Best man back out

Its terrible to hear the news and the fact his name is on the program printed. I would consider using white strips available to cover his name or gluing white paper over his name overall. If you have a lot to go through, most of them won't even notice he's not up at the alter with you two. Its just an overlook of which the attention is given to you both as you celebrate your love as one.

To be honest I’ve never been to a wedding where I could (or cared to) remember the names of the people in the wedding party anyway 🤷‍♀️ I was there for the bride or groom not for them. I wouldn’t stress over it, you have enough to deal with planning a wedding! ❤️

I'm sorry to hear that! If my MOH or my fiance's BM backs out, I would update our wedding website to let our guests know about the changes to the wedding so there are no surprises during the wedding. No reprinting needed! I think it would save some time, $, and energy trying to change everything. Hipe this helps!

I'm sorry that happened. Is there any way that you guys can talk to him and get this situation fixed? If not, I would not draw too much attention to it. If someone else is now the BM, I would suggest that they maybe say a little something like "I know you were expecting (insert name here), but you get me instead, which I think is WAY better hahahah" It makes a joke of things while still acknowledging that there was change.

New best man can say on thr speech something witty.. about him not being whoever the programs say
No point in re printing stuff

Thats horrible what a terrible thing to do so close to the wedding. i would just leave everything as is it will be too much of a pain to change and reorder everything!

I think if there's time to reorder the programs or do as Samantha suggested and switch to a sign then that is a good option. To me covering them up would draw my attention to the changes that I might not otherwise know about as a guest.


It sucks when people change their mind, but as others have said years from now you won't think about the programs as much as your marriage and how you felt on your wedding day.

Hmmm.. that's a tough one. Was it for a good reason? Did he back out of being best man and is still coming to the wedding? is there bad blood? are you guys jokers?

Personally I'd order a bunch of VOID stickers lol slap them right over his name.. but our wedding is pretty low key, and i'm kind of an ass. hahaha

But for reals.. now that you have the programs printed, is there anyway to load up your design and change the name? Vistaprint, or Zazzle is usually pretty cheap to print.

Depending on the reason for him backing out... I would want it to be known that he left the wedding party... Like, cover it up and replace it with the new best man (assuming that he promoted a GM?) so that people might even ask what's up and you can explain?

At the end of the day though you won't be looking back at pictures of paper you will look back at pictures of you and your DH at your wedding! Sorry to hear he had to back out for whatever reason it was.

I had a similar situation where I had printed things and had to change them, but nothing as important as the best man. My caterer that was supposed to be making my cupcakes never told me that she was closing her shop, and I had printed the menus for each individual person that had her shop's name on it. So since I had to find a new baker I had to scrap the original menu cards. Now I'm just making a chalkboard menu that'll go near the table seating chart so that I don't have to go through that again, just in case.

I know it'll seem like a waste, but if it bothers you to just leave it or cover it up then you can recycle them and then make a board yourself that has your necessary changes and put it at the beginning of the aisle or entrance or wherever works for you. But like the others have said, I don't think people will be scrutinizing your programs and it will most likely go unnoticed if you don't bring attention to it.

That's too bad, sorry that happened to you I agree with Natasha though, maybe you can find a think label or even a really thin marker that's the same colour as your program and cover it up. If you can't I don't think that people will really be counting your wedding party to see who is there and who isn't so worst case scenario, you can leave it for your wedding.

That freaking sucks. I’m sorry your going through that. You can get a really thin blank label sticker and carefully cover his name / replace it. Or honestly maybe just leave it? Your guests might be confused for a moment but overall I don’t think that’s gonna affect your weddings experience largely.