I think this is a great idea! If your closest friend is a guy or if you have a brother who is very special to you, why not have them as part of your bridal party? On the flip side, I like it when grooms choose their sisters, female cousins or best female friend as their “groomswomen.”
In the past the bride’s brother or the groom’s sister were banished to the other side of the bridal party. In a lot of cases, having the groom’s sister be one of your bridesmaids seemed to be an obligatory request and where’s the sincerity in that? Regardless of gender, the guys and girls who mean the most to the bride and the groom should be allowed to support their actual friend and not symbolically stand on the other side of the altar.
What do you think? Would you ever ask a boy to be part of the bridal party or a girl to be a groomswoman? Why or why not?
PS. Made of Honor was a terrible movie but Michelle Monaghan had the right idea in asking Patrick Dempsey to be her Man of Honor!
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May I say, as an enlightened and progressive male...
ReplyDeleteno.
no, no, no, no.
Not happening.
Not that I have *any* rational reason for these declarations. I just refuse to acknowledge that *anything* that happened in Made of Honor was in any way the "right idea." It's a slipperly slope.
Hahaha. In all honestly, I just wanted to use the photo and I felt the need to add the disclaimer that it was a bad movie but that it still fit the blog post. You know? Ok, I'll stop making excuses now.
ReplyDeletei'd let patrick dempsey be in my wedding party any day.
ReplyDeleteseriously, though, i think this is a fantastic trend. the tradition of bridesmaids and groomsmen started back in the day when women were only allowed to speak to other women (probably), but in today's more progressive society there are lots of mixed-gender bffs, and your friends should be helping you make preparations and standing with you on the altar, not, as you put it, banished to the other side.
when i saw that you had commented on this, i *knew* you were going to write the first part of your comment :)
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