Discussions from Etiquette and Advice

Is it good to invite more people than you expected? Because I know some won’t show up or won’t RSVP. Just to be safe. For example, I’ve told my venue 120 but I may invite 130-135. Is that good? What...

Hi everybody! We canceled our May wedding due to COVID and are not rescheduling as we’re moving out of state. We wound up getting married yesterday with a beautiful ceremony in a local park with our...

My younger sister (two years) got engaged over the weekend. We are very very close, and I want to make it known now - I am VERY happy for her. Background: Her and her boyfriend dated for three years...

So FH and I are attending a wedding in about a month, about 3-4 hours from where we live. The wedding is a Saturday at noon, so we were going to drive down Friday after work, stay over in a hotel, and...

Hey guys! So I'm getting married March 27, 2021. I'm planning to ask one of my friends to be a bridesmaid, but with all the COVID-19 things happening, I havent asked her to be my bridesmaid "properly"...

We have nearly 100 families we want to invite, and I don't know much of FH family very well as they are in another state...but they all will be expecting an invite. Embarrassingly, because of...

We are getting married in October of this year, Idk if I should send Save the Date out or not with everything that's going on with the coronavirus. I know it's recommended to send between 6-9 months...

Hi ladies! I am (planning on) getting married on May 23, 2020. Our invitations arrived today and we are still going to send them out since we are not going to make a final decision on whether or not...

I had my shower 3 weeks ago before event bans and the spread of the coronavirus took off. We had to postpone our 4-18-20 wedding but haven’t yet picked a new date. My question is because we are...

I am working on an FAQ section for my website and I googled what to include and one section was about "Can I bring my children?" We are having an adult reception with the exception of the kids in the...

So I will be over 12 weeks preggo at the wedding and we haven't told any family yet. (Only my best friend who is coming knows) I thought it would be fun to tell everyone at the wedding. None of FH's...

My fiancé and I booked our wedding for next march and sent save the date cards last month -early but more than 75% of our guest list are out of state and will be traveling so we wanted to give them...

Hi everyone, I've been with my fiance for 2.5 years. We fell in love fast and moved in within 6 months of knowing each other. On our 1 year anniversary he proposed and we were so happy. Fast forward...

Like many I had to reschedule our wedding. The date went from April to October. We think we’re still going to get married on the original date because 1) our Saturday wedding is now a Friday and our...

Budget is tight and don't really have room for the $2,500 an open bar would cost...is it really that terrible to have a cash bar for the reception?

Hey y’all so with the whole virus thing going around my fiancé & I want to push back the actual ceremony and reception after all this settles. We still want to keep the same date and just do us at...

Any shy brides who also feel very weird even trying to dance in front of crowds? I'm not worried about the first dance but actually getting into the crowd and dancing with the guests. I've always had...

My wedding is April 4th and my venue just notified me that because of the Coronavirus we can only have 50 guests or less. My RSVP's are at 70 ppl. We are going to cut it down to family only, which...

Ok, so I had to cancel my shower in my hometown and need some advice on the gifts people sent to me already (my mom had everyone send shower gifts to my house so I didn’t have to drag them home on the...