Weddingbee Blog

I love your bridesmaid dress from Jamie’s wedding.

I live in Chicago, my bridesmaids live in London. I WISH they were only in New York or DC.

I’m lucky enough to have most of my BMs in the same state, though not the same city. However, I chose a friend from D.C. (I’m in TX) to by my MOH. She’s being super cool about flying down for the bachelorette, and since wedding is in NY, it’s actually easier for her to meet me there when I taek my two planning trips. Other than that, the internet and things like digital photography go a long way toward getting opinions on dresses and such.

I feel you on the long-distance bridal party! I’m lucky to have two living near me (only an hour away by train), but the other two live far afield — and all of my other friends are scattered from Massachussetts to Seattle! This may mean that my bachelorette party is very small or doesn’t happen at all, which is a bit of a bummer, but I hate to ask people to travel to my wedding *and* to another party.

Luckily, with the existing state of computer technology - plus conference calls, emails, text messaging - it’s really easy to keep in touch realtime. I was my sister’s MOH, and her BMs were strung out from Ohio to Utah; she was my MOH, and she lives 1000 miles away. My other best girlfriends are about the same distance. We emailed and texted photos of dresses back and forth, did conference call shopping (with the only gal who lived near a Nordstrom trying on the dresses with all of us on the speaker phone), and overnighted DIY projects. If your girls are really invested in being part of your planning and preparation, the distance is not that much of an obstacle.

And as far as bachelorette parties and such, I was astonished at how many other friends stepped up! They all knew that my girls were too far away, and wanted to make sure that I didn’t miss out. For my sister we all flew to Las Vegas for the weekend for her bachelorette, but I got three different parties, in three different cities, and ended up realizing that I have way more good and generous friends than I had thought.

Your sister does look like B. Spears — rocking the “Mary Kate and Ashley ‘pout’” —

Funny factoid, did you know that when they make that face, they secretly are thinking/saying “prune.” lol

I’m blessed to have my girls close to home, with the exception of one - who is blessedly flying back!

Yeah, she totally does look like Britney!

I also feel your pain. Three of my bridesmaids are all from out of town One in the bay area, one from the bay area but moving back down to LA and the last one is in DC. My sister is my MOH but she’s super busy with optometry school.