Is It Okay to Have An Uneven Wedding Bridal Party?

 The short answer is yes absolutely! 

 Keep reading below to find out ways to help keep it looking natural, a few little tricks that will help you significantly, and a little confidence booster for you at the end. 

I get asked all the time “Is it okay to have an uneven bridal party” and I tell every bride the same exact thing, it is absolutely okay to have an uneven bridal party it doesn’t say anywhere in any books or any educational videos that it has to be a certain way!

There are traditions that often follow having an even amount of people on the groom’s side as the bride’s side. But that’s just an old tradition that has definitely been overruled by the younger generation. If someone gives you a hard time about it just say…..

Here are a few different ways that you can help your bridal party to stay looking natural without it looking too uneven. 

1.) Have your bridal party walk separately. Only have one person coming down the aisle at a time instead of them walking in pairs. Guys go first girls second.  

2.) Another way you can have your bridal party walking in is if you have one extra girl the last guy that’s walking in will just walk with two girls instead of one. Vice versa for guys and girls.  

3.) If you are left with only one extra guy or a girl, you can have your best man or maid of honor walk first by themselves. It does not look weird it just shows that they are an important person. Which is true anyways. If there are just one too many guys, I would highly recommend just having the best man already standing up there with the groom at the start of the ceremony. Or he can make his entrance directly behind the grooms.  

I guarantee you they will be up there like…

4.) When you’re taking the formal bridal party photos while it is nice to have photos with the girls on one side and guys on the other it’s not necessary to have them all split up so you can have your wedding party all be mixed up with each other so it’s just one big group of people instead of noticing the difference in size on either side.  

5.) (If you’re considering a head table) When everyone is seated at the head table consider having everybody bring their spouses to the head table with them instead of just having the bridal party. This will make it look more natural and no one will be able to tell it’s an uneven amount of bridal party. Or in a better case just go with the sweetheart table instead of a head table and have all of your bridal party sitting either with their families or wherever they would like. 

No one is going to come up to you after your wedding and say “why didn’t you have as many girls as the guys?”

Honestly, nobody is going to say anything, the only one that might notice something would probably be your grandparents and even then, they would never say anything because they know it’s just an old tradition. There is no reason you can’t have all of your girls there with you because you are worried about it looking “uneven”. 

Consider talking it over with your family if you’re not 100% confident with it just talk to everybody about it, I promise you once you talk to everyone you are going to feel 100% better. Everyone loves you and your future husband! If you’re having doubts about it maybe you just need to talk to the people you are closest with whose opinions matter to you more than anything! 

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