All you need for a wedding is a bride and a groom, right? Wrong! In order to make it official, not to mention legal, an officiant – be that judge, minister, or other public official – is needed to seal the deal, officially! It’s too easy, we know, to overlook the officiant, so we […]
Sometimes it might seem as if a groom’s job is pretty much done once he’s proposed and the bride-to-be begins her wild ride known as planning a wedding. But the groom still has some very important roles to play in the wedding planning process, so prospective grooms shouldn’t be expecting to sit back and […]
It surprises many many engaged couples who are planning a wedding to discover that there can be some unexpected rules that go along with wedding planning. This isn’t necessarily wedding etiquette-related, though. We consider etiquette to be more like guidelines to make life more pleasant and gracious, but by no means are they […]
One wonderfully handy thing about wedding etiquette is that it makes it very easy to find information about every detail of a wedding, from the very largest to the very smallest detail. No matter what, the odds are good that you’ll find that wedding etiquette has an opinion on the matter.
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The topic of money has always been one that people tread carefully around in discussions with friends and family. But when the discussions are about a wedding and who will be responsible for paying for certain aspects of the wedding events, it’s a topic that cannot be put off talking about for very long. […]
It’s all too easy for many brides in the middle of a wedding-planning whirlwind to momentarily forget that the wedding guests are just as important a part of the day as most other parts of the wedding. After all, the wedding is a celebration and you and your groom look forward to celebrating your […]
A great many brides whose weddings are in the public eye (celebrities and royal weddings quickly come to mind) often see their wedding gown designs admired and ultimately copied by other, non-royal brides. Think of Princess Diana’s wedding gown, Jacqueline Kennedy’s wedding gown, or Caroline Bessette’s wedding gown. Their wedding gown styles […]
There’s a million different wedding gowns out there, and some brides might feel pretty sure that they’ve tried on nearly every one of those million gowns. Today, you could find short gowns, long gowns, big poufy gowns, sleek and slim gowns, lacy gowns, satin gowns, and even gowns with color.
One part of hunting for […]
No matter how large or small a wedding is, one thing that is almost guaranteed to be a part of the day are the flowers. Flowers adorning the church door, scattered by the flower girl, worn proudly as a corsage by the mother of the groom, and of course carried happily by the joyful […]
Many of my married friends have a habit of reading the wedding and engagement announcements in the newspaper. It’s so nice to look at the couples’ photos and read about them and how happily they are anticipating their future together. Some days there’s not a lot of happy things in the newspaper; it’s […]