2006-10-24 09:39:36 · 10 answers · asked by jenn m 1 in Family & Relationships ➔ Weddings
MOH DUTIES
* Go wedding gown shopping with the bride and be honest when she steps out of the changing room.
* Help select bridesmaid’s dresses, pay for your dress & accessories.
* Call all the bridesmaids when it’s time for shopping and fittings.
* Help address invitations.
* Help wrap and tag guest favors
* Host a bridal shower and/or bachlorette/stagette party with other bridesmaids. If one of the mom’s is hosting, lend a hand where needed.
* Address and send shower invitations.
*Purchase shower and wedding gifts for couple
* Take RSVP’s for shower.
* Attend rehearsal and rehearsal dinner.
* Help decorate ceremony and reception locations if necessary.
* Helps the bride get dressed on her wedding day.
* It’s your duty to make sure the bride’s veil and train looks nice before and during the ceremony. The photographer can’t stop taking pictures during this time and he/she can’t go up on the altar to straighten out the bride…only you can. Guests will expect this from you.
* Holds the bride’s bouquet during the ceremony.
* Keeps the groom’s wedding ring until the ring exchange, unless the best man or ring bearer are holding them.
* Stand in the receiving line (optional and really is up to the bride).
* Will sit to the bride’s right at the reception (unless the Couple has a "sweetheart table".)
* Signs the marriage certificate as a witness.
* Bustles the bride’s train before reception begins.
* Dance with the best man during wedding party dance.
* Help the best man bring the gifts to the bride and groom’s home
* Help with clean up after reception.
This is the "generally accepted" list of duties
If you are talking about a bridesmaid that is not the MOH...
* Help select bridesmaid’s dresses, pay for your dress & accessories.
*Purchase shower and wedding gifts for couple
* Help address invitations. (as requested)
* Help wrap and tag guest favors (as requested)
* Host a bridal shower and/or bachlorette/stagette party with other bridesmaids. If one of the mom’s is hosting, lend a hand where needed.
* Address and send shower invitations. (as requested)
* Attend rehearsal and rehearsal dinner.
* Will sit at the head table at the reception (unless the Couple has a "sweetheart table".)
* Help with clean up after reception.
2006-10-24 09:54:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Show up on time and in prescribed attire for both rehearsal and wedding day. Stand/walk where they tell you to. Other than that, I don't know that there are any specific bridesmaid duties... I think maid/matron of honor may have some additional responsibilities...
You can certainly offer help for anything the bride might need (run errands, etc.) and try not to be a high-maintenance person (complain, make a fuss, be late, etc.)
It would be nice to throw the bride a shower (as long as you are not her mom or sister) and/or attend a shower for her. You could help plan a bachelorette party for her. You could also help tastefully decorate the new married couple's car after the wedding. At my wedding, this was left to the groomsmen and they basically just put a lot of T.P. all over it and put birdseed in the A/C vents (it was blowing out of there for months afterward)!
Don't forget to buy the couple a gift (you could go in with the rest of the wedding party if you wanted to get some big-ticket item)...
Just a few ideas!
2006-10-24 09:49:10 · answer #2 · answered by Suzanne 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bridesmaids actually have a number of things to do...it is suggested that the bridesmaids help plan, cohost and pay for the bridal shower and bachelorette party; run last minute errands the day of the wedding as needed; serve as a hostess at the reception to answer any questions; and provide emotional support...it may not seem like any of these are important, but as a wedding planner, I can tell you that they are very important...
2006-10-24 11:03:55 · answer #3 · answered by VAWeddingSpecialist 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ARe you the maid of honor or just bridesmaid. Make yourself available to the maide of honor. Otherwise just support the bride in her choice of dress. IF no on else has a problem w/ the dress suck it up and don't through a fit, Sorry just got done w/ a wedding that everyone liked the dress but the one bridesmaide. She through a fit and everyone had one week to go in and retry on the new dress.
2006-10-24 09:51:53 · answer #4 · answered by tera_duke 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Anything and everything to keep the bride happy. As long as the bride isnt going over board...be there to pick stuff out with her specailly the dresses...Set up the batchlerett party with the maid of honor...and just have a great attitude
2006-10-24 09:42:02 · answer #5 · answered by Bo Beeta 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO real duties, they may help with the bridal shower, and if you need alittle bit of help tieing ribbon on to favor boxes, but for the most part they are there to look pretty for your wedding!! The Maid of Honor is the only person who really has duties.
2006-10-24 09:41:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
planning the bridal shower and the bachlorette party, especially the maid of honor
2006-10-24 09:41:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was a brides maid once. It was my job to get the strippers adn orginize the orgy, and keep the bride all sexed up.
2006-10-24 09:41:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
They are guest too.........I feel they should assist the bride with her needs as well.
2006-10-24 09:47:59 · answer #9 · answered by bonbon 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
smile,be poise, and dont drool!!
2006-10-24 10:05:22 · answer #10 · answered by JUBILI83 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋