Discussions from Etiquette and Advice

I had been planning to sing one song during the reception at my wedding. It's a tradition that my father (guitar player) sits in with the band at weddings in our family so he's also doing that. The...

So long story short I will basically only need my photographer for about 3 to 4 hours. The venue where we are eloping I found out that they can feed us at our wedding but it'll be about 50 to...

My fiancé and I have decided to downsize our reception for a ton of reasons. However, we’ve already sent out save the dates. We’ve decided to write everyone a nice letter. I’m curious what others have...

Well before COVID, I had been thinking that I asked too many girls to be my BMs. I have 7 BMs, and I felt the overwhelmingness of it especially during my bridal dress appointments. It was stressful to...

Ok - here's another thought. If we say screw it, and get married in a small civil ceremony on our original date or the weekday before, I am under the impression that if we postpone the big wedding...

We are moving forward with our wedding in July and will need to significantly decrease the guest count to maintain health and safety of our immediate older family members. We obviously don't want to...

We are planning on sending out save the dates soon for our 10-10-2020 wedding (we already have them and are not planning on wasting all of them). We have an A list and a B list now due to the virus;...

Are we finally moving toward the idea that if you have a private wedding or elopement that you can have showers and parties too? Or are we letting Covid take those away too? I know many of us have...

Our wedding got postponed due to COVID-19 and we want to elope but I can't stand my brother's girlfriend. She moved in with us due to everything going on right now and has been an awful houseguest....

Hi everyone! We are having an adults only wedding and I know I've been reading that you really shouldn't say "adults only" on invitations, but I want to add it to my wedding website. Anyone have any...

I live in california and things are slowly opening up. I have been in contact with my Venue a lot during this Pandemic. I got some great news yesturday! They will are having there first small events...

I'm having some difficulty with figuring out how to address an envelope to my FH's family. We're having a more intimate, informal wedding, so we are inviting our close family and friends, and anyone's...

If we are doing an open bar, would it be alright to let the bartenders set up a tip jar? My venue is giving me the option to do that or not (they are providing the bartenders). I've been tending bar...

I'm looking for some advice... My husband and I got married on July 4, 2013, we had a baby in August 2014. Whenever our daughter was four days old I found out my husband has been having an affair for...

Does anyone have an example of verbiage to use when uninviting guests due to having to reduce numbers because of COVID 19?

So my fiance's sister happens to be his best friend. I've known of this the entire duration of our two plus year relationship. However in recent weeks and in our discussions of marriage and marital...

I have a fairly large group of family and friends and my bridesmaids and I decided that doing one big shower would probably be the easiest. Now my sister in law to be wants to throw her own shower...

My boyfriend is in the Air Force, but we really need money, so we wanted to go to the court house when he comes home , but we don't want anyone to know. We will get a lot of money for being married,...

So my SO and I are kind of "dark". Halloween has always been the best time of year for us.We were thinking of doing a manor venue wedding with slightly dark details (black and dark wine colors) on the...

My fiance and I have no friends. None. We have an 11 year age gap. He's an introvert, I'm not, but all my friends disappeared after my breakup with my ex. We'll have no friends to stand up, attend...