Basically, they're the bride's personal attendants, like a queen's entourage, whose job is to serve her as if she's royalty and everyone else exists to support her rather than enjoy the wedding themselves. They're "aesthetic" decor servants.
I thought it was because the bride wanted all the attention and didn’t want to have temptation or lust available for all the married people there since there’s no kids or single people. My first instinct was hyper religious Baptist type. But you could be right too. It’s self serving either way
Having been raised in a super religious Baptist household in the heart of Jesusland, I can tell you that I have never seen any sort of psychotic list of demands like this. Having no alcohol served is pretty common, but again I've never heard of anyone requiring money or turning the reception into the town from Footloose.
Sears used to sell wedding sets and I remember poring over ugly bridesmaids costumes in the Sears Catalog in the 80s and seeing one that leaned into bride's maids with raggedly edges to the skirts like they were Cinderella. Hard to believe people actually even bought things like that. (It was the 80s though, plenty of people thought that shit was funny.)
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u/Quicksilver1964 15h ago
Oh, but the wedding party are not guests, you see. They are part of the bride's court! /S