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How will/did you handle uneven wedding party?

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    Curlysue    June 5, 2009  

    Right now it looks like I'll have three girls in my bridal party and FI will have two guys. My mother things this can't be done. It's not even she says. I told her things are not what they were when she got married or even a few years ago. Women are branching out and doing things how they want to, even if it's different. I don't want a gal/guy pair walking down the aisle to start the ceremony, just the girls coming in and then I come down the aisle. But what do I do when the ceremony is over and everyone files out? I'll be one guy short. Anyone have ideas?

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    sparkle    November 2009  

    I'm having the MOH and Best Man go down together and then two a BM on both arms of the two groomsmen. You can do the two BM/1 GM too, it would work. Or they all go single file. It can be done.

     
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    worcesterbride    August 15, 2009   live in NYC, wedding in Worcester, MA

    If you have a flower girl or ring bearer, you could have your MOH or a BM walk them out... it could be cute!

     
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    Meowkers    August 27, 2011   Los Angeles, CA

    Have one of the GMs with a girl on each arm. 

     
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    Curlysue    June 5, 2009  

    Such easy fixes I hadn't even thought of! Thanks ladies :)

     
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    perfectbound    October 2008   new york, ny

    I had an uneven number of girls and guys. 3 ladies and 4 men. It's fine! No one is even going to be looking at your wedding party after the ceremony. All eyes will be on you and your groom. If you are really worried about it, have one of your girls walk out on her own or one of your guys accompanied by two girls. he will LOVE that. When it comes time to announce the bridal party, we just had two of our groomsmen accompany one of my girls. It was fun and playful and again, all eyes will be on you! Enjoy and relax.

     
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    emg    October 3, 2009   TX

    I've got four girls and five guys. We are having them walk single file.

     
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    Chantellamus    October 15, 2009  

    yeah its no biggie curlysue! really!

    I am having 4 girls and 5 guys, we are just having the last guy walk down on his own. whatevs. lopsided or not, who cares!

     
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    MrsJBtoBee    September 6, 2009   Seattle

    Haha, my mother had the same response when I told her there were going to be 6 bridesmaids and 4 groomsmen (plus one junior bridesmaid and groomsmen/usher).:) I wasn't willing to cut anyone and my fiance didn't want to add anyone, in the end it's going to be our pictures and we want peope in the pictures that matter to us. For the processional, only the girls will walk in (the guys will already be up there as I'm going to have them act as ushers as well), for the recessional I plan on having two of the groomsmen walk two bridesmaids each back down the aisle... the groomsmen will get a kick out of it. :) Plus I don't think any of the girls really care. That's such a small part of the wedding and everyone is so eager to get out of their seat and to the reception that I don't think they'll be paying that much attention.

     
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    mrsmike    8/9/09  

    We started out with 6 guys and 6 girls, but now...

    We have 6 girls still, and we were down to 2 guys due to military deployments, and then fiance added his younger bro so we were going to do 2 BMs per GM, one on each arm, but now I think one of the 3 GMs is 'filtering himself out" though his wife is a BM, awkward... so at this point we're just not worried about how it looks.  The best man and MOH are married so they can walk together, and then everyone else single file.  Seriously though, nobody cares about that, they only care about the bride and groom.

     
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    MCraig    08-01-09   Colorado Springs

    I have this exact issue! I have 4 BM's and Mr.Craig has 5 GM's. My MOH is a one-of-a-kind and single always looking for Mr. Right or Mr. Rightnow. We've decided to do something cute as the wedding party walks out together ...

    She'll begin walking with the Best Man and about 1/3 of the way she'll say "hold on" and run back and get GM#5 and walk them both the rest of the way!

    It is completely something she would do and it is totally her personality! The boys aren't too upset about it either :)

     
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    karina85    July 11, 2010  

    Have one of the GMs with 2 BMs on either side! I'm sure he'll approve. ;)

     
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    bluespurrs    August 7, 2009   South-central PA, USA, Earth

    We are having 3 BMs and 1 best man plus 3 groomsmen. I never thought of it as being a problem to be perfectly honest! The BMs are walking down the aisle w/o escorts, so it's no big deal!

     
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    Erindesmar    October 17, 2009   Boston, MA

    I have 6 BMs and FI has 5 groomsmen.  I'm not having the guys walk down the aisle with the girls (I think it may be a New England thing...) the guys are lined up with the groom up front and the girls all walk down the aisle alone.  The groomsmen escort the girls out down the aisle.  One guy will walk two girls down the aisle.

     
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    KatieLynn    October 10, 2009   Tulsa, OK

    I think it will be just fine!  I am having 7 BMs and my FI has 5 GMs.  I am going to have the last two guys take two girls out I think!  I've been to weddings where this has been done before!  Don't worry!!!!

     
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    Stacy Marie    July 24, 2010  

    We're doing the same thing, and I'm thinking we might have them walk back down the aisle single file/alternating.  Example:  MOH, Best Man, Bridesmaid 1, Groomsmen 1, Bridesmaid 2, Groomsmen 2, etc.

     

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