Asking male friends to be wedding attendants in place of bridesmaids!
I got pre-engaged a year ago and I am seeing our engagement in the near future but I have a dilemma. My boyfriend and I have a few female friends but none that we're particularly close to and I feel that the wedding party should be close to the bride and groom, but this is starting to scare me because I won't have any bridesmaids. Both of us have a good share of very close male friends and both of our best friends are male as well. I've seen somewhere that having males on both sides of the wedding party is okay. Is this true, can my entire wedding party be male? and if so, 1.) what are the attendants titles if they are male? 2.) how do they participate in the ceremony and reception? HELP I need to know so that I know if i have to start making girlfriends lol!
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Re: [abuzz05] Asking male friends to be wedding attendants in place of bridesmaids!
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Dear Comfortable with Males,
Too funny. Start making girlfriends?? It is good to have a sense of humor when planning a wedding.
You may have all males in the bridal party. This is not a problem. You would call your attendants, 'attendants'. Your Maid of Honor would be an Honor Attendant. They would perform all of the same duties as females would in both the ceremony and reception. Your recession would just be all men walking by themselves, not pairing up. Also you probably wouldn't have them dancing with the groomsmen during the reception :)
This brings up a good point though. One of the groomsman's duties is to dance with unescorted females. Now, you could ask your attendants to do the same. There wouldn't be any non-dancing escorted women at your reception.
Asking male friends to be wedding attendants in place of bridesmaids!
