bride's maid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bride's maids
Senses: examples: text: Dad’s cousin Vernon Carter and his wife, Lucy, served as best man and bride’s maid, respectively.
ref: 2002 June 5, Ron Roberson, Middletown Pacemakers: The Story of an Ohio Hot Rod Club, Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN:
text: They compromised on a small ceremony (just relatives which turned out to be 55 people) with me as maid of honor and her friend, Lori, a bride’s maid and a large reception (about 150).
ref: 2004 March, Hannah R. Goodman, My Sister's Wedding, page 5:
text: Stan’s wife, Merle, loaned me her wedding dress for my “something borrowed.” Viola served as bride’s maid and my only attendant.
ref: 2005 January 28, Myrtle Blabey Neufeld, Directed Paths, 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 40:
text: Okay, I finally made my decision: Derry and Penney would be my bride’s maids and Sophie, my maid of honor. / Everything seemed to be falling into place until controversy started about what kind of attire the bride’s maids would wear. […] Between the stress of her input and the guilt of not having my sisters in the wedding, I concluded that I did not want to have bride’s maids at all.
ref: 2007 April, Alice Monterio, Saved by Grace, Xulon Press, →ISBN, page 150:
text: She was angry that I did not ask her to be my maid of honor. / But I gave her a chance to be a bride’s maid in a red color.
ref: 2008 November 20, Dave Parker, Big Is Beautiful, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 66:
text: My youngest sister, Wendy, was my maid of honor and Shan and Jess (Tess’s sisters) were my bride’s maids. […] My niece, Janielle, functioned as maid-of-honor, and my Barbadian god daughter, Leah, my lone bride’s maid.
ref: 2010 October 30, Georgette G. Lee, Layers of Living: A Heartwarming Memoir of Struggle, Growth, and Triumph, Xlibris, →ISBN, pages 50, 84:
text: The youngest had chosen burgundy and ivory as her color scheme for her wedding and we were able to locate the maid of honor and bride’s maid dresses on line and get them ordered.
ref: 2010 December 23, Cheryl Kennedy, The Year Off, Dorrance Publishing, →ISBN, page 8:
text: I shopped around for a shoe store that would dye my maid of honor and bride’s maid shoes to match their gowns.
ref: 2011 September, Bernice S. Dyson, Move on: Live Laugh Love Again, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 141:
text: “I would love to! I am so happy you chose me! It’s exciting! I have never been a bride’s maid. When is the wedding?”
ref: 2011 December 15, Chapters of Our Lives, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 116:
text: Carmen was maid of honor and Laura was a bride’s maid. Eric was best man and Larry was groomsman.
ref: 2012 January 13, Carolyn Robinson Sommers, Betrayed by Destiny, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 357:
text: They would walk together, hand in hand, to the old wooden church so they could be the bride’s maid and the best man for Mary and William.
ref: 2012 August 28, Ronald Lee Christopher, Coming of the Storm Clouds, Xlibris, →ISBN:
text: Meg is going to put hers under her pillow tonight and dream of her future husband. I did the same when I was a bride’s maid.
ref: 2012 August 30, Pamela Hartshorne, Time's Echo, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN, page 155:
text: Lori stood next to me as my bride’s maid. Adam’s old friend Peter, […] , was the best man.
ref: 2012 September 7, Savitri L. Bess, The Sophia Secrets, Balboa Press, →ISBN, page 271:
text: I have already told you I don’t want a bride’s maid. I just want a simple wedding and I know mum and Tess will want to take over our wedding.
ref: 2013 February 7, Ree Collins, Lies Deceit and an Innocent Man, iUniverse, page 269:
text: For instance, when I was nineteen years of age I got engaged to a lovely fella who later married my supposed bride’s maid or maid of honour—I was emotionally shattered but not destroyed.
ref: 2014 May, Anita Duckworth-Bradshaw, The Road to Discovery: Ultimate Personal Development, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 51:
text: Within the United States there are more than 11,000 establishments that sell bridal gowns, bride’s maid dresses, and related products.
ref: 2014, Bridal Gown Shop Business Plan:
text: At exactly 2:00 the organist started playing Wagner's Wedding March and Clara took Ernie's arm and slowly walked down the aisle, followed at regular intervals by the ushers and bride's maids.
ref: 2016 March 18, Glenn G. Tucker, The Education of Frank: A Story of WWII, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of bridesmaid.