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Not being a bridesmaid for a bridesmaid

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Auey · 06/08/2019 18:29

I wasn’t sure where to post this but I’m after some advice.

I’m getting married next year and step sister is getting married the year after.
Im having a small wedding so decided in my head that I would have my two best friends and my two step sisters as bridesmaids, hadn’t announced anything yet.

Now my step sister has announced her bridesmaids for her wedding and I’m not one, her blood sister is but not me (she has 3 bridesmaids in total) . We are all pretty close so having them seemed obvious to me but I don’t have blood siblings of my own so I know it’s different.

It’s not the sort of thing I particularly am bothered about and am not the sort of person to be hurt or offended by not being a bridesmaid at anyone’s wedding.

However I do now feel awkward about asking my step sisters to be mine now.

  1. as I feel it may make her awkward as she probably hadn’t even thought of it. I will admit I am closer to my other step sister but we are all close and obviously in my position I couldn’t have one without the other as that would look mean.

  2. I am worried about how it would be perceived by family with me having her as a bridesmaid next year but me not being hers 7 months after.

What would you do in that situation? Would you still ask them both to be bridesmaid or not ask either of them? As I wouldn’t have one and not the other.

I think I probably am over thinking this and maybe she won’t care... it just feels like it will be abit awkward for us both if I ask them but maybe it would be fine.

Would you still want to be invited to be bridesmaid by someone who wasn’t yours at a similar sized wedding?

OP posts:
SandAndSea · 07/08/2019 23:26

Traditionally, bridesmaids are unmarried. This might explain it?

Ohyesiam · 07/08/2019 23:31

I don’t get why it’s about reciprocity, ask her in a spirit of generosity, not because of what she will / won’t, has / hasn’t done.

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