Once you’re happily off on your honeymoon and are reminiscing about your wedding, it can be easy to forget all the effort and work that went into organizing your special day.
But it is essential that you don’t forget to thank the people who helped you make this (hopefully) once-in-a-lifetime event so special.
And if you are a bride, your bridesmaids and maid of honor should be at the top of your list.
They’ve helped you contact vendors, organize goody bags, choose your dress, celebrate your bachelorette party, and they’ve calmed you down when you were stressed. Your bridesmaids have been with you through thick and thin on your journey down the aisle.
When your friends (and family members) have helped you with an event this important, how can you ever repay them?
Well, aside from showing them the same support on their big days, it is crucial that you express your gratitude.
Here is a list of great things to write in bridesmaid thank you cards. The inscriptions range from profound to downright hilarious.
32 great things to write in a bridesmaid thank you card
- Thank you so much for standing by my side while I said, “I do.” Your support, care, and help have meant the world to me.
- Thank you for being my bridesmaid. I will never forget your enthusiastic support and the fun-loving energy you brought to my special day.
- I am so grateful to you for playing such an important role in my wedding. Every time I looked at you, you gave me such a big, beautiful, encouraging smile.
- Thank you, a million times over, for being the best bridesmaid a girl could wish for. I can’t wait to watch you walk down the aisle later this year.
- You have no idea how much having you in my bridal party meant to me. Thank you for all your kind words and the sound advice on my wedding day.
- Thank you for being part of my wonderful bridal squad. Love y’all so much.
- Thank you for being such an important part of my bridal brigade!
- You were the life of the party, but you always knew how to keep things from getting out of hand.
- What would we have done without you? Thank you for your calm, cool, and collected manner—which you managed to maintain even in the most stressful moments.
- Thank you for holding my train, fixing my hair, and reassuring me that everything would be okay. You were the epitome of the perfect bridesmaid, and I don’t know how I’ll ever repay you.
- How on earth did I get so lucky? I got to marry the man of my dreams with my best friend by my side. Thanks for all your love and support on my big day.
- Oh, I wish we could do it all again! I had the best day of my life, and it wouldn’t have been nearly as special without you beside me in that bridesmaid dress.
- Thank you, dearest bridesmaid, for tolerating the bridezilla I became. You’re a goddess for putting up with me.
- Thank you for being the Monica to my Rachel and the Serena to my Blair…I could never have done it without you.
- Well, my hair caught fire, my dress ripped, the ringbearer dropped the rings…but we got there in the end! Thank you for calming me down and encouraging me to see the funny side of things when everything was going wrong. You were a godsend!
- Well…we were certainly ready to PARTAAAAAAY! Thank you for celebrating all the highs (and helping me through all the lows) of my journey down the aisle.
- Thank you for all your love and support…and if this whole marriage business all turns out to be a mistake, at least it’s one we made together.
- Thank you so much for putting up with all that wedding BS.
- Thank you for tolerating the terrible dress I put you in just so you couldn’t look hotter than me on my wedding day.
- Bridesmaid for a day, soul sister for life.
- I literally can’t without you…thank you for being my bridesmaid.
- I think we both know you the wheels would have fallen off without you. So, thank you, thank you, thank you, etc. to the best bridesmaid ever.
- Just imagine what a disaster my big day would have been without you. Thank you for helping me avoid trainwreck central and getting me safely down the aisle.
- Thank you for being my literal rock on my wedding day (and for letting me cut off your circulation squeezing your hand before I walked down the aisle).
- “Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints on your heart.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- You are the sister I chose.
- “Friendship isn’t about whom you have known the longest…it’s about who came into your life and never left your side.” – Mikaela Tiu
- Thank you for being the wind beneath my wings on my wedding day.
- “It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds.” – Gina Barreca
- Life is better with your bridesmaids by your side.
- “Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.” – Virginia Woolf
- “Women instinctually know how to nourish each other, and just being with each other is restorative.” – Tanja Taaljard
Moving thank you notes for your bridesmaids
Look, all your besties would have been offended if you hadn’t asked them to stand by you in matching dresses while you committed yourself to your new husband.
Of course, your posse was surely delighted to help you enter married life.
If they are true friends, they will have been overjoyed to see you happy.
But the honor of being named a bridesmaid also comes with a boatload of responsibility.
Effectively, asking someone to be your bridesmaid is like saying, “Hey, do you want to do a whole lot of favors for me while I’m in a really stressed-out mood?”
And even if you managed to keep your inner bridezilla in check, your friends still had to do a lot for you as part of their role in your wedding party.
All that is to say, it’s important you let them know how sincerely you value the sacrifices they had to make to help you on your special day.
Stuck for what to write in your thank you cards? Here are a few suggestions that might jog your creativity.
1. Thank you so much for standing by my side while I said, “I do.” Your support, care, and help have meant the world to me.
This message is a nice way to tie together the symbolic meaning of the phrase “stand by my side” with the fact that bridesmaids literally stand by one’s side.
Spelling out exactly what you are thanking them for in the next sentence makes sure that you have expressed your gratitude clearly.
You can follow this up with one more sentence that cites a specific example of a time your friend supported you on your big day. That can even be when they asked, “what’s up?” or sent you a text to cheer you up when you looked worried.
2. Thank you for being my bridesmaid. I will never forget your enthusiastic support and the fun-loving energy you brought to my special day.
If you have a bridesmaid who is the life of every party and always manages to inject that extra bit of hype to every occasion, this is the thank you note for her.
The great thing about a bridal party is that there is room in it for all kinds of friends.
You might turn to your more reserved friend when you need serious advice about pre-wedding jitters.
But that doesn’t minimize what your good-time-girl friend brings to the mix.
Personalize your wedding thank you cards by tailoring your message to address the specific things each friend helped with on your big day.
3. I am so grateful to you for playing such an important role in my wedding. Every time I looked at you, you gave me such a big, beautiful, encouraging smile.
We all have that one friend we look to for reassurance when things become hectic.
This card is a great way to say thank you to the rock in your life for always knowing exactly what expression to wear to bring you a sense of calm.
Whether you are writing to a particularly important bridesmaid or to your maid of honor, this card expresses your gratitude for a very special friendship.
If you want to thank your maid of honor in an extra special way, consider making a scrapbook for your best friend. Use photos of you two from your big day (and the days and weeks leading up to it).
4. Thank you, a million times over, for being the best bridesmaid a girl could wish for. I can’t wait to watch you walk down the aisle later this year.
We often hit milestones around the same time as our friends do.
This message makes a great thank you card inscription if you and a friend have gone through becoming engaged (and then wedding planning) around the same time.
Telling your friend thanks for being a brilliant bridesmaid and then saying you can’t wait to return the favor will mean a lot to her.
Your special bond will make it easy to think of things to write in an anniversary card for her for the rest of your lives.
5. You have no idea how much having you in my bridal party meant to me. Thank you for all your kind words and the sound advice on my wedding day.
For the girl who always acts as the therapist of your friendship group, there is nothing more rewarding than being thanked for her good advice.
Most of us are happy to listen to our friends’ concerns and tell them what we think they should do. But that doesn’t mean that it isn’t also taxing to take on someone else’s burdens.
Telling the friend in your life who always offers you good suggestions about how to handle your problems that you appreciate her counsel won’t go amiss.
6. Thank you for being part of my wonderful bridal squad. Love y’all so much.
No time to get overly personal in your bridal cards? Then this is the way forward.
You can have a batch of cute thank you cards printed with this message inside them.
Then you can add any short personal touches you want to by hand.
This kind of card is the perfect place to jot down a note saying, “you looked beautiful in your bridesmaid dress.”
Hearing that you looked at them and thought, “you are beautiful” on a day when the focus was decidedly on you, will warm their heart and make them feel seen.
7. Thank you for being such an important part of my bridal brigade!
Thinking about getting a stack of pre-inscribed cards made? Then this note makes a great message.
Do you have a huge group of friends and found it too hard to hurt someone’s feelings by leaving them out of your wedding party? If so, you may not have time to handwrite everyone’s cards.
Don’t worry, they won’t be offended. It’s the thought that counts and getting a thank you card will mean the world to them…regardless of whether it is handwritten or pre-printed.
8. You were the life of the party, but you always knew how to keep things from getting out of hand.
Every party needs a bit of off-the-wall energy to keep things fun. But when things get too much, it can take away from the event that’s actually being celebrated, namely your love for your partner.
On your big day, you will have been far too busy with all your bridal obligations to also act as crowd control.
Do you have a highly competent bridesmaid who took over and prevented things from going too far? If so, you can mention her ability to strike the perfect balance when you write a thank you card for her.
9. What would we have done without you? Thank you for your calm, cool, and collected manner—which you managed to maintain even in the most stressful moments.
This is the thank you card for the real adult in your life. Most of us are just doing our best to get by and need life hacks like writing on a whiteboard to keep us motivated and on track.
But all of us have that one friend who seems to know exactly how to do adulting right.
Not only do they have a house, but they also have a house guestbook. From their hair to their daily planner, everything about them is neat, organized, and tidy.
Your organized friend always knows how to handle difficult and stressful situations.
Thank her for her ability to manage complicated situations when you write her bridesmaid thank you card.
10. Thank you for holding my train, fixing my hair, and reassuring me that everything would be okay. You were the epitome of the perfect bridesmaid, and I don’t know how I’ll ever repay you.
Take a moment and think about what the quintessential bridesmaid looks like.
She’s probably someone who not only knows how to respond to “hi” from your new husband’s awkward cousin, but who can also fix your hair during a last-minute emergency.
If you were lucky enough to have a gal like that by your side, thank her by mentioning the specific ways she helped you out on your big day. Then, tell her you don’t know how you’ll ever repay her for everything she’s done for you.
11. How on earth did I get so lucky? I got to marry the man of my dreams with my best friend by my side. Thanks for all your love and support on my big day.
There are two crucial people in almost every woman’s life: her partner and her best friend.
During a wedding, most brides have the great privilege of standing in front of everyone they love and between the two people they love the most—their husband (or wife) and their maid of honor.
Of course, not everyone is so lucky.
Having a wonderful partner and a truly loving best friend is a very fortunate position to be in.
If that sounds like your life, count your blessings. Use your bridesmaid thank you card as an opportunity to let your best friend know how fortunate you feel.
12. Oh, I wish we could do it all again! I had the best day of my life, and it wouldn’t have been nearly as special without you beside me in that bridesmaid dress.
A lot of people talk a big talk about their wedding day being the best day of their life. That’s a lot to live up to.
But for some of us, our weddings genuinely are an absolutely exceptional day filled with joy and love.
If that was your experience (and you know it was greatly enhanced by the support of the women standing on your left), then send them this inscription in your bridesmaid thank you cards.
Funny messages for a bridesmaid thank you card
Not everyone likes moving messages. A lot of us struggle to hear expressions of love and gratitude, because we’d rather be joking around.
If you and your friends roll your eyes at anything sincere and lovey-dovey, here are some hilarious notes to write in the thank you cards you send your bridesmaids.
13. Thank you, dearest bridesmaid, for tolerating the bridezilla I became. You’re a goddess for putting up with me.
It’s normal to transform into a bit of a neurotic monster as your wedding approaches.
After all, most people who organize parties of this size and importance have literal degrees in event management.
That’s just to say that, even you might have behaved atrociously amid all your stress, it’s okay and your friends understand why.
However, a little self-awareness goes a long way.
Were your best friends practically quaking in those ludicrously high heels you made them wear every time they asked you, “How’s your day going?”
If so, you owe them a big thank you. They’ll get a good chuckle out of your calling yourself a bridezilla.
14. Thank you for being the Monica to my Rachel and the Serena to my Blair…I could never have done it without you.
Have you and your closest friend have always modelled your relationship on the badass female duos you’ve seen on screen?
If so, this makes the perfect “thank you” when your bestie nails being your bridesmaid or maid of honor.
15. Well, my hair caught on fire, my dress ripped, the ringbearer dropped the rings…but we got there in the end! Thank you for calming me down and encouraging me to see the funny side of things when everything was going wrong. You were a godsend!
All big days have funny moments where things go wrong. No matter how meticulously you plan your wedding, you’ll never be able to avoid the little snags.
While these mishaps may seem like the end of the world when they’re happening, they make funny fodder for post-wedding thank you cards.
16. Well…we were certainly ready to PARTAAAAAAY! Thank you for celebrating all the highs (and helping me through all the lows) of my journey down the aisle.
If you know, you know.
This is a reference to the cult classic movie Bridesmaids. If you haven’t seen it…what rock have you been living under?
Go watch it now!
But seriously, most brides and their wedding parties will have seen Kristin Wiig’s iconic depiction of a jealous bridesmaid. And this line is the perfect funny inscription for a thank you card.
17. Thank you for all your love and support…and if this whole marriage business all turns out to be a mistake, at least it’s one we made together.
Are you and your closest friend so ride-or-die that you’re basically co-dependent?
If you are, then you can joke that if your marriage ends up being a misstep, at least she was right there with you when it happened.
18. Thank you so much for putting up with all that wedding BS.
Not keen on the typical, sappy pseudo-love letters that brides write to the women who helped them make it to the end of the aisle?
This might be more your style then.
Your friends know what your sense of humor is like, so they’ll surely appreciate a thank you card that is very “you.”
19. Thank you for tolerating the terrible dress I put you in just so you couldn’t look hotter than me on my wedding day.
If you want to make a joke that also serves as a compliment, tell your friend that you’re writing to thank her for letting you dress her badly.
If you say it’s because you couldn’t have her looking better than you, you’re simultaneously making her chuckle while also growing her confidence.
She’ll love the funny card (and the ego boost).
20. Bridesmaid for a day, soul sister for life.
Some brides decide that a photograph is worth a thousand words and use images to convey their gratitude.
If you had disposable or instant cameras floating around your wedding dinner tables, you can write notes on polaroid pictures that you send your bridesmaids.
This message would make a great caption for a photo.
Alternatively, you can have digital photos printed on cards.
You can either pre-print messages across the front like you would on holiday cards, or you can handwrite your message on the back.
21. I literally can’t without you…thank you for being my bridesmaid.
This is a funny way to express that you were utterly dependent on your bridesmaids on your big day.
They’ll think it’s clever that you’ve used the common internet slang phrase, “I literally can’t…” and modified it to convey that you “can’t” without their support.
Finish off your message by clearing stating what you’re really feeling, which is gratitude that your friend stood by your side during your wedding.
22. I think we both know you the wheels would have fallen off without you. So, thank you, thank you, thank you, etc. to the best bridesmaid ever.
If one bridesmaid stood out above the rest and was, so-to-speak, the MVP of the wedding party (if not the whole wedding), make sure she knows how much you value her.
Showing her that you’re aware that she kept things together for you will show her that her efforts were not in vain. She’ll find your card funny because she’ll know just how true it is that you needed her to keep things on track.
23. Just imagine what a disaster my big day would have been without you. Thank you for helping me avoid trainwreck central and getting me safely down the aisle.
It isn’t weakness to rely on your friends. Heck, even The Beatles knew you can only get by with a little help from them.
But if one (or a few) of your bridesmaids prevented things from going downhill rapidly, thank them with this message that manages to be both moving and funny.
24. Thank you for being my literal rock on my wedding day (and for letting me cut off your circulation squeezing your hand before walking down the aisle).
A lot of people get cold feet, and despite what Hollywood will tell you, just because you were nervous before walking down the aisle doesn’t mean you’ve made a mistake.
That said, if one of your bridesmaids literally allowed you to squeeze her like a stress ball before your big moment, you’ll need to thank her for it.
This card inscription will surely make her laugh and reassure her that, if you’re joking about it, you know you’ve ultimately made the right decision.
Beautiful quotes and sayings for a bridesmaid thank you card
If you’d like to borrow the words of better women and men to express your gratitude to your closest friends, here are some beautiful quotes and sayings you could choose.
Inscriptions in bridesmaid thank you cards don’t always have to be original to be heartfelt. If you need a little help figuring out what the best way to say thank you is, check out these emotional notes.
25. “Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints on your heart.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
This famous quote by the eloquent First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt is so well known because it taps into something about friendship that we all know is true.
How many people do we meet in our lives, and how few stay beside us for long enough for us to call them friends?
And of those few, how many do we feel a real soul-level connection to?
The answer is probably: as many bridesmaids as we have at our wedding.
That alone should drive home just how special the friendship between a bride and her bridesmaids is.
Make sure you thank the women you love for their support on your wedding day.
And there’s no harm in borrowing Eleanor’s words to do so.
26. You are the sister I chose.
If you value your closest friends like sisters, you can write this in the thank you card you send them after your wedding.
This common saying is a beautiful way to tell your bridesmaids you see them as family.
27. “Friendship isn’t about whom you have known the longest…it’s about who came into your life and never left your side.” – Mikaela Tiu
If you’ve only known one of your bridesmaids for a short amount of time, this is the perfect thank-you quote.
She’ll appreciate your acknowledgement that even though you don’t have a long-established friendship, you value her a lot.
28. Thank you for being the wind beneath my wings on my wedding day.
Referring to someone as the wind beneath your wings is a beautiful way to thank them for showing you support and allowing you to “fly” on your big day.
This makes a beautiful inscription for a stack of pre-printed cards. You can always write one of the other messages in this list inside the card as an additional handwritten note.
29. “It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds.” – Gina Barreca
This quote would look utterly lovely beneath a beautiful picture of you and the bridesmaid you are thanking.
Choose a picture taken at your wedding of you in your wedding dress and your bestie in her bridesmaid dress. She’ll cherish your card forever.
30. Life is better with your bridesmaids by your side.
Why not have a stack of thank you cards made with this note printed on the front? You can include it beneath a picture of you with your whole bridal squad.
Again, you can always personalize pre-printed cards by adding a little handwritten inscription for your closest (or all!) your bridesmaids.
31. “Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.” – Virginia Woolf
If you’re a literary person, you might want to draw on Virginia Woolf’s wisdom to thank your dearest female friends for the important role they played on your big day.
32. “Women instinctually know how to nourish each other, and just being with each other is restorative.” – Tanja Taaljard
Get this quote printed on the inside of your bridesmaid thank you cards. This perfectly expresses how most women feel about the friends they ask to be their bridesmaids.
Of course, you can also write in as part of a longer message in a hand-written card.
Follow it up with your own words of thanks or a few choice anecdotes.