A week ago, my best friend since kindergarten asked me to be her maid of honor. It seems so crazy. Here we are, fifteen years after knowing each other and she is getting married! It seems like just yesterday I would come home from first grade and she would come home from third on a Friday night just to move into my house for the entire weekend. It seems like just yesterday we were getting ourselves in some sort of trouble that we would have to get ourselves out of. It seems like just yesterday we were arguing about who got to play the bride and who had to be the groom.

When she asked me to be her maid of honor I was overjoyed, and honestly, a little surprised. I mean yes we have been friends FOREVER and yes, I expect her to be my maid of honor someday, but currently I live four and a half hours away from her and I won’t be able to be with her through every tough decision she has to make along the way. But I will do my best to be there for as many as I can.

When people think of being someone’s maid of honor, they think it is a duty for a day. To stand by the bride on her big day and hold her bouquet as she and her new husband recite their vows, or to hold her dress as she goes to the bathroom. Being my best friend’s maid of honor means so much more than just being there for her for one day! Being her maid of honor means that I will be there for a lifetime. I will be there later in life when she has her second child and needs someone to help her out because her husband is at work and she has two little ones to take care of. I will be there for her when she just needs a shoulder to cry on because she is having a bad day. Someday, when we are older and need someone to run around the nursing home with, I will be there for her. Being a maid of honor is not just a duty you are given for a day, but a duty you are given for a lifetime.