Maid of Honor Duties
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Of all the maid of honor's duties the most important is to offer moral support to the bride. That and lend a sympathetic ear, a helping hand and a shoulder to lean on. The maid of honor has many responsibilities to ensure the wedding planning and the wedding day is worry-free for the bride. She is to relieve the bride of the more stressful burdens, so the bride may enjoy her wedding to its fullest.
Wedding Planning Duties:
- Help the bride shop for her wedding dress
- Visit reception sites with the bride as a "second pair of eyes"
- Help the bride choose the wedding flowers and reception decorations
- Shop for the bridesmaid dresses
- Ensure the bridesmaid dresses are ordered well before the wedding
- Address wedding invitations
- Help make wedding guest favors
- Purchase, address and send out bridal shower invitations
- Host a bridal shower
- Keep track of the gifts during the bridal shower (who gave what)
- Host a bachelorette party
- Attend the rehearsal and rehearsal dinner
- Help out during the rehearsal dinner
- Buy the couple a wedding gift
Wedding Day Duties:
- Decorate the reception site (and clean up at the end of the night)
- Help the bride get dressed
- Either pick up or receive (if delivered) the wedding flowers from the florist
- Distribute the bouquets, boutonnieres and corsages to the wedding party and the couple's parents and grandparents
- Ensures all the bridesmaids are ready (hair and makeup) and arrive at the ceremony on time
- Adjust the bride's veil and train before she walks down the aisle
- Hold the bride's bouquet during the wedding ceremony
- Hold the groom's ring until the exchange of rings
- Witnesses the signing of the marriage license
- Participate in the wedding photos
- Bustles the bride's wedding dress for the reception
- Help the bride in the washroom
- Give bride's gift to groom if bride wishes
- Stand in the receiving line
- Give a maid of honor speech and toast
- Dance the first dance with the best man
- And anything the bride wishes, within reason
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