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Experience being a bridesmen?

post #1 of 50
4/9/10 at 7:09pm
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Anyone have any experience being a bridesmen? One of my good female friends just asked me to be in her wedding party and I don't really know anything about weddings. I think I've been to one wedding in the past 10 years as a guest, so I don't have any clue in terms of what happens behind the scenes. Any advice would be helpful, thanks.
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post #2 of 50
4/9/10 at 7:18pm
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Originally Posted by Gradstudent78 View Post
Anyone have any experience being a bridesmen? One of my good female friends just asked me to be in her wedding party and I don't really know anything about weddings. I think I've been to one wedding in the past 10 years as a guest, so I don't have any clue in terms of what happens behind the scenes. Any advice would be helpful, thanks.

Can't help you but I'm looking forward to being the maid of honor at my best friend's next wedding.
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post #3 of 50
4/9/10 at 7:30pm
ive been a bridesman for my brother's wedding. i was the man of honor, or whatever you call it, first groom? someone help me here..

anyways, i dont know about the others, but i had to deliver a speech during reception. well, it was fun and i enjoyed it , doing it in my peculiar funny way (at least i thought it was funny. people were laughing. not sure if it were at me or for my stories but im sure it was for my stories)

other than that, the other guys just went to the dress rehearsal, wore the tuxes, and just had fun. nothing much



edit: best man. that's it
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post #4 of 50
4/9/10 at 7:33pm
i think OP means he will be standing on the womans side, amirite? Or are you standing on the grooms side, but just friends with the bride?


If its the former then you gay. Turn in your man card and get fitted for your dress.

If its the latter, then whats the big deal? Isnt that what a brides brothers would do?
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post #5 of 50
4/9/10 at 7:57pm
According to various documentaries I've seen, you're supposed to proclaim your long-simmering love for the bride at the last second, grab her and run like hell from the ceremony.
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post #6 of 50
4/9/10 at 7:58pm
Decline being a bridesmen...WTF is your friend even asking for?

Tell your female friend, thanks but no thanks. Instead, go to the wedding by yourself, get drunk and try like hell to bang one of the bridesmaids.
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post #7 of 50
4/9/10 at 7:59pm
I'll be in line to do this at some point in the future, my friend has given me permission to sleep with any bridesmaid who isn't related to her or married to someone she likes.
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post #8 of 50
4/9/10 at 8:09pm
I have never in my life heard of a guy being in the bride's wedding party. That's insane, no matter how "alternative" this wedding is, and even if the bride's lesbian sister is officiating it.
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post #9 of 50
4/9/10 at 8:09pm
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post #10 of 50
4/9/10 at 8:12pm
I stood for a female friend. This meant I had to walk down the aisle next to another dude. No biggie. It actually helped because a. I wasn't stuck escorting some fat bridesmaid all night and b. everyone at the reception remembered me and was happy to talk to me.
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post #11 of 50
4/9/10 at 8:13pm
I was a groomsman for my friend's wedding and bedded one of the bridesmaids. She was the cousin of the bride (she was single and so was I). Decent looking girl, not my ideal but I could tell she was diggin me at the rehearsal. Got decently buzzed during the reception and made my move.

Hung out a couple of times afterward but she was a philistine and we weren't really compatible.

Was it one of my better moments? Not really but it seemed like such a good idea at the time.
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post #12 of 50
4/9/10 at 8:18pm
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Decline being a bridesmen...WTF is your friend even asking for?

Tell your female friend, thanks but no thanks. Instead, go to the wedding by yourself, get drunk and try like hell to bang one of the bridesmaids.

I'm not sure why this is such a big deal, we've been close friends since 1996 and it's not like she has any female friends that she'd rather ask or feels closer to then the ones she already has in the wedding party.
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post #13 of 50
4/9/10 at 8:21pm
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I'm not sure why this is such a big deal, we've been close friends since 1996 and it's not like she has any female friends that she'd rather ask or feels closer to then the ones she already has in the wedding party.

Because weddings are, in large part, based on notions of tradition. I don't know of any culture with any siginificant presence where a guy is a bridesmaid. Sounds gay to me.
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post #14 of 50
4/9/10 at 8:35pm
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Because weddings are, in large part, based on notions of tradition. I don't know of any culture with any siginificant presence where a guy is a bridesmaid. Sounds gay to me.

My sentiments exactly. The thought of a guy being a bridesmen is inane, goes against tradition and let's face it, will make you look like her gay friend.

For the sake of conversation, let's say the bridesmen really was the gay friend. Would that guy like being acknowledged throughout the wedding and the reception as the bridesmaid and have people question their sexuality?
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post #15 of 50
4/9/10 at 8:47pm
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I'm not sure why this is such a big deal, we've been close friends since 1996 and it's not like she has any female friends that she'd rather ask or feels closer to then the ones she already has in the wedding party.

If it doesn't matter to you it should not matter to anyone else. And if it does, fuck em.
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