Discussions from Etiquette and Advice

What's your opinion/ your experiences with open seating at the reception. I would like to do the reception cafeteria style where everyone picks their own seat except parents and wedding party (I would...

I totally get guest list bloat; but wonder how you would take some of the following situations that I’ve personally seen at different weddings: 1) 1st cousins invited; except an Aunt’s future Stepson...

How many of you had a groomswoman in your bridal party? Or what about a Man of honor? or Brides"man". We have a female friend who was friends with my FH first, and she is being adamant that she wants...

As an aspiring teacher, you'd think I would be more empathetic about folks not being able to take time off during work to travel. We sent out STDs 8 months in advance. Some people already had plans...

***UPDATE ON PAGE 2*** Hi all. I've mentioned this as a side question in my other post, but I'm still not certain of the answer: Our ceremony will be starting at 6:30pm, but at 6pm our venue will...

I am having my wedding ceremony & reception on an estate that is set up ballroom style inside. My wedding will be at 5 pm on a Friday & I've had my FMIL & my mother telling me that it might be better...

We're having our wedding at an all-inclusive venue-- the rehearsal dinner, ceremony, cocktail hour, reception, and cabins for the night before and night of are all included in the package we chose. My...

So me and my fiance are figuring that we probably cannot afford a big reception (as in at an actual venue with catering/DJ/open bars/etc). We both work part time jobs and already have bills to pay as...

My fiancés cousin, her bf and their two kids (both under the age of 3) are all invited to our wedding, question do their kids get their own escort cards? Or do I just put their names onto their...

I've only attended a few weddings and they were years ago, does there have to be some type of unity ceremony within in the wedding ceremony? That sounds really weird, lol but I hope someone has advice...

My FH has 3 amazing kids whom have became a hug part of my life over the years we have been together. we also have a daughter together and we wanted to make the kids feel important on our wedding day....

Is anyone else doing this??? This seems like a lot for one weekend.

How do I invite SOs? As in, do they get a separate invite or do they get invited together? Married couples obviously get one invitation, and I assume engaged couples do, but what about dating couples?...

I have gone back and forth on this for a while, and I think I've finally decided that I'm not going to be changing my last name after the wedding... but with that said, at the end of the ceremony, and...

I CANNOT WAIT TO GIVE MY BMs THEIR GIFTS!!!!! I made minor changes to each girls gift since it's my best friend, stepsister and ten year old little sister. I got them each a cute headband with cat...

I lost my mother when i was in high school and am already planning on saving a seat for her at my ceremony which my FH and I will place two white roses on. My FH will obviously dance with his mother...

Hi all! So I just got back from an end-of-year department lunch with some of my fellow teachers in my dept. At lunch I decided not to have a cocktail, for no real reason other than not wanting one....

Hi guys, I know it's a tad early to be thinking about invitations but I'm going to be (hopefully) making them myself so I'm allowing myself a lot of time for revisions and design changes. So far I've...

We are having our wedding and reception at a hotel. Due to check in times and not wanting to have random hours of our guests to do nothing our wedding is set to begin at 5:30 to 6. Cocktail hour and...

Update- so I spoke to the courthouse today. Our marriage license has three parts (officiant copy, original copy and duplicate copy). When we got our license the clerk told us to mail the original and...