BM" card. they all loved it.

MeatAuditor · May 2011

I was super-secret when I talked to my friends about who would be a bridesmaid because I wanted to do something special and surprise them. None of them live in town. I mailed them paper dolls that I made. I am not good at drawing, so I did a lot of googling and tracing the shapes I wanted. I enclosed a letter about why I picked them, and some wedding details like dates and costs and stuff so they'd know what they were getting into.

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