*sigh* Matron of Honour is a married bridesmaid, a bridesmaid is an unmarried bridesmaid. And no bridesmaid signed my register, both our fathers did.

My chief bridesmaid was my sister, but that means nothing. Aside from hold my bouquet and lift my veil, both bridesmaids did exactly the same. The girl who organised my hen night was actually the girl who did the reading at the wedding, not even a bridesmaid! (In fact, I sorted out my sister's car accident claim the morning of my wedding while she had her hair done, so I probably did more for her than she did for me in all, some great chiefy she was!)

TBH, I wouldn't care where I was in the hierarchy, if someone loves you enough to ask you to be a bridesmaid/Matron of Honour I wouldn't mind if someone else were chiefy or signing the register - I mean, who knows who signs, really? Does it matter? No. It's something that very few people ever see or think about, who signed what for whom.