Discussions from Etiquette and Advice

My fiance and I are currently collecting our RSVP cards to our wedding. We are paying for the wedding ourselves and to keep the costs low, we decided to only allow our guests a "plus one" if they are...

Hi all! Hoping to receive some honest advice. I was the maid of honor in my friends wedding 2 years ago. We are good friends but I wouldn’t say she is my best friend. I recently got engaged and I...

I know its pretty traditional and proper to have Wedding Invitations addressed like: Mr. and Mrs. John Smith; so if I just use first and last names (i.e. John and Mary Smith), does that seem okay? My...

Have anyone of you had your mom or future MIL at your bachelorette? Both are coming to mine and I'm a little nervous about it. We are having a pure romance party and then going to a local bar...

I had a local stationary place do my wedding invitations and one element of them was a monogram at the top with some flowers around it that they lady at the stationary place put together.. we...

My fiancé and I both have large families and I come from a blended family which makes our guest list even larger. We are keeping our guest list to strictly family and like family (people we've grown...

Trying to keep guest list to desired number (not having much luck with that) and I have a handful of single friends who don't have a significant other. Is it rude/tacky to just invite them and NO...

I am a divorced mom of a 5 year old who returned to my maiden name after the divorce. I will be remarrying in May and have a 3 month old with my fiance. I know I want to take his last name but I also...

I know the conventional wisdom is to send an invite to everyone you sent a save-the-date to even if they can't come, but what if you already know someone can't come before you send the save-the-dates?...

There has already been drama with his family from the first date we set, and we finally decided to pick and choose out battles and chose a date that wasn't a close to his brother's high school...

Hey, so my fiance and I are paying for the entire wedding by ourselves. Our reception has to be wrapped up no later than 9 pm. We were thinking of. Renting a party bus for transportation of the after...

Today is our RSVP day and we're at about a 70% response rate. Hoping that more are in the mail today, but we've got quite a few awkward phone calls in our future. What percentage responded RSVP day?...

Hello! My fiancee and I are getting married in Seaside, Florida next year. There are very few hotels in the area, so we are advising everyone to rent houses instead. House sizes range from sleeping...

Hi! Our catering company has a service fee that doesn’t include gratuity so I am trying to budget how much to put away for tips. In the cost, this includes all servers, bartenders, alcohol, etc so...

Backstory: My parents have a friend group of about 5 couples. We are inviting 3 out of 5 couples to my wedding because we are very restricted on the number of guests we can invite. Save the dates have...

This may be an unpopular opinion, but are programs really worth it for the wedding? Seems like they end up in the recycle by the end of the night. Debating on scrapping them.

I need some opinions; to save money on our reception our caterer suggested that we do heavy hors d’oeuvres stations instead of a sit down dinner. Do you think I should make it clear to guests on the...

So I’ve been having the absolute worst experience with my bridesmaids. One already dropped out months ago after I had to track her down and figure out why she never responded to not one message about...

So I was wondering if there are any brides out there who run hot like I do? I can break a sweat very easily, and I also sweat when I'm nervous. With all eyes being on me, I know that nervous sweat is...

What's the etiquette for sending thank you cards after an engagement party? A few of our guests brought gifts (mostly bottle of alcohol), but because we did an open house style party I didn't...