Alternative Names for Your Wedding Party

There are so many weird and creepy reasons behind why wedding traditions exist. One I've never understood (of many) is the whole bridesmaids have to be women, groomsmen have to be men thing. Maybe it's never been a hard and fast RULE per say...but more often than not, I see this tradition being upheld.

Well we're not hoppin' on that train. Hells to the no. I have man-friends. Mike has lady-friends. This isn't the 1950s, folks.

So we solved that issue. But then there was the question of sides. We have a lot of mutual friends, so how do we decide who goes where? At first, the decision was a bit of a struggle - "No! I want him on my side," "But you get to have her on your side" blah blah blah DUMB blah.

Girls on the right. Boys on the left. Rules, rules, rules.
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Then we were like, "Well how bout NO wedding party." Then we quickly ruled that out, as we would feel regret had we not had our closest homies up there with us.

So in conclusion, Mike and I have decided to forgo the whole distinction of who is on whose side altogether. Our wedding party will not be defined by gender. There will be no 'sides'. Our party could be doing a cheerleading pyramid behind us for all I care - but there will be no talk of who belongs to who and where and why and how and WHAT-the-eff-EVER. There will be one party. One group. One hoard. One LOVE.

We have yet to come up with the right title for this unified wedding party of ours, but I've come up with a few ideas - some are a little out there, but as usual I'm going to ask that you 'go with it'. These are suggestions for anyone who is having similar issues with titles. Perhaps you guys can weigh in...give a gal a little direction...? Pretty please?

• Bridal Band
• The Con-glom
• The Menagerie (for you animal lovers out there...)
  
• Party People (I'm liking this one...hmm...)
• Bridal Bevy
• The Coven (for all you Twi-hards. Yep, *guilty*)
• The Mob
• Roadies (for a rock n roll affair)
  
• Support Staff
• Cohorts
  
• Well-wishers
• Pillars of Strength (You can call them POS's for short to be funny - get it? Pieces of sh*t! Annnnd cue fart sound)
• <Insert Bride and Groom's names or initials> Enthusiasts (Ours would be: M and B Enthusiasts)
• Bridal Junkies (for all you drug users out there. Ok yeah I'm kidding)
• Partners in Crime (P-I-C's, yo!)
• Allies
• Comrades
• Bridal Buds
• Heroes (had to throw in a Bowie reference...)
• The Spiders From Mars (and another...)
• Bodyguards
• Chaperones (Don't we all want to be reminded of our high school dance days? Hmm, maybe not so much)
  
• Entourage
• The Wedding Train
• The Convoy
• Friends of Honor
• Homies of Honor (Call 'em your HOH's. Yeah, son!)
  
• Cronies
• Bosom Buddies
• Honorable Mates
  
• The Bridal-mobile (too far? No. Too dumb)
• The Wedding F*cks (ha. I funny)
  

Ok, I'm fresh outta ideas. Pick one of these, or suggest something - I don't care how out there it is. Anyone else use a different name for you wedding party and/or groomsmen/bridesmaids? Anyone forgo the tradition altogether?