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    Lees4308    March 13, 2010   Panama City Beach, FL.

    I'm having a little bit of trouble trying to figure out just how to get my bridesmaids to the ceremony. It's at "Eden Gardens State Park", not sure if any of you have heard of that but it's near & in-between Panama City Beach & Destin, Florida. There's a lot of open greenery & a big Wedding Oak Tree. There's quite a bit of area from the tree to the bathrooms, or from anywhere they could hide and walk out from. I'm coming up on a horse & carriage, so we don't have to worry about that. But as for the bridesmaids...we were thinking of having a limo but that would sort-of conflict our "southern plantation" theme. I was thinking an old-timey car but can't seem to find one in my area that would work for this theme, and that would be big enough for 5 bridesmaids. My dad had the idea of each of the bridesmaids individually walking in on their own horse, with the groomsmen escorting them, holding the horse by it's lead. But then the thought occured to me that these girls dresses may get dirty...etc. My dad said they would have "steps" to get off of the horse so they wouldn't have to fondle with their dresses & such. If you guys have any sort of advice or you've seen anything that would help out, please let me know! Thanks guys so much!

     
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    ejs4y8    June 20, 2009  

    What about a horse drawn carriage? Put all your bridesmaids in there and have them all come out of that? I don't see why two carriages would be weird--you could have the white horse and they could have the brown, lol.

    But is anybody going to see them come out of the car? Won't they be there like, 30 minutes early? I don't get how your processional works....

    We had a plantation wedding and the girls walked out of the house. This place does do horse and carriage for the bride, but I opted out.

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    stephinPA    October 29, 2010   Reading, PA

    I agree with @ejs!

     
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    Lees4308    March 13, 2010   Panama City Beach, FL.

    The 2 different horse & carriages I wouldn't mind, but the place I'm renting the horse & carriage from only have one. So, I don't know if that could work out or not. Your wedding site is beautiful! I wish the girls could walk out of the house, but the only places they could walk out would be way too far away...and it'd just be awkward to watch them walk out from so far. The car idea would be so that they could pull up right where the ceremony site is, like where I would get off from the horse & carriage at, and walk in one by one while the guys meet them at the car and escort them one by one right before I walk through. So, basically the car pulling up would be kind of like the start of the wedding.

     
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    caszos    June 2010   Florida

    What if you just had the bridesmaids out there lik ethe groomsmen are?  I know its not ideal but maybe it would work. 

     
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    ejs4y8    June 20, 2009  

    Hmmmmm. Yeah you don't have a lot of options. Plus, climbing out of a car can be awkward in a dress.

    If the carriage is big enough (one of those large group ones) everyone could pile in =]

    Is there a coordinator at the park you could talk to and see what brides have done in the past? I doubt you're the only one trying to maintain some authenticity. And even so, I don't think using a car would necessarily detract from it. It's not like you're wearing a plantation wedding dress with a hoop skirt.

    I would imagine you coudl contact some car people....I know that sometimes, it's not that they have their own rental company, but sometimes people who actually own the car rent it out for the time. But 5 girls is kind of a lot for a car.

     
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    twocities       Charlottesville, VA and Baltimore, MD

    Would it work to have the carriage drop off all or most of the bridesmaids, and then to go back for you, or you and your MOH?  Would that be a ton of wait time?

     

     

     
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    Lees4308    March 13, 2010   Panama City Beach, FL.

    Yeah, it definitely is a lot of people in one car. I've found a place called "a brides ride" & they have a vintage bug I could rent out, but it doesn't look too spacious & plus, weren't bug's made after the southern plantation era? So, not so sure about that...ergh, this is difficult. I do have a wedding planner who has done many weddings there, and she told me that most bridesmaids get out of a town car. I didn't really want to wait until our next meeting to see if she had any ideas, but I may have to.

     
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    Lees4308    March 13, 2010   Panama City Beach, FL.

    I'm not sure how much time waisted that would be. I'd have to find that out, but I'm not exactly sure if I want to do that just because it'd be me and my dad on the carriage & we thought that since the horse and carriage was mainly for me and him, it was special. But that could be an option, I'll for sure look into it.

     

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