Pairing bridesmaids and groomsmen

SRRL18 · January 2012

I'm not sure if I should post this here or not but I figured since this is the board related to the ceremony I would. If it's in the wrong place could a moderator please move it? Thanks.

So here goes.

I'm having a hard time deciding which bridesmaid will walk down the aisle with which groomsmen. We have 4 attendants each. MOH and 3 bridesmaids, BM and 3 groosmen.

How did you decide how walked with who?

TIA!

natsfans84 · January 2012

My BMs are in order of how long I've known them, so the girl I've known the shortest will walk down first, ending with my sister/MOH who has known me forever. She's who I wanted closest to me.
FI on the other hand is having his best friend (after me of course

) as his BM, then his closer friends. It was hard for me to "rank" my friends though, so I just did it my way.

tenofcups4me · January 2012

I chose my order and he chose his order and then we just matched them up based on our individual orders.

calliopeia2013 · January 2012

The only time the order matters if you have a BM and GM that are a couple- if possible, it's polite to try to have them walk down together; it looks a bit awkward otherwise. And you would typically have the MOH and BM walk together.

naomikb · January 2012

I paired the MOH and BM... my 2 sisters I didn't want paired with my brother so they went with the 2 other GMs who weren't my brother. The tallest sister with the tallest GM, for lack of a better system (they were both quite tall). Then my last friend BM with my brother.

I didn't want to make it seem like people were more important to me than others, so we mixed them up down the line, and I told my sisters that it was in order of age so that they wouldn't get their panties in a knot. Nobody seemed to care. In pictures we got all mixed up, the order was simply for walking down the aisle and standing at the front.

Jbarnettej · January 2012

I like the idea of how long you have known them. Even though I have known some of my BM longer than others, I may be closer with another one. You could do spouses/couples and like others said height... My Matron is married to a GM so I don't think they will walk together.

juma1111 · January 2012

My BM and MOH walked themselves in, as I had 5 ladies and he had 3 men. The men walked in with H and waited at the alter. Then during the procession, H and I walked out, followed by our 2 kids (they walked me down the aisle and wanted to follow Mom and Dad out), then my Jr. BM, then the BM walked with the MOH, and so on. The last 2 bridesmaids walked themselves down the aisle to process and they made it just fine lol.

It really doesn't matter and honestly I didn't think of an order until the night of the rehearsal. I had 2 sisters and 3 girls, so I had my sisters in their alternating because they had a silver accent sash and the other girls didn't so I wanted it alternating on the alter.

wink0erin · January 2012

The night of my cousin's rehearsal she realized she had to decide how to sort her BM's... she was stressed and had no clue, and hadn't selected a MOH either, so the coordinator put us tallest to shortest. When my cousin realized this put her two sisters at the end, she moved them up closer to her... so it was taller sister, shorter sister, taller friend, shorter friend and short cousin. lol.

The GM were at the front waiting at the beginning, we all walked down the aisle alone and went to our spots. At the end we matched up with whoever the next GM was to walk out. I think the GM were tallest to shortest too.

GreenEire · January 2012

We paired the MOH and BM together, obviously. Then for the guys H's brother went second and the other GM went third. For my girls, I paired them with the guys according to height. One of my maids is several inches taller than H's brother, and she said she didn't want to feel like a giant, so I paired her with the other GM, who is her height.

kimiandgary · January 2012

Other than having the MOH and BM walk together you can do it however you please. We aren't have the bridesmaids escorted down the aisle, but for all other purposes my groom put his GM in order and I matched my maids according to height and body type. All my girls are family (plus a friened for 10+ years) so they don't care where they stand.

quiggels219 · January 2012

We have 2 married couples so they are together - then moh and bm are together - then i wanted my sister to stand second in line so we put her with my fi other best friend he's basically just as close to as thebestman - they are kinda like a little three person group and then the final two went by height, but I think they had to b/c we had a gm who is 6'7 and the other is 5'4 and then the two bm are 5'0 and 5'7. So talls went together and shorter went together just for everyone to be comfortable.

saacjw · January 2012

I'm thinking of doing it by personality and then maybe line the GM up by height (all of the BM and myself are within about 4 inches of each other, so not a big deal). My MOH and the BM are really good friends and then my Matron of Honor is an artist and the person I've been friends with the longest and one of the groomsmen is also an artist and the person that my FI has been friends with the longest. My brother and sister get along really well and I think my sister wants to walk with him (he doesn't actually care) and then my FI's sister and the final GM have a lot in common. That way too, only one of them has to walk with someone they just met.

GunzNRoses213 · January 2012

my besties wedding she had her MO and then i'm the shortest and she had me next and had shortest first to tall......short people walking with tall boy... no fun.....so being short was actually first ...[after MO] i'm going to pair up this way as well ...

haha my FI was in a wedding and got paired with his sister and we had to make sure to tell the dj not to announce them as mr. and mrs..since they have the same last name..

Bett2012 · January 2012

We're going by height... but it also works out with length of time we knew them!

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