When a woman first becomes engaged, one of the first things she does is spread the happy news among her family and friends, which often includes inviting her best friends to be in her wedding party. It sometimes happens that down the road, the bride finds herself in the sticky position of regretting having asked one of those women to be her bridesmaid. This leads to a difficult question: is it ever okay to fire a bridesmaid?
In general, the answer is no. Take your time evaluating your choices, because un inviting someone for the role of bridesmaid is a terrible insult. It is definitely one of the biggest social cuts anyone can make, and it should only be done in extreme cases. In other words, if the bridesmaid had an affair with your fiance, giver her the boot! Anything less, you are pretty much stuck with her.
If you ask yourself why you want to fire a bridesmaid, you may well realize that you are overreacting about something. After all, you thought highly enough of her to invite her to play a role in one of the most important days of your life; what has changed so much since then? Many brides get annoyed with bridesmaids who do not seem to be sufficiently excited about their weddings or helpful enough with the planning, but that is far from just cause to dismiss her from the wedding party.
Bridesmaids who do not display a ton of enthusiasm about your wedding are often just busy with their own lives, something which all too many brides forget. Not every bridesmaid is going to be willing or able to drop everything to focus on someone else s wedding; showing up on the big day ready to go may be all that some attendants can realistically do. As disappointing as that may be, if someone is truly your dear friend, you may have to accept that and aim to simply be grateful to have her by your side on your wedding day.
There are far too many cases when a bride gets carried away by her own excitement and starts inviting friends to be bridesmaids left and right. Before you know it, you have ended up with a bridal party that is ridiculously large. You may even start to worry about the expense of buying bridesmaid gifts and rehearsal dinners for a huge gaggle of girls. So what can you do? Look for ways to cut costs without cutting bridesmaids. Find pretty but affordable bridesmaid gifts online, hold your rehearsal dinner in a casual venue, that sort of thing. Whatever you do, don t try to uninvite someone, unless you are willing to lose her as a friend forever.
In very limited circumstances, firing a bridesmaid might be necessary. As was mentioned before, if she had an affair with your fiance, by all means drop her (and maybe him!). Bridesmaids who say a lot of nasty things about the groom and make it clear that they disapprove of the marriage also have no place in your wedding party. Since you don t need those sort of people as friends, it won t matter if you lose them over firing them. Other than that, you are obligated to include in your wedding party anyone you have invited, so the best advice is to choose wisely.
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