First bridal party meeting for wedding taking place 2-13-2010?

"Meeting?" You don't really have meetings. Just make your plans and let them know what is going on if you wish. They're friends who you talk to often anyway, so just share when you talk to them.

Hate to say it like this, but nobody has time for "meetings" about someone's wedding. Life is too busy.

As mentioned, you don't need to call a meeting.

The only things your bridesmaids really need to discuss in a group are your bridal shower and your bachelorette, and you cannot and should not have a finger in those pies. The only reason for you to get involved in either is if there are health or safety concerns - say, if you have a relative in a wheelchair and you need to make sure the bridesmaids rent a facility that is accessible. Otherwise you don't even have the right to demand one, let alone get involved in the planning.

Everything else can be discussed one-on-one, and there really isn't much to discuss: they get the dress, the shoes, the makeup, and the hair shortly before the wedding, and they rehearse the ceremony itself at the rehearsal.

If I were a bridesmaid and the bride started calling meetings a year in advance, I'd be suspicious that the bride saw me as free unpaid slave labour. Specifically, I'd be concerned that she wanted me to do all her planning work. That might even make me decline the honour of participating further in the wedding, or perhaps the bride's life.

Wedding Meeting Agenda

Most of the answers are wrong. You do have to meet. 2 meetings are typical and 3 is a bit much and 4 your a bridezilla. Your 1st meeting is a wedding party mixer with the entire wedding party including significant others of those included in your wedding party and your parents. Its so the party can kind of meet each other under different circumstances and mingle in a very casual way. This meeting is where they also meet your planner and she gives them all her information so they wont call and bother you they'll bother her. your second meeting is also casual and its closer to the date and usually after a quick lunch or what ever the guys and girls leave seperatly to go to the shops and get fitted and those who can't make it are given an info sheet with attire details and what shop to go to and get the items and timelines for the big day are given to everyone at this meeting, which is also given to the attendees who arent there but participating .

well you don't have to have a formal meeting with an agenda, it's a wedding not an act of congress. when the bridesmaids dresses come in, why don't you all meet at the bridal shop for the fitting and after you can have a nice lunch out somewhere. those girls will plan your shower and bachelorette without you, you don't have to have anything to do with that. you can't really come out and ask for someone to throw you a shower and tell them what to do. just make sure they all clear their schedule for the rehearsal the night before the wedding, and tell them what time the hair appointment is gonna be on the morning of the wedding.

Bridal party meetings? Phone calls AND emails BETWEEN meetings - arg! What next? A summit at the UN for your wedding? Really all those girls have to do is show up and look good. Not much to meet about.

Is this a business venture or a wedding? A "meeting" sounds very formal, structured, and quite frankly controlling. My first thought was a bride passing out handouts and having a PowerPoint presentation.

You should be talking with your bridesmaids often, more so when the wedding gets closer. If you need them to order dresses by a certain date, then be clear. If you need help with something, ask. You don't need to have a minute by minute schedule, but let them know what to expect and when.

Good luck.

A meeting for what? I've never heard of this and I've been a bridesmaid 11 times. Once they order their dress there isn't anything else for you to go over with them. They will stay organized via phone and e-mail for shower planning. If you need to give them a message just send an e-mail to everyone. Making them all take time out of their week to meet with you seems unnecessary.

I assume you are the bride? Every member of the wedding party should be given a detailed list of everything that person is expected to do or to buy. By DETAILED I mean it is not enough to say "Host a bachelorette; help with planning and decorating for the reception." Details means doing your research and finding out what each person will need to do, need to spend, to make that bachelorette party happen. Make a few calls and chip in $20 each for some booze, pretzels, and a Chippendale video? Send written invitations to 20 for an evening at Stallion's Ladies' Club in the Champagne Room with each bridemaid's share of the expense being $220? Just what kind of help with planning? Free the two Sundays before the wedding to help with your seating chart and centerpeice assembly? Free every Saturday for 6 weeks prior to the wedding to spend the entire day assisting you with whatever? Be available for hours and hours of phone time for the next 7 months, as you will want to discuss your plans a lot? Make sure that your list also includes any travel expenses, special grooming expenses (hair, nails, makeup), any gift giving and gift exhanges you are planning -- in short, I do want to see any your BMs on here telling everyone "if I had known that the bride expected THIS, I never would have agreed to be a bridesmaid!" No surprises. If you can't manage to think of it ahead of time and warn your bridesmaids, then you can't change the terms of the agreement. In this way you will avoid a lot of wedding drama.

I urge you to complete this list of responsibilities and send it to each person without delay. THEN you try to schedule a meeting. Good luck with being able find a day with everyone is free. You might look into teleconferencing unless everyone lives very near.

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No need for a meeting , and if you do want to have a get together, wait until their dresses come in, and go with them to their fittings, You'll find it very hard to get everyone together at the same time.