Your confidante and best friend of many years has announced to you that she is marrying the love of her life and asked you to play the role of the maid of honor at the wedding and after the initial joy of the wedding faded, you suddenly found yourself getting anxious and worried about how you can play the role of a maid of honor but fear not because the tips we have in store for you will help you be the best maid of honor ever.
The role of a maid of honor at a wedding is to help the bride avoid nervous breakdowns, help get wedding chores and errands completed and throw an amazing bridal shower and a bachelorette party. It is not a hard task to be a maid of honor and if you’re even a little bit worried, the information that we have given below will help ease your nerves.
Divide chores
Even though the maid of honor is not usually someone who is pictured in all the photographs with the bridal party and the couple, they are the sources that are at work behind the scenes and the maid of honor is expected to run a lot of wedding errands and chores for the bride. However, the bridal party is also selected to help the bride and the maid of honor decide everything from wedding and ceremony reception venues to the color of the theme for the wedding so as the maid of honor, you should gather the bridal party and the bride at one place and discuss about the wedding planning process. The chores and errands should be divided equally among each and everyone involved in the wedding.
Throw a bachelorette party or bridal shower
Regardless of whether or not the bride is hosting her wedding at one of the budget wedding venues, you should not hesitate to go all out with planning these two events or one of them. Most of the times the two terms mentioned above get mixed up for each other. A bachelorette party is a party or a night out that the maid of honor organizes for the bride and all of her girlfriends to enjoy but a bridal shower is an intimate gathering with all the special women in the brides life to come together and gift her certain items that will help her in this next chapter of her life.
Organizing an amazing and well planned bridal shower or bachelorette party will definitely help you to be the best maid of honor ever and gain some brownie points with your best friend from childhood.