Discussions from Etiquette and Advice

What is everyone doing for tipping their vendors that own their business? My hair and make up artist both own their company and do weddings on the side so I wasn’t sure if I’m supposed to tip them...

Hi everyone! My fiancé and I booked a venue for April. He called his sister and turns out she got married on that day 6 years ago. My fiancé didn’t even know the date of his sisters wedding. Would you...

When I was touring a venue, the women kept saying that we needed to incorporate money into our budget for what she called "gratuities" for the photographer, DJ, wedding planner, and caterer. She said...

I have a friend who i have know for 10+ years. We are not extremely close but have always been in the same group of friends forever. Some of this group is my family. The friend is getting married to...

When are you guys ordering your wedding favors? With almost one month left till my wedding date, I can't order yet because I don't have all my RSVPs back (only 25%)!

Hi! So recently we got our engagement photos done with a different photographer than who is doing our wedding. While we think the photos of our original photographer are beautiful, we felt super...

Hey Everyone! I hired my day-of-wedding coordinator back in April and my wedding is in December 2021(My venue recommenced her to use for our wedding). We exchanged some emails and the last I heard...

Need some advice. Our wedding photographer was punctual on the day of the wedding and seemed nice enough. At the wedding, she promised me sneak peaks of our photos that Monday- and stated full albums...

This will probably be a long post. Today has barely started and it is already not my day. Our wedding is Oct. 3, so 4 days away. My fiance and I's favorite cousin on his side cancelled coming to the...

My close friend is an incredible professional wedding coordinator, and she generously offered (we never even asked!) to help us coordinate our wedding for free! She is extremely busy as a professional...

My sister askes me to be her MOH and I want to throw her a bridal shower but she is planning a very small destination wedding. It will be immediate family, our one aunt because she lives at the...

We are considering doing online RSVP through our wedding website to cut down on costs for stationery (additional envelopes and stamps, etc). I just wanted to hear everyone’s thoughts with online...

First of all, my FH and I consider ourselves engaged although there is no ring. It is out of stock and we are also waiting for my braces to come off. I have a few things that I would like some...

We are getting married in June 2021 with a destination wedding (in the US but most likely requiring a two hour plane ride for most guests). It will be a smaller wedding (30ish people). We do NOT want...

Hi everyone! My husband and I had a destination wedding planned for May 2nd of this year. Due to COVID-19, we canceled the destination wedding we had planned for 2 years and choose to have a small...

Hello! Does anyone have any experience with having two co-maid of honors and if so, how did you honor them/assign helpful tasks evenly for the wedding day? I would like them both to stand out in some...

Background: I have 2 cousins, a brother and sister (lets call them Alice, 4 and Tom, 8) and my fiancée has nieces, two sisters, (lets call them Sarah, 4 and Jane, 2 The ages I have noted are how...

Hi I’m in another dilemma which has caused me to avoid my friend like the plague. My soon to be husband doesn’t like my good friend. They haven’t spoke in years and he can’t forget her hurting him....

So I need advice. My cousin is one of my bridesmaids, for how much longer i don’t know. She’s been difficult since I bought my dress in august. It started with not wanting to spend said amount on a...

Hello Everyone! I heard of a box that helps you change your last name called newly Named and I wanted to know if anyone has any good or bad comments or reviews? With COVID, trying to get in anywhere...