What do you do when more than half of your bridesmaids drop out of your wedding? Bride-to-be Mollie Knight didn’t let it ruin anything, she just turned to social media to replace them. In a post to a Facebook group for brides called The Wedding Connection, she asked, “Anyone wanna be a bridesmaid in a stranger’s wedding (my wedding) in 67 days?”
It might sound like a crazy move, but when several of Knight’s bridesmaids couldn’t make it because of financial reasons or family emergencies, it was just the fix she needed. More than 600 strangers offered to fill in as a bridesmaid. The bride-to-be, who lives in Jacksonville, Florida, says she was hoping people would sympathize, but she never expected so many women to selflessly step up to help, like these:
- “Where you at? I got a flight voucher I need to use,” one woman responded.
- “I’m down. I’ll be the old childhood friend,” another wrote. “I can make up some killer stories of us ‘growing up together.’”
Knight’s sister helped her select the bridesmaid to save the day, Kylee Cook, who’s also in the process of planning her wedding. Cook says she was inspired to help a fellow bride after imagining what she would do if it happened to her. So she’ll be standing up for Knight with five other bridesmaids at her November 14th wedding and Knight has also invited some of the other women who applied to be bridesmaids to be there as guests.
“It is absolutely astonishing how many women got to my inbox just wanting to uplift other women!,” the bride-to-be wrote in a follow-up post on Facebook. “For those of you who want to attend the wedding I would love to extend a last minute formal invite!”
Source:Newsweek
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