When we got engaged, I was given the most fabulous book for brides who think Emily Post is not their cup of tea. Of course, Emily Post is the cream of the crop when it comes to weddings. Very classy, right? Despite that, classy I am not. 
That’s why I LOVE this book: “Wedding Etiquette Hell: The Bride’s Bible to Avoiding Everlasting Damnation” by Jeanne Hamilton. It is hilarious and really helps you figure out the little wrongs and rights of your wedding planning, if you need it.
According to Publishers Weekly:
Rather than lecture couples about what they should do before, during and after the Big Day, consultant Hamilton (Bridezilla: True Stories from Etiquette Hell) warns them what not to do in this quick, easy guide to modern-day manners. Hamiliton runs through a list of nuptial no-nos, from invitations and bridal showers to receptions and the like. She provides pages of horror stories culled from www.etiquettehell.com, the Web site she started in 1997. Hamilton scoffs, for example, at the bride and groom who tried to solicit sponsors for their wedding in exchange for “signage at the reception venue.”
She shakes her head at the pair who took their registry “to a new low in greed” when they offered guests chances to pay for specific parts of their honeymoon in Hawaii-the airfare, the housing, the meals and activities. And she reprimands the couple audacious enough to send announcements a full year after the event, telling friends and relatives not invited to the wedding that they can “honor the union” with “contributions to the home purchasing fund.” Tacky and rude, these instances of extreme faux pas make for amusing reading.
Seriously, after receiving a wedding invitation the other day with not one, but TWO separate inserts with the registry information, I’ve just given up on that particular couple.
Although I’d very much like to send them this book, it’s too late for them. But it’s not too late for others! I never thought I’d be such a maniac regarding invitations and registries, but some things you thought everyone knew. I mean really–having the back of your invitation printed with your already-married name on it? Who DOES that? Sure, following the rules of etiquette isn’t for everyone, but I for one am glad to know that my great aunt Mabel won’t have anything to talk about after receiving our invitation!
What irks you about wedding etiquette?
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