Difficulty: Moderately Easy
Step1
Share in the bride's happiness. Whether she’s a family member or close friend, she's making a huge decision in her life that she wants you to be an integral part of. Put aside all the reasons you’re dragging your feet (money, time, no date, your hatred of the dress and shoes) and get into the spirit of it.
Step2
Try on every bridesmaid’s dress in the store that you want to. Take pictures, especially of the hideously ugly ones that are clearly the wrong size and the worst shade of yellow with the biggest butt bow you’ve ever seen. Try on the dresses and colors your bride is actually considering as well, but don’t skip on trying on the truly heinous ones. This is easily half the fun of dress shopping.
Step3
Get into planning the bachelorette party. Whether you’re going bar hopping, clubbing, out to dinner, to the theater, to a major sporting event, or having a girl’s night sleepover, make sure it’ll be something fun and fabulous the bride will like and you’ll all remember. Take tons of pictures and have fun goodie bags to commemorate the day.
Step4
Sit back at the bridal shower and be glad it’s not you that has to look excited at the sixth set of dishes you’ve opened in the past hour. You’re not going to have paper cuts from all that wrapping paper, or have to worry about where you’re going to store all that stuff until after the wedding; you can enjoy the food and champagne and even flirt with the hot catering waiter if you feel like it.
Step5
On the actual wedding day, smile and enjoy the day. As a bridesmaid, you have free reign to take advantage of eating all the good food and dancing as much as you want, since you don’t have to go around to everyone and greet relatives you’ll probably never see again. Just don’t take too much advantage of the open bar; you don’t want to be drunken bridesmaid everyone talks about for years to come.
Novice 
