Deciding on keeping or dropping bridesmaids

I am currently engaged. Now that I am engaged, wedding planning has been in my daily thoughts. Amongst these thoughts I have been trying to get things under way. The wedding is July 7th, 2023. With that being said that leads to what I need advice on. Before even deciding on a date, I shared my engagement with some friends and family. Well in my sharing, I asked a few people if they would do the honor of being my bridesmaid. One of my friends seemed so willing to help with things, so I promoted her in being my maid of honor. Anyhow, everyone I selected was game for being a bridesmaid and maid of honor and what not. And so, I began looking for people that could our makeup. I had reached out and asked everyone who would be interested in getting makeup services. Everyone yet again was game for it. So I initially found someone and I created a group message telling them about the pricing of it and gave them my cashapp info so they can send me the payments. I did all the way back in October/November. I set the deadline for the payments to be due January 1st because I knew holidays would have a major financial grab. I even told them that if say problem would arise to let me know in advance. To speed this up, I send out a reminder text to reminder about the payment and to still let me know if any problems would arise. I did not hear anything from anyone, so I assumed all was gonna go as planned. Well January came and went. I didn't hear anything. So I moved thr date yet again. I pushed it to the following week. I let them know that it was now 2022 businesses book quickly and I do not want to keep putting it off and be out of a makeup artist for the wedding. I finally heard back from one of my bridesmaids. She made her payment and apologized for the delay but I still hadn't heard anything from anyone else. And so finally the week of the following week after the 1st, I told them that final deadline was gonna be Jan 21st. If payments were not made by then, I will not allow any of them to be in the bridal party. They could still come to wedding but they will not be walking the aisle. So all payments should be made. It is now January 23rd and I end hearing back from my maid of honor and one of my bridesmaids. They both told me some things that came off as excuses. I can only empathize to a degree. Because for the simple fact, these situations happened well after I made the initial text about makeup. So to me at this point it was an excuse. My dilemma is since I still have received any payments after I strictly set a final deadline, do I demote everyone and look for another set of bridesmaids or do I just walk down the aisle by myself. I really want to express my feelings behind because I feel like if this were the case I would have just waited to pick out bridesmaids and maid of honor. I just want to know what I should before making final decisions. Please help.