How Did You Decide What Order Your Wedding Party Will Walk Down The Aisle?

View Quoted Comment Awesome!! It's funny how things just work out sometimes.

View Quoted Comment That's awesome that you have multiple couples in your wedding party! And very cool how you and your fiance met! I like your idea of putting everyone in order by age. I think grouping by something like age or height or number of years they've been friends is an easy and fair way to organize everyone.

For the most part, we based it on who we have the closest relationship with. The only people it wasn't like that for would have been on my side. My brother and his wife were both on my side and while I am closer to my brother his wife actually stood closer to me. The reason being was that my husband's female best friend was also in the wedding and she was in the third position on his side so I wanted my brother paired for her. Below is the order we had them standing by us, but they walked down the aisle the opposite way so the best man and maid of honor walked down last.

Closest to the Bride

- Maid of Honor (my sister)

- Bridesmaid #1 (my brother's wife)

- Bride's Man (my brother)

- Bridesmaid #2 (my husband's sister)

- Bridesmaid #3 (my friend)

Closest to the Groom

- Best Man (my husband's male best friend)

- Groomsman #1 (husband's younger brother) (husband said if he could do it again his brother would've been best man and his male best friend would have been groomsman #1)

- Groomswoman (husband's female best friend)

- Groomsman #2 (husband's friend)

- Groomsman #3 (husband's friend)

I only have a total of 3 so it was fairly easy.
1-my sister (MOH) & whoever is his best man
2-my daughter & my stepson 3-my best friend & whoever he’ll choose for a C groomsman. My fiancé has yet to decide on best man & 1 groomsman. Driving me crazy as he needs to ask & send the guy’s measurements to the tailor which has a 4-5 week turnaround.

View Quoted Comment That makes sense as to why you had your brother's wife stand closer to you than your brother! Glad to hear everything worked out well, thanks for sharing!

Every couple I've talked to said they were lined up randomly. No emphasis on height, ages, length of time known, etc

View Quoted Comment A smaller wedding party does make things a lot easier! And oh wow, if your wedding is in April, I hope he chooses them soon! At least he still some time, not panic mode yet. But definitely time to start thinking about it.

I based it off closeness to me. My MOH is last and might be walking with my younger son who will be holding a sign (so she can help him lol), and the ones who are the least closest to me will be walking in first. Our Best Man is walking in with my FH, one of our groomsmen is escorting my FMIL, the rest will be paired with my bridesmaids and walking in. We have a couple in our bridal party so of course they're walking in together as well.

This was one of my favorite parts of planning because our bridal party are all funny people and pairing them together is going to make for such a fun experience at the wedding lol.

View Quoted Comment In the weddings that I've been in, some have been based on how close everyone was to the couple, and others have been random (numbers drawn or couple chooses randomly). It's so interesting how everyone does things differently!

View Quoted Comment Yes! My girls were super grateful to not have to stand in their heels, and we got some great shots of them watching us exchange vows!

View Quoted Comment That makes sense. Sounds like you've got a great wedding party! Very cool that your son will hold a sign while walking down the aisle! What is the sign going to say?

View Quoted Comment Aww, very cool! Sounds like some special photos!

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His sign will say "Daddy, here comes Mommy!"

View Quoted Comment Aww, that is very cute!!

I did length of time known. Besides MOH and BM bc they are right beside me. That way nobody feels any type of way either.

View Quoted Comment I think that's a fun idea! My fiance and I haven't figured out a specific order yet, but we don't want to feel like we're "ranking" our friendships, so we're thinking of either having everyone draw numbers to determine order, or basing it on something like length of time we've known them.

View Quoted Comment Length of time known is easiest but that’s just my opinion. It’s really not that big of a deal regardless. It shouldn’t mean anything.

View Quoted Comment I agree - to me, the order isn't important, I am just happy to have my closest friends stand at the altar with my fiance and me on our wedding day! Length of time is probably what we'll end up doing. Thank you for your input!

We will likely pair ours up based on their relationship with each other. Our respective parties include two sets of couples, with me likely having FSIL as my MOH and her husband will be my fiancé's best man as we are all quite close. The other couple will be matched, and then there will likely be 2 more pairings which we'll make based on how well the bridemaid/groomsman from each pairing is likely to get along. They will only have to walk together for the recessional and the reception introductions, but they'll be together in pictures so I want them to not hate each other! It's not something I'm particularly worried about, but we know personalities well enough and some are more laid-back than others. In any case, we will give the bridal party members their own seating assignments for the reception with whatever groups they fit in best with, so they won't be paired up for an overlong long period of time.

View Quoted Comment That makes sense! I was also considering pairing people based on personality and people they each would be most likely to get along with (though they're almost all pretty easy going and likely to get along with everyone). I've been torn on the order that they'll walk down the aisle in and the order they'll be standing in pictures. How are you deciding what order the pairs will walk down the aisle?