who are your bridesmaids?

I have 6 girls.

My MOH Is my SIL (bro's wife)
My cousin
My FH's sister
and the other three are my three closest friends-one of whom's wedding I was in two almost years ago.

My sister is my MOH
Future step-daughter is my Jr. BM
FI niece is FG

MOH - my sister
BM's:
Friend from college
friend from high school
friend from high school job

I have 8 girls

MOH-sister
BM1-childhood friend
BM2-childhood friend
BM3-friend since JHS
BM4-friend since HS
BM5-friend since HS
BM6-friend since HS
BM7-friend since HS
BM8- FSIL (one of them, he has 5 but she is the one I am closest to)
I really didn't want such a big BP, but I can't leave any of these girls out.
We have been through alot together. I see it this way: I am blessed to have
so many dear and close friends.

The bridesmaids in my FW's wedding party are people that she knows and tends to like.

(That has to be a classic example of 1am in the morning humor.. geez)

Allrighty...

Seriously.. they are her closest friends and her sister is her MOH. They are all a very wonderful group of ladies from that she has known for a good amount of time.

MOH is my sister
BM 1 is FSIL
BM 2 is one of my best friends I've known since kindergarden
BM 3 is my roommate from my first semester at WDW
BM 4 is my roommate from my first semester at WDW
BM 5 is my roommate from my second semester at WDW and we lived together for 2 years after that.

FG 1 is my cousin's daughter
FG 2 is FH's cousin's daughter

RB 1 is my cousin's son
RB 2 is FH's cousin's son

Have not picked a MOH yet.
3 Sister in laws
1 friend from college
2 friends from home, possibly a third

A combo, really . . . .

My cousins, my friends, my fsil's, FH cousin, FH nieces . . .

My MOH is my best friend since kindergarten. The other people in my bridal party are friends from college and work that I am really close too. And then my jr. BM is my cousin.

best friend- MOH
sister - BM
sister - BM
FSIL - BM
my sisters and i made a decision that since we could not choose who would be our maid of honor, we would have friends for MOH. for us that has worked out pretty well. I decided not to start asking friends to be in the wedding party because that would open a whole new can of worms.

2cousin, sister is moh
bm is brother, cousin and bil are groomsmen

My 2 Sisters are My MOHs
My 1 Cousin
My 1 Best friend
My 2 Close friends

They are my 5 closest friends!

MOH is my best friend from H.S.
2 BMs are friends from H.S.
1 BM is a friend from MOH's college
1 BM is a friend from work

MOH is my sister
MY BMs are: my best friend, FI's niece and my cousin's girlfriend (they have been around for 10 years)

i have eleven...(yikes)
1 MOH=cousin/like sister
4 BM are my friends
3 are FH's cousins
1 is fh's sister in law
1 is fh's goddaughter
1 is my little cousin/like a niece

Just 2 cousins.

My friends are all kinda a package deal, & we wanted to keep it small.

We may have all friends as readers, since we have all family in the bridal party.
(his 2 cousins too)

Four (4) women total:

College Friend, Maid of Honor
College Friend, Bridesmaid
College Friend, Bridesmaid
Cousin of the Groom, Junior Bridesmaid

I had a really heart breaking, stressful, frustrating time finding my BMs. I received 3 rejections for one BM position offer. The first was a relative of mine who felt indifferent and uncomfortable as she's unmarried and 3 years older than I am. Her family is pushing her for marriage and she's not ready for it when I was engaged already. The second rejection was an old college acquatiance chum of mine who had money problems and cannot afford the BM attire, shower, etc. financial duties of a BM. The third and final rejection was the most heart breaking and hurtful which I was close to my 13 year old cousin I was going to make her fill a BM position and change her title to Jr. BM because of her age. Her parents, on the other hand were very controlling, domainating people who did not want their only child to be influence with American values and American lifestyle. She lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia--a potential OOT BM candidate. There were round of heart breaking and hurtful e-mail back and fourth to each other destroying our relationship as cousins. I'd treated her more than just a cousin but like a sister. At first she said in her e-mail 'I would LOVE to be a bridesmaid' however in latter e-mails 'I never have any intention of being a BM. I'm scare to walk down the aisle. etc.' I was so angry, hurt, disspointed, and broken hearted. Our relationship was never the same. So I was force to seek other resources for another BM to fill this cursed final position that was open. I don't have many friends who are close on this level and don't have any sisters or SIL-to-be either. Many of my female cousins or DH's
female cousins live OOT and won't want the position. I sought through my old college address book and planner to contact one of my college friend. Thankfully, she said yes and was very eager and committed into fulling her duties. She was the best of my BMs in carrying out her BM duties.

Later I was also looking for young attendants, FG and RB which many of our extended family live OOT or in another continent. They refuse to travel to NYC to take part on our big day. We had 2 additions to our wedding party with Junior attendants. They too fulfilled their duties 110%. In the end we were very happy with our special friends in our wedding party. Everyone else--their loss.

wow, sorry you had such a rough time. I've never herd of peopel sayign no, even when they wanted to, they felt obligated.

One of my cousins will be 16 this year, and I am going to call & ask her mother first, but I'm sure she'll say yes, but I'm hoping she means it & not just that feels obligated.