DEAR MISS MANNERS: Is there both a maid of honor and a matron of honor in a wedding?
GENTLE READER: A wedding? Whose wedding?
That of a bride who has two close friends, one married and one single -- yes. Miss Manners should remind others that a wedding is not a show with roles to be cast, but a ritual with honors to be distributed.
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