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Who are you making your maid of honour?
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There was no doubt who I would pick as my MOH. Stephanie and I have been best freinds since kindergarten! We are now both 24 and I’m engaged to the love of my life and have the worlds best freind and MOH at my side! We have been through everything together and she is the biggest support of anything and everything I do. I love her SO much and tell her every cahnce I get. After high school she moved 6 hours away. Recieving and sending letters quite frequently is not uncommon and always a nice surprise in the mail box among the bills! Even with the distance, our relationship is as strong as ever and I can’t thank her enough for everything she does, life and wedding wise, Anyone would be so lucky to know her and have her in their life.
… well for me this was very easy, I’m having TWO MOH’s. My sister will stand next to me and my best friend/sister
(friends since grade 2), will also stand next to me. It was very important for both to be a part of this special day. Some people may think its strange but to me there are no rules and its our day : )
I am having my soon to be sister in law as my Maid of Honor. I have wanted a sister ever since I was small and although I have been blessed with many friends, my sister in law to be is a wonderful person. PLUS, I get the added bonus of having my brother be the best man! We are all happy!!
So i finally made up my mind on who I’d take as my Maid of Honor and I asked her last week… Now I regret it!!! :o( How do I go back on my question?? or can I???
I was torn when choosing my MoH — older sister, my future sister-in-law, my bud I’ve known for 21 years. I asked my sister even though I knew she’d decline … I wasn’t hurt especially knowing she’d be playing a huge role in the planning of the big day. So, it was a toss up between a friend of 21 years and a future sister-in-law I barely know. Decision was pretty easy from there — friend (who’s almost like a sister) of 21 years hands down. I am including FSIL in the wedding as my bridesmaid :)
I chose my best friend from first grade to be my maid of honor. she is the friend i have had the longest. i chose my close friend Becky to be a bridesmaid and also my fiance’s cousin. i didn’t tell them what their roles were in terms of who was maid of honor until recently because i know my best friend, and she will be very meticulous when it comes to details and i’m afraid she’ll become “monica” on “friends” lol from the episode of Phoebe’s wedding.
I am having 2 maid of honors. I couldn’t choose between my sister or my best friend who has been there for me through thick and thin. They are both excited about the idea since they don’t have to do the speech alone and it is less nerve wracking for them.
I’ve only recently become engaged, so I’m really not certain exactly what im going to do. But as it stands now I have 4 Bridesmaids, and 2 Maids of Honor. My Mother to be the Matron of honor if she accepts, and my best friend of 12 years to be my Maid of Honor. She’s been my everything for so long – I can’t imagine a better wedding than having My mother there, and my best friend with me at the altar…
I am making my cousin, Kassandra, my maid of honor. We grew up more like sisters than cousins and as children we were often mistaken for twins. She’s not only my family but she’s also my best friend and confidante. She deffinately makes my life more rosey.
I chose my fiance’s younger sister.
My maid of honor is actually my younger brother. my brother is my best friend ,other than my fiance. I wouldn’t want anyone else by my side on my wedding day.
I am making my best friend for the past couple of years my maid of honor. I was the maid of honor at her wedding, and I wouldn’t want anyone else up there beside me. I know she will do an awesome job, she like a sister to me.
i have chosen my two best friends that have always been there, so i’ll have two maids of honor and no brides maids. i would never be able to chose between them so i refuse to, this is a special day in all our lives and i want only happiness….. the more time passes the more i love the idea..:)
My hearth aches every day thinking about who to have as my MoH….All my good friends from school are no longer in my life. Why?!?! Because after surviving a near death experience, I realized that none of them cared enough to show up at the hospital to visit me, and I was there for over a month… I realized that all of these girls that I was with almost every weekend, where just there for the good times and for when it was important to them. Trough out that hole month, the only girl that either called me or my parents or came to see me and this every day was my brother’s ex-girlfriend. Our relationship actually really started after they broke up. They were together for about 3-4 years so almost all of my family knows her and than, 1 year later we became the best of friends. My brother has been with another girl now since 3 years. They were almost a year together went I was in the hospital. My parents live 2 minutes away from the hospital I was at. At that time, my brother still lived there and his girlfriend was kind of to… So even being 2 minutes away from the hospital, she never came to see me, never called me, never even sent me a card…It broke my hearth because we did have a good relationship. With time, I accepted it but never forgot about it. To this day, it still pinches my hearth when I think about it. Today, we do get along but I just feel as she is to cold of a person to have by my side on my day. What kind of a speech would she give?!?! “Well, I’ve never been there for her, not even when she almost died but being her brothers girlfriend, it give me the privileged to be her MoH”. How embarrassing.. I don’t know what to do anymore… People always say, keep it in the family, it’s always better. God I wish but I don’t have any sisters or close cousins…The closes friend that I have his my brothers ex-girlfriend. If I asked her to be my MoH, would that make me the worst person on this planet??? And if I have her as MoH, it is out of the question to have my bro as my fiance’s best man. Having my bro paired up with his ex instead of his girlfriend, OMG it’s impossible. I would feel so uncomfortable. And I can’t asked them all. What do I do??? Can someone help me!?!?! I would so much appreciate an outsiders opinion. Thank you so much!!!!!
I’m having my younger sister as my maid of honour. She’s my best friend and knows me better than anyone. She’s actually getting married 3 months before me, and I’m her maid of honour, so its a really special time that we get to share together.
my mom is my maid of honour but the story is…she isn’t my real mom but i love her like she is..she is my inspiration and i really look up to her for being so strong! she has always been there for me and on this day i really need her to be there..right beside me!
Although I dont have a sister but a dozen close friends, I have decided to chose my cousin as my maid of honour. I helped raise her and she is the closest thing I have to a sister. My friends understand as we did not want a bridal party because it would become to overwhelming and we didnt want to offend any of our friends by not choseing one of them to join our party.
I have also asked both of my sisters to be my Maids of Honour. They are both younger than me, and all three of us are very close. They will be splitting the typical duties between the two of them. I couldn’t imagine having to choose between the two of them.
I decided my best friend since I was 8 should be the maid of honour. This was an easy and hard decision because she doesn’t personally believe in getting married but she understands and supports my decision to get married. She told me that only because we’ve been friends for 20+ years that she would do this and for no one else.
I’m going to have my cousins wife so I guess my cousin-in-law aka my bestie!! Once I finally met her we became fast friends it’s great because it seems as though we’re one in the same. I always joke around with my cousin and ask him “How does it feel?” “How does what feel” “Well, knowing that you married your cousin?” hahahahaha… Good thing he has a great sense of humour.
They are also our photographers!! Some of the most gifted photogs I’ve ever seen!! It just all made sense for her to be my Matron of Honour – there’s no better fit seeing as the only person who knows me better is my future Husband!
I knew who my maid of honour was going to be since I was little; who else could it be but my little sister? She was my best friend from the beginning, and there’s nobody else I would want. However, my little sister passed away in a car accident about six years ago. It’s been so difficult to have her missing from my life, but to have her missing from such an important part of my life, my wedding, is so sad. I had a difficult decision to make – who could really fill those shoes? How could I possibly give her role as my maid of honour to someone else?
So we decided that I wouldn’t give her role away. My best friend, my “second in command” as we’re calling her, will help my sister do all the physical things a maid of honour needs to do, but for all other purposes and in my program, my little sister is my maid of honour, and I know she will be by my side on the day of my wedding, as she is every day.
My Maid Of Honour is actually My Man of Honor. My Baby brother, he has been my closest friend my entire life and I always thought if girls get to have their sisters as a maid of honour then I should get to have my bro! He is being so great about it and has actually been way more gung ho about the role than I thought.
I have 4 bridesmaids…2 cousins and 2 best friends….I refuse to choose between them all so I will not officially have a maid of honour. Although I do have to figure out who I want to witness the marriage certificate. :O
I have 6 bridesmaids, and haven’t chosen my maid of honour yet. Actually, I am not sure if I am going to choose one. Obviously I have to choose someone to walk down the aisle before the others, and my fiance did choose a best man, but I think I am going to just match everyone based on height and how well they match with the groomsmen. I’ve told a few of the bridemaids about this plan and they have been supportive of it.
I am doing the SAME thing Crystal… I have 6 bridesmaids and I have explained to them that each of them played an important role in my life it would be impossible to choose one. We are dividing the maid of honour duties so that everyone has something to do for the ceremony! :)
I have a large wedding party, but hands down since I was a little girl I always knew my big sis Kristen would be my maid of honour! I love her to death and no one knows me as well as her. She is such a beautiful person and I am honoured to have her standing beside me on the most important day!
My matron of honour is my best friend, Barb, and honestly the term “best friend” doesn’t even cover it correctly. Some might call her my “adopted sister” (not in the legal sense…) because we have that close sisterhood bond or my “twin” because we are so much alike it is frightening, but again, that wouldn’t cover it. She’s my right arm, a shoulder to lean on, that voice in my head when I’ve done something ridiculous or don’t know which way to decide, etc, etc… She was there to see me through the darkest points in my life, always with a helping hand, a smile, encouragement, and some sillyness to get me through…and I try to repay the favor whenever and however I can. We’ve been able to celebrate the greatest joys together too (including her own wedding to a man I now also consider a best friend). We’ve only known each other 8 years, and yet I can’t even remember not having her in my life. Our lives have made us drift apart in physical distance, but nothing can separate our friendship. Having her in my life, it was the easiest decision I’ve ever had to make to ask her to be my Matron of Honour…in fact, she will be my only attendant…and neither of us can wait!
My Maid of Honour is one of my best friends. She was there for me through the akwardness of high school, the boys, the break ups, failing University classes, crazy ex’s…you name it, she was there. And no matter how busy we both get and even if we don’t see each other all the time, we know we’re still so close, and when we do hang out it’s like nothing ever changed.
I am making Nicole my maid of honour, we met the 1st day of grade nine and have been best friends ever since, we are so close even her two sisters are two of my bridesmaids. She has been there through the break ups, high school, Ryan (lol loser), and the best of all our sons are five weeks apart. I love her and wouldn’t change our relationship.
I have chosen my bestest friend Faith to be my Matron of Honour. We haven’t been best friends for very long, only about 5 years, however, she is the bestest best friend I could have ever asked for. She has been a light into my life and been there beside me when everything seemed so dim. She is an inspiration to me and I am so honoured to be her Maid of Honour for her wedding also. She is my sister in Christ and we’re even going to be neighbours after marriage very soon! I love her so much and I am so honoured to know she will be standing beside me that very special day.
The only “tradition” I’m sticking to with my wedding is the fact that I’ve decided to get married at all! My “Maid of Honour” is going to be my step-daughter, who’s 18 and has been in my life for the last ten years. Though I have three adult sisters – one of whom is my identical twin sister and for whom I was her maid of honour many years ago. My mother was the only person truly surprised by my decision; my twin will be involved in the ceremony in another meaningful way and is perfectly satisfied with her role. My step-daughter was completely touched by my request. It’ll be my step-children standing with us only, no bridesmaids or groomsmen per se.
I originally asked my little sister (who’s four years younger than me) if she would be my maid of honour, but was disappointed when she was not as excited as I had hoped she would be. I finally sat down and talked to her, and realized that she was overwhelmed my the huge responsibility of the maid of honour. She was going to have alot of changes in her life in the next year, such as moving to a new city, and starting her aesthetics courses. She thought it would be better if I asked one of my friends. So, with her as one of my bridesmaids, I had a couple of friends to chose from. One of my best friends that I met in grade twelve got married a year and a half ago, and I was her maid of honour. But I realized that we lived in two completely different areas of our province, and that she was busy with her own husband and new life. So I ended up chosing my other best friend whom I met in eleventh grade, who had been there through both my grandparents passing away, and other family tragedies. My fiance was actually the one who suggested her, and she is extremely organized and reliable. And we lived closer together, and now actually live in the same town again. It turned out really well, and my sister still has a big role in my wedding.
I’ve picked my cousin and best friend to be my maid of honour! In fact, I didn’t even have to ask her! She got married recently and I was ‘maid of honour’ for her. I love her like a sister and wouldn’t have it any other way. We have such a wonderful friendship and relationship, if she wasn’t there I’d be a total scatter brain!
I chose my sister to be my maid of honour. We are 5 years apart in age and therefore did not always get along well growing up. We were always there for each other nonetheless and in the past few years we’ve become very close. I don’t have many girlfriends, but she is the one person I can tell anything to or ask advice on for anything. She never judges and always does her best to comfort me with good advice. I was honoured to be a part of her wedding last year as a bridesmaid, I felt so honoured seeing as the rest of her bridal party consisted of friends only. I can’t wait for my sister to help me plan my wedding!
My choice was easy, I picked my younger brother to be my Man of Honour! There is just the two of us in our family and we have always been close. The best is joking about what his “dress” will look like!!
I have always thought that my Aunt, who is 6 years older than me would be my MOH. Then as we got older said had said that she just wanted to be the blubbering “Aunt of the Bride”. However when the day came that I was going to get married, I asked her and she is very honoured to by my MOH and though my best friend of 13 years was choice number 2 I know that they will share the duties equally. They are both my best friends and both have been there for me during thick and thin.