Discussions from Etiquette and Advice

Hello everyone! My wedding date is 10-12-2019 in Jacksonville, Florida. The total cost for a DJ for 5.5 hours and a photo booth is $1500( travel fees included and he lives 1.5 hours away). He...

I wrote in about invitation wording yesterday, little did I know that my parents would have such a strong feeling about it. Here's what we proposed: Together with {parents anmes} {my name} and {FH's...

Hey all! I was wondering what you all plan on doing/have done for your bridesmaids when it came to expectations of what to pay for. My MOH told me that she fully expected to pay for everything: her...

Anyone live in a city where none of your families live? Our families live in other states. We want the ceremony in Oregon and thought it might be easier on all if we had a very small, intimate...

We plan to send out paper invites in the mail but my fiance wants to have a line that asks guests to RSVP through our website. Is this normal? Tacky? He got the idea from 2 weddings we went to...

HI Ladies! I need advice. We have decided to send out Save The Date by mail but will not be sending out formal invitation, as our Save The Date cards will have our website where the guest will be able...

I was thinking about not sending RSVP cards with an invitation and instead writing "please rsvp on our website". I want to save on postage + paper! Is that tacky? I'm afraid the guests who are older...

Hi! I know this question has been answered before a few years ago, but wondering how people would approach this now that most know how Amazon works. I got 3 gifts purchased from one of my wedding...

My future husband has a 9 year old son. We get along so well. I would like to write vows to him, but am having a hard time trying to decide what to write. Anyone want to shed some light on this?

I’m an honorary bridesmaid (the second in line out of eight bridesmaids) for my sister who is getting married this summer. About a month ago I had heard she and the maid of honor were planning a...

FH's family invited FSIL when FH doesn't want to invite her. They have reached out to me and told me that I need to send her an invitation. I think we should invite her but I don't want to go against...

So my best friend is the bride and she chose me to be her Maid of Honor. I want to start a group chat with all the bridesmaids, but 3 of them I don’t know. How should I tell them I am the maid of...

I just had my wedding last Friday. It went great and everything but now that it’s over, I feel pretty let down by my bridesmaids. I never asked for a lot and was flexible with them. One of them was...

My sister and I have a pretty large age, she's 7 years younger than me but we're close and I asked her to be my maid of honor. She's young and doesn't understand a lot of the MOH duties...

I am helping my mom who is hosting my bridal shower with the invites and I had ordered some return address labels in excess for my official wedding invites can I give them to her to use on the shower...

My fiance has a huge family, in order to avoid a 400 person wedding we want to do a destination wedding. (I've also always dreamed of getting married in the Cayman Islands). Problem is, my future...

Hello! My FH and I are doing siblings + spouses only (not friends) in our wedding party. I am looking for suggestions/feedback/advice on how you would or have asked other couples to be in your wedding...

Hi everyone, I really need advice. I had 4 girls in my bridal party including a MOH. They were so excited and happy to accept. I asked them around August of last year. (2018) anyways I created a group...

My ceremony is 5 mins from my reception but two different towns. After reading another post everyone said to put the ceremony location on the save the dates. Does this still hold true if the reception...

Hi all! For those of you doing letters to your future spouse, are you doing a card? Stationary paper? or a vow book of some sort? I want to be able to keep them forever, but just curious how others...