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Congratulations to the winners - tiffany, AliCherri1, cara, jkl216!
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Today we’re giving away 4 copies of Something New: Wedding Etiquette for Rule Breakers, Traditionalists, and Everyone in Between by etiquette columnist Elise MacAdam. Something New takes a look at real life etiquette case studies like: Can you have an adults only wedding? Do you have to invite your boss? Can you decline being a bridesmaid and preserve your friendship? It’s an excellent guide for the modern bride!
To enter, please tell us if you’ve ever made a wedding etiquette faux pas. You have until 8pm PST tonight. Good luck! 
I put address labels on my STDs ::ducks under desk in shame:: I could really use this book…my mom didn’t teach me any “rules”. I at least want to know them before I break them!
We didn’t know that a guest of my FFIL is married (his fault since we don’t know said guest and he didn’t tell us). So when we received our “single” person RSVP card, both the guest’s and wife’s names were squeezed onto the one line with both menu choices circled. Needless to say, I am embarrassed, but at least I can genuinely say it was not my fault!
Not sure if its really a faux pas, but its something I would do differently if I had it to do over again. I was invited to a friends wedding (the only wedding I have had to decline) and figured since I wasn’t going, I didn’t have to get them a gift. Now I wish I had.
Well, I am a bit delayed on sending out some thank you letters. opps.
I was helping my friend with his wedding details a few days before the big day. In the middle of stuffing favours, I announced how glad I was that he wasn’t having any cheesy slideshow, how it was typical and boring and how I’ve seen it at every wedding. He didn’t really have an opinion but after hearing me bash it, he agreed that it wasn’t such a great idea. Half an hour later, the best man whispers to me that they were going to surprise him with a slideshow of pictures. I felt like such a snot. Guess who’s having a slideshow at her wedding now?!
i didn’t buy any gifts for a wedding i went to.
Well, as a wedding invitee, I once made the mistake of sending my reply way past the deadline. Now, with an upcoming wedding, and knowing all the stress a bride is under to get the headcount ASAP, I could kick myself!
i gave a gift not on the registry because they registered so far in advance, half of the stuff was bought and/or no longer in stock. i also never sent thank you cards for our engagement party gifts!! eeks!
I added my boyfriend as a guest when his name wasn’t on the invite *hangs head in shame* BUT - the bride asked me repeatedly before the invite went out if BF would be able to go and I told her no and then when the invite came he WAS able to go, soooooo….. we added him and I called to make sure it was alright - still really emabarrassed though.
well.. I almost made a big boo boo by wearing a white dress at my friend’s wedding. My friend told me that that’s a big wedding etiquette no no… I had no idea…
I brought a date without asking in my younger days. A mutual friend assured me it’d be “no big deal” and not knowing anything about what goes into planning and paying for a wedding I just thought, “well, okay!”
I still feel bad:)
not yet…but it’s still early!!!
I was in a wedding and in college, and so I never gave the bride a gift. Being a bridesmaid was just so expensive! I feel terrible about it still, and promise to make it up to her by buying her a big baby shower gift this summer! I’m also thinking of requesting NO GIFTS from our bridal party.
Our families have no experience with formal weddings, so any book would be helpful!
I haven’t made any yet, but my friends are all JUST starting to get married. I have a lot to learn. My DAD is the who planned my parent’s wedding. lol!
I invited to the shower people who where not invited to the wedding. My family/friends are not in the country, and his don’t live where we live. So to have more than 2 guests coming, I had to choose people who we hadn’t invited to the wedding.
We were invited to the wedding of a former co-worker of FH’s. Since it was his friend, I left the decision about attending, and the corresponding RSVPing to FH. A few weeks later, we got an angry phone call from the groom wondering whether we would be attending - FH had forgotten to RSVP. :S
I wrote the couple a check for their wedding and addressed it to Mrs. HisLastname. Then I find out she’s not changing her last name. Opps!
I accidentally spoiled a surprise bridal shower for my FI’s cousin’s wife. I was IMing and told her “see you tomorrow!” which made her realize something was up. Oops!
We are printing all the addresses on our invites
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