A bride is worried she’ll have to make a tough choice due to her childhood best friend assuming she will be the maid of honor.
She came online for advice
The bride went to the Reddit community ‘Wedding’ to look for advice about her situation.
She asked if she would be ‘awful’ for not naming her childhood best friend the maid of honor, especially because the woman already expects the title.
The woman explained the situation
The bride-to-be wrote, “My childhood friend has already made comments about being my MOH [maid of honor] and I don’t know how to break it to her that I’d rather have someone else.”
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She said that she stood as maid of honor for her friend seven years ago, but doesn’t want to return the role because their ‘relationship isn’t as close’.
Her friend also hasn’t been interested in details
The concerned bride also said that her friend has shown little interest in getting to know the groom-to-be, whom she’s been with for 8 years.
“I was her MOH 7 years ago when she married, but our relationship isn’t as close and she does not interact with my fiancé nor know the extent of our relationship as she doesn’t want details,” she wrote.
She wants someone else as maid of honor
The bride wants to name one of her ‘super meaningful’ friends maid of honor instead, who she got to know during her brief split with her fiancé.
“My fiancé and I have been together eight years, broke up briefly in year five and reconciled. Everything is so much better since,” she shared.
The bride made more ‘meaningful’ friendships
“During that time, we lived out of state and I made [sic] some of the best people and have stayed closed [sic] friends since,” she went on.
“Now that it is time to pick the wedding party, I am struggling on who to place where!”
Redditors advised her to avoid roles
Putting in their two cents, Reddit users under the bride’s post advised her to have a bridal party without specific roles.
The top comment reads, “You could always not have a maid of honor.”
This could help her avoid ‘drama’
“My best friend couldn’t chose between me or her sister to be MOH [maid of honor] as she didn’t want either of us to feel left out so we were both just bridesmaids and therefore at the same ‘level,’” the user added.
