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September 26, 2005

How to be a Bridesmaid

Now, I know I'm not the only person in the world who has never been a bride, or a bridesmaid. I've never really had much to do with weddings at all. In fact, when my bestest mate "Engineering Girl" asked me to be a part of hers, I immediatly googled all the necessary etiquette required of a Bridesmaid.

  • Help Bride and Bride's family get ready for wedding

  • Ensure Bride looks fantastic at any given moment

  • Get all Frocked up.

  • Pose for 4,000,000 photos

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    That all sounded fine to me, so I started to become a little over enthusiastic about my role. I added my own special criteria for what makes a top notch Bridesmaid:

  • Hug everybody at least 12 times (failing that, shake hands and/or pat on back)

  • Get quite drunk

  • Get teary when everybody else does a speach

  • Stand up and make godawful speach with cryptic geeky references that will fly over Uncles/Aunts/Cousin's heads collectivly.

    • All of these were achieved with suitable flair and style, except the drunken hugging and speaching speaking. I'm never good at 'speaking' (honest!) so I took a note from the bride's grand father who said:

    "Stand up. Speak up. Shut Up."

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    To my best friend and her new husband; May the best of your past, Be the worst of your future.

    Posted by Jacqui at September 26, 2005 03:04 AM

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