Wedding Etiquette as an unaccompanied wedding guest has its own implications.
I have some direct experience with this issue. Not all that long ago, I was invited to my cousin’s son’s wedding.
The wedding ceremony was great, but I was one of the few guests who came alone.
I could have brought a guest, but I didn’t […]
Wedding Etiquette for Jewish weddings encompasses some specific considerations and customs.
Deb from Beautiful Wedding Invitations offers some basic guidelines:
According to Jewish tradition, marriages are made in heaven. Men and women are brought together to marry one another by God himself. Men and women are joined together in marriage so in this tradition, the joining word […]
Wedding Etiquette for Roman Catholic weddings encompasses some specific considerations and customs.
Deb from Beautiful Wedding Invitations offers some basic guidelines:
“Weddings to be performed in the Catholic Church are to be publicly announced three times either from the pulpit or the church bulletin before the wedding,” she writes. “These are called banns.”
She then adds an important […]
Wedding Etiquette considerations sometimes involve whether or not to send reception cards.
Reception cards are not always necessary. Here is some information about when you should use them, and when you should not.
Reception cards are not necessary if the ceremony and the reception are being held at the same place there is room at the […]
Concerned about Wedding Etiquette, a reader asks how a couple can indicate that children are not to attend their wedding, without being obstinate about it.
“There are a lot of children in our extended families and as much as we love them, we really want our wedding to be a formal event and having children there, […]
Wedding Etiquette assumes that all participants in the ceremony will absolutely be thrilled to be there.
But what about if, say, one of the bridesmaids isn’t?
That’s the concern of a reader who wrote to Carley Roney, syndicated wedding columnist and editor of The Knot.
“I asked my soon-to-be sister-in-law to be one of my bridesmaids,” the reader […]
When it comes to selecting your wedding party, It is okay to have a different number of bridesmaid and groomsmen. In the procession, you can pair up men and women or single out your maid of honor while doubling up the other bridesmaids. Feel free to be creative.
If you are particularly close to a male […]