{"id":341,"date":"2011-05-05T05:45:39","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T05:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themanorrestaurant.com\/blog\/?p=341"},"modified":"2023-01-03T14:43:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T19:43:56","slug":"new-trends-in-bridal-party-selections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/new-trends-in-bridal-party-selections\/","title":{"rendered":"New Trends in Bridal Party Selections"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Bridal

Bridal Party <\/p><\/div>\n

Bridal party members are selected for their best-friend status, their closeness as sisters and cousins, their value to the bride and groom, and their enthusiasm for assisting in wedding plans. In today\u2019s weddings, the bride\u2019s lineup and the groom\u2019s lineup are more personalized than ever, sometimes comprised of unexpected participants.<\/p>\n

Here are some ways in which our New Jersey and New York City-region brides and grooms have invited very special people into their bridal parties<\/a>:<\/p>\n

On the Bride\u2019s Side:<\/p>\n

\u2022 The bride may invite close male friends to serve as \u2018bride\u2019s attendants.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2022 The bride may select her closest male friend or brother to be her \u2018Man of Honor,\u2019 in place of the traditional maid of honor.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The bride may ask her mother to be her Matron of Honor.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The bride may have more than one maid or matron of honor, perhaps one of each, perhaps three if she\u2019d like to honor multiple friends or sisters.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The bride may invite her groom\u2019s sisters to be bridal party members.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The bride may choose instead to have only a circle of flowergirls, including her nieces, friends\u2019 children and perhaps her own daughters, instead of adult bridesmaids.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The bride may invite tweens and teens to be \u2018junior bridesmaids.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2022 The bride no longer feels any compulsion to leave out a friend who will be pregnant at the time of the wedding. Today\u2019s bridal gown designers now offer so many beautiful maternity bridesmaid dresses that it\u2019s quite common to see many radiant, pregnant bridesmaids standing up for the bride.<\/p>\n

On the Groom\u2019s Side:<\/p>\n

\u2022 The groom may invite close female friends to stand on his side, serving as a \u2018groom\u2019s attendant\u2019 or \u2018grooms woman.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2022 The groom may select his closest female friend to stand up as his \u2018Best Woman,\u2019 although some of our New Jersey brides prefer to think of themselves as the Best Woman of the day, choosing instead the title of \u2018Groom\u2019s Honored Attendant\u2019 for this female bridal party participant.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The groom may ask his father to be his best man.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The groom may have more than one best man.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The groom may invite the bride\u2019s brothers to be groomsmen.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The groom may include more than one ring-bearer, as we see often with our local wedding couples who have several boys in their family circle.<\/p>\n

Since New Jersey is home to so many different cultures and faiths, our couples often subscribe to the practices of their heritages and religions, which may present unique opportunities within the bridal party. For instance, in a heritage that embraces a wedding ritual of having a married couple named as the bride and groom\u2019s \u2018mentor married couple,\u2019 they too may be included in the wedding party.<\/p>\n

Bridal parties are getting larger right now, with over eight members on the average. Many of our local wedding couples tell us that they wish for larger wedding couples so that there are more bridesmaids to share the planning and payment responsibilities for a bridal shower or bridal lunch, not just three to bear the role. Another factor is an inclusive mindset, with couples wishing to include more friends, not leave anyone out. Some couples create their bridal party size from the traditional formula of one groomsman for every fifty guests, so they formulate their wedding party size from there. And some couples say that a larger bridal party allows for their desired effect at a large, formal wedding.<\/p>\n

Best,
\nMichael Mahle, Director of Communications, Pleasantdale Ch\u00e2teau<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bridal party members are selected for their best-friend status, their closeness as sisters and cousins, their value to the bride and groom, and their enthusiasm for assisting in wedding plans. In today\u2019s weddings, the bride\u2019s lineup and the groom\u2019s lineup are more personalized than ever, sometimes comprised of unexpected participants. Here are some ways in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,59,37,36],"tags":[111,112,483],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bachelorette-party-ideas","category-bright-ideas-for-your-wedding","category-wedding-ideas","category-wedding-planning","tag-bridal-party","tag-wedding-parties","tag-wedding-planning"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}