Discussions from Etiquette and Advice

My fiancé and I have been together for 6 years and engaged for 1 year. We were supposed to have an engagement party last April but because of COVID it was canceled. We still would like to have one but...

Newly engaged and trying to finalize who my bridesmaids will be. I have a very close friend, whom I have known since high school, but she is covered (literally from head to toe) in tattoos. She has...

I want to give my parents as well as my future in-laws a thank you gift but not sure when this is usually exchanged. My parents are paying for a large majority of my wedding and I definitely want to...

So I need to know if I’m overreacting. Me and my best friend have been best friends for over 10 years. We also have been dating two guys that are brothers for more than 6 years so you can say we are...

Help, please!! I am trying to figure out the proper way to ask my guest to wear black only to the wedding since I have a vision for my pictures and videos. I wanted to know if I could put it in the...

We just received a gift from one of our wedding guests. Our wedding was in November. I heard that gifts up to a year after the wedding are acceptable but it arrived broken. I have no idea what to do....

HI, for those of us who have had to postpone our weddings to a later date due to the COVID19 crisis/pandemic, we now have to re-invite people again. For us, I do not want to spend additional money on...

Hi everyone. I am getting eloped soon. There will only be the officiant, musician, and photographer in attendance. We know the officiant/pastor and officiant personally. The elopement ceremony will...

So we had to cut our guest list down from 200 people to 75 people due to cost. This basically is only family for us. Our wedding is in New Orleans because that is where I’m from and where my family...

Is it acceptable to wear a white blouse as a wedding guest if I paired it with a knee-length turquoise-blue skirt? My blouse is cotton eyelet, and I'd wear a turquoise-blue beaded necklace. The...

I originally had a bridal party of 9 bridesmaids 9 groomsmen And 4 members of the house party (2 guys and 2 women). The house party will be a part of the pictures, sit at the table with me. Everything...

It's an long held tradition that it's good manners for the bride and groom to greet and thank every guest at the wedding. Either with a receiving line or by making their rounds at the tables during...

Hi ladies, I need some input: My fiancé and I are having a small intimate wedding ceremony for our immediate families (25 guests). There won’t be a reception, just a cocktail hour after the ceremony...

Hey, so my fiancé is in a bit of a dilemma. He realized 13 months into our engagement that he would actually like to have one of his friends as a groomsmen and wants to ask him to be one. I told him...

Hi Brides (and grooms), I need help on how to politely and with class address the fact that we are not allowing plus ones at the wedding. I thought about just listing on the invite or on a separate...

My FH and I sent save the dates out to 101 guests at the end of October when we were more optimistic about the future state of things. Our wedding is June 12th in Massachusetts, where guest counts are...

I can’t help but be eager to plan our wedding and all of the details that will go into it. I’m not sure if now is a good time and I’m so weird and insecure about talking wedding talk with my girls😐I...

Hey, just wanting some advise people might be able to help with. We are having our weddings in September 2021 (cultural plus western) and I’m planning to send formal invitations soon but I had...

What’s the biggest thing stressing you out and how are you gonna handle it? Mine is that our families have VERY different political beliefs and that they’ll spend the whole night fighting about who’s...

I found out that tips were a thing when we booked our venue (I know I'm embarrassed to admit that) but now I'm curious about how much of a tip we should give or how to even determine that?