Bridesmaid Proposals

I rolled my best friend’s flowers in a fake front page that called her my maid of honor, and she cried in a Trader Joe’s parking lot.

I tied little printed tags onto seven boxes of cookies the week I asked my girls, and only one ribbon survived the car ride.

How I asked my eight-year-old niece to be a junior bridesmaid without making it a whole production, plus the little printables that actually landed.

The bridesmaid gifts my friends still have, plus the printable bits I added so they cost less than the box they came in.

I asked my four favorite people in a parking lot, two of them crying, and not one box was involved.

My sister cried over a printed card and a bag of the gummy worms she stole from me in 2009, so I have opinions about MOH boxes now.

I asked my best friend to be my maid of honor over cold fries in a parking lot, and the little printed card I handed her did more talking than I did.

I rewrote my maid of honor card four times at a diner counter, and the version I kept was the messy one.

The cards I actually handed out, plus the two I almost sent and changed my mind about at the last second.

I made five bridesmaid boxes for less than one of those pre-filled ones online, and most of the budget went to a candle I almost forgot.