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waiter noun A wedding attendant, especially the best man or maid of honor. [OED3 waiter n 6b obsolete except U.S. dialect or historical; Web3 waiter n 2b “attendant of the bride or groom at a wedding," South; DARE labels this usage “chiefly South, South Midland”]

1937 Hyatt Kiverlid 104 She was one o’ my waiters when I married Jeems. 1949 Kurath Word Geog East US 40 Other expressions that are used throughout the South and the South Midland are pallet, waiter, branch, and the well-known you-all ... Waiter ... is the common folk term for the best man and the bridesmaid in Virginia and the Carolinas ... it is not common in West Virginia, but scattered instances of it occur even as far north as the Monongahela. 1966 Dakin Vocab Ohio River Valley 499 The bridegroom’s principal attendant is usually called the best man everywhere in the Ohio Valley ... older speakers in eastern and southwestern Kentucky still say waiter. As among simple folk south of the Potomac in the East, this term is usually used for both male or [sic] female attendants (best man and bridesmaid or maid of honor). 1996 Montgomery Coll = only an attendant (Brown), = best man (Cardwell).