bridesmaid vs groomsman

bridesmaid

noun
  • A woman who attends a bride during her wedding ceremony, as part of the main wedding party. 

  • A person or team that perennially finishes well, but never first. 

verb
  • To act as a bridesmaid for; to attend a bride during her wedding ceremony. 

groomsman

noun
  • A man who serves as one of a number of attendants to a bridegroom at a wedding, one of whom is the best man. 

How often have the words bridesmaid and groomsman occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )