Submitted by: d
Hey, it is pretty hard to narrow down which of your 18 besties can be your bridesmaids. Why not just go with all of them? Unless of course there’s a symbolic reason she went with 18. According to Wikipedia, the number 18 can represent:
- The number of chapters into which James Joyce’s epic novel Ulysses is divided
- Russ Wheeler’s car number in the film ‘Days Of Thunder’
- In Chinese folklore, the Shaolin temple had a group of 18 bronze Monks.
From this, I’ve determined that the bride is either really into stream-of-conscious Irish prose; grew up watching ‘Days Of Thunder’ every Saturday afternoon; or a huge Wu-Tang Clan fan. Or maybe she’s all three.
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or Jewish. the number 18, according to Judaism, is symbolic of life.
I was gonna make a comment about that.
That’s not *exactly* it but if you wanna phrase it in a quicker way then I guess it works.
The eighteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet is chet, which is the first and primary letter in the word for life, “Chai” or חי
This. It is also good form to give money (to charity or as a gift) in multiples of 18.
I’m guessing in that age old “always the bridesmaid, never the bride” scenario, she wanted to pay back all 18 “friends” who made her shell out $250 for “a dress you can DEFINITELY wear again.”
Were there 18 groomsmen too?
I no longer want to hear any crap about my having 7!
I agree, I’d like a whole wedding party photo please!
And also, did they just get to wear whatever black thing they want? I’m confused about the girl on the left wearing a v-neck and sleeves.
I’ve seen it happen before (and will be a part of it when my girlfriend gets married in may) the bride picks a color and lets the bridesmaid choose the style of dress that’s most flattering to her. With large wedding parties (even those that don’t include 18 bridesmaids) you are bound to get girls of all shapes and sizes
That’s waht my neice did. Her colors were black and red and all the girls bought there own dress. some were in black some in red, some in strapless some in knee length some in ghigh length some in full sleeves etc etc.
It looked really tacky!!!! in fact it makes this look like there dresses are uniform
And no matching dresses
I saw this once before, but there were only 3 bridesmaids, and it looked nice.
My wedding didn’t have matching dresses, either, just matching colors. I let each of my (three) bridesmaids pick whatever they liked. I figured it was better for them to wear a style that flattered their shape than for them all to be stuck in a dress that MIGHT look good on only one of them.
Poor groom.
My wife choose 5 bridesmades, pretty much before she finished saying “Yes, I’ll marry you”. I was hard pressed to find 5 guys I knew enough to even out my side. I was tempted to rent some random tuxedos and bring them to the ceremony, where I could choose people who might fit them from the audience.
In the end, I feel bad that some of my cousins knew the only reason they were up there was to make the pictures look symmetrical.
Other way around in mine. My fiance sheepishly told me he had four, count ‘em, four guys he’d asked. I had two bridesmaids, asked a third, pretty much said “screw it, who cares if it’s uneven?”
I don’t think it really matters that much. Similarly, my daughter only had one bridesmaid while there were several guys who stood up with her groom.
The whole even wedding party thing is insane. I had two bridesmaids and my hubby had his best man. You shouldn’t ask people to be in your wedding party just because you want symmetrical photos.
This is an American thing, I take it? I’ve never heard of that before.
I agree, marriage should have meaning for the people who take part. Maybe the meaning of having symmetical photos is ‘I think what things look like is the most important thing.’
I ended up with an uneven number, but I admit it was hard for me to get over. It wasn’t so much about the photos for me, as it was about who didn’t get the escort down the aisle. I didn’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings, but it ended up how it ended up, and in the end it was fine.
The wedding I was in a couple weeks ago, the groom had 7 guys and the bride had me and one other girl. That made the pictures look pretty screwed up lol.
I think that one on the right end of the top row might be a bridesman…
I know! I was wondering if anyone else noticed that…
A manly lady? Cross dresser? …Oh, screw it, it’s a man…
“Mama made me have my cousins and Margie St. Maurice”
Eighteen is also a spiritual number in Judaism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chai_%28symbol%29#Numerological_associations
Maybe the bride wanted a wedding party bigger than she was?
Hahahahahahaha
I was gonna say, some of those bridesmaids are big enough to count as two …
kinda figured they were her kids & grandkids.
Don’t you just hate it when everyone is allowed to choose their own style of dress. Tacky! Tacky! This is an “event” girls. Play the game.
I find matchy-matchy a bit twee.
I don’t see a problem with it at all. It’s better than half of them wearing a dress that looks awful because the style doesn’t suit their figure.
I like it. It brings up the odds for all the single bachelors attending the wedding looking to hook up.
Only one or two of the bridesmaids are attractive enough to do with out consuming a 12-pack…
I wonder how many GUESTS she had
This is exactly why I will have NO bridesmaids except my sister as maid of honor. HUGE group of close friends plus HUGE family = it would be a frickin wedding parade
I’m eloping. Screw it all.
lets see, for every bride attendant. be the person a “maid, or matron”. that should be about 50 guests. hmmmm. about 900 folks were expected to watch the marriage.
I would hate to see the catering bill for that size!
18 prob is the size she wears!
18 is maybe the size she hopes to wear some day. That woman is way bigger than an 18.
If you need bleachers to take your wedding pictures, you’ve gone too far.
Ten bucks says the “bridesmaids” wore flip flops.
Am I the only one who figured out that this is the sorority group shot at one of the sister’s wedding? And if you complain that they all have bouquets, realize that most of those have symbolic flowers. I have seen very similar things happen amongst a “sisterhood” at a wedding, though not to that scale.
Unless standards have drastically changed since I was in college, about seven of those girls would never have made it in a sorority based on their size alone. That and the fact that there’s a pretty wide age range for all of these folks negates your argument. Unless sororities are now pledging 6th graders. Which would’t surprise me either.
I was in a sorority in college and if you have any kind of “standards” as to what looks may join, that’s not a real sorority, IMO. My sisters were all shapes, sizes and skin colors. We even had one active member who was a mother of 3 (and she wasn’t 21 either!). We had more “plus size” sisters than we did skinny ones. What was important was our commitment to academics, to our community and to each other.
If the couple is under 35 years old: the bride’s sisters, the groom’s sisters, the bride’s cousins, the groom’s cousins.
If the couple is over 35 years old: the bride’s daughters, the groom’s daughters, the bride’s nieces, the groom’s nieces, the bride’s granddaughters, the groom’s granddaughters.
You can see they definitely have a family resemblance amongst most of them.
I think it’s rude to call ‘fat’ a family resembelence.
Omg, I think I just saw this very bride, with half her bride’s maids, on Say Yes to the Dress…did anyone else see it last night?
I’m getting tired of seeing normal, happy people being made fun of for no good reason. The bride is happy and the girls are happy, all are well dressed in attractive clothing.
Golf party ?
Black is slimming, but it doesn’t work by osmosis
9 of them are snacks if the bride gets peckish during service.
Maybe she and the groom are both from really big families, and wanted all of their siblings and cousins in the wedding? How many groomsmen were there?
Ten years ago, a friend of mine was part of her father’s wedding party. It was the groom’s 5th wedding and the bride’s 3rd. They had something like 12 kids between them, plus a handfull of grandkids, and they wanted all of the kids in the wedding. The bridal party probably looked something like this.