Photographer fell down while taking a wedding picture, here's the picture he ended up taking.

I don't have anything against the idea of bridesmaids, but there is absolutely such a thing as 'too many.'

The definition of 'too many' is relative, obviously -- if you have a huge budget and are going to have a vast wedding in a big venue with lots of guests, AND if you're all set up to comfortably start your lives together after the wedding and the wedding budget isn't going to beggar you AND if you really want all of your friends and/or family to be a PART of the ceremony instead of just attending AND/OR if you're superstitious and/or think that 7 is a nice number, THEN 7 bridesmaids makes total and perfect sense. Congrats and have at it! Hope it's a wonderful day.

And I say this as a person who decided not to have ANY bridesmaids, and still thinks it was absolutely the right decision for us. We wanted a small-ish wedding and wanted it to be a lovely but understated ceremony, and mostly a big fun party where no one was told what to wear or what to do. The overriding desire here was to avoid any and all opportunities for any wedding party-related drama to crop up. I didn't want to pay for dresses and makeup and hair, and didn't want people to have to pay for dresses and makeup and hair if they didn't want to, and didn't want them wondering who was paying if they had to get dresses and makeup and hair. The husband didn't care about the wedding party, and would probably have been happy if we'd done a courthouse wedding, so he was on board with the no-frills aspect of doing away with the wedding party altogether. No telling people to show up at a certain time for rehearsal dinner, no need to pay for a huge rehearsal dinner, no need to stress about whether they're going to show up on time for the ceremony. It was designed to be a minimal-stress day and it was perfect.

But, again, I can totally see why others who have a higher stress-tolerance than I do might consider all those things to be par the course, and an acceptable payment for the camaraderie and enjoyment gained from having a wedding be a group activity.

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