Bridesmaid dilemma

Yes you can have them host your wedding shower or be the mc or dj or get them to do speeches!

We just had our second best man back out yesterday and it was suggested to us to just have a "wedding party". No defined names "best man", "maid of honour" etc. Just a wedding party. We currently have 5 girls and 1 guy standing for us. Unfortunately they are all my family because my FH's family members don't seem to want to make the effort to participate. Rather than keep trying to fill those positions, we are just going to go with the flow.

Your friends could be ushers to welcome guests to the wedding and seat the elderly if needed and give out programs/fans as they enter. Being MC is they feel comfortable at the reception to put together the evening entertainment/announcements.

Another way to include them is signing the marriage license as witnesses.

You could involve them in different ways!

As mentioned, you can have them be readers, MCs, greet guests at the reception at the welcome/guest book table, have them get ready with you, etc.

You could have them be/do:

Ushers (not just for boys!)

Reading at the ceremony

At the welcome table/ guest book

Say grace

Be the MC's

Or you could always have them as "honourary bridesmaids" that you can get ready with and everything but then have them sit down instead of stand at the altar? Is the only reason for not having them in the wedding party so that it doesn't look so unbalanced? (Because 4 BM's is not too many - I have 5 on my side and he has 5 on his too!)

Hey Jamie! My FH and I are doing the same thing - we have his brother as our best man, and my sister as MOH. We’re incorporating other family in different ways:

My FH’s sister is doing our meal blessing. We have cousins doing two readings for us at our ceremony. Another cousin is reading / introducing a polish tradition at our reception.

youll also need people for the receiving line if you’re having one. Someone to stay near the guest book, or money box.

You'll need an MC. Does one or both of them feel comfortable talking in front of people? Maybe one of them doing a reading of a special poem?