0 the most important bridesmaid at a marriage ceremony
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the term "maid of honour in waiting" was sometimes used.
The bridal entourage usually consists of the maid of honour, bridesmaids, best man, groomsmen, ringbearer boys, and flower girls.
A maid of honour was a maiden, meaning that she was unmarried, and was usually young.
Additionally, a maid of honour is styled with this prefix for life.
She had more reasons than historians customarily acknowledge, strategic as well as symbolic, for positioning her maids of honour as vestal virgins.
Jackson was her maid of honour at her wedding.
Middleton served as the maid of honour.
