There is no requirement for any members of the classic wedding party to be present at the wedding. The honor positions of maid of honor, bridesmaids and top man, groomsmen are customary, and not in any way to be deemed as necessary. If you chose to have these men and women in your wedding party, it is a general rule that there be symmetry of the two groups.
The bride chooses the bridesmaids, sometimes with assist from household, and the groom chooses the groomsmen when the bride frequently retains veto power over his selections! In the organizing phase of the wedding ceremony and reception, the bride will also pick her gown and complementary gowns for the bridesmaids. The bride, with some limited input from the groom, can also select the matching attire for the groomsmen as nicely as the groom's attire. The important exception to this rule is military weddings.
Usually the selection of the wedding party participants is made use of as an chance for matchmaking by those involved. This is not necessarily a great idea, while some of those matches have been identified to be even more successful than the marriages at which they met!
One other optional role in the wedding party, which has grow to be somewhat much more trendy lately, is the flower girl. The flower girl is pretty much consistently a particularly young, age five-9, girl relative of the bride or groom, who parades down the aisle, prior to the bride, throwing flower petals on the carpet. The flower girl want not be pretty great at her flower petal dropping job, her real job is to be cute.
The Ring Bearer is now rather typically a young male relative of the groom or bride, rather than the extra standard finest man. The young fellow walks down the aisle soon after the flower girl carrying a fairly significant decorated pillow with the wedding rings on it. For safety's sake, most typically the rings are stitched to the pillow with a single stitch, to stop them from rolling off and receiving lost.
