Discussions from Etiquette and Advice

So in 2 weeks I’m a bridesmaid in my sister in laws wedding. Unfortunately we don’t see eye to eye an certain things and while she’s never openly admitted it, I can tell she’s not a huge fan of me...

I’m going to send my save the dates soon and from my understanding you send one to each household that’s invited. I’m not sure how to send the save the save when I’m excluding a family member- I don’t...

Hey ! I just wasn’t sure if I should be inviting my makeup artist and hair stylist or just expect them to leave after doing me up ? Wasn’t sure what people typically do ? Is it rude if I don’t ?...

My husband and I are invited to a wedding and we’re not sure how to indicate that he may not be able to make it, due to health concerns. He wants to come with, but knows there is a chance his health...

My fiancé has a group of about 9 friends that we planned on inviting to the wedding (save the dates have been sent). Unfortunately, they seem to have cut FH off from their friend group in the past...

So we sent out our StDs on July 11th, and here it is two weeks later and some people still have yet to receive them. The weird thing is, in some cases, we had multiple StDs going to the same address,...

Here's the run down: We sent 79 invites for a total of 100 guests for our wedding on June 23 2022. We followed every bit of etiquette we could! We sent save the dates at the appropriate time, we sent...

We received many gifts from our registry that were sent directly to my house. Many were from people who were invited to the shower but could not attend, so I assumed these are shower gifts. However,...

Hi guys! I am having my brother be my Man of Honor. I also want to give my female cousin an important role but she is not married so can’t be Matron of Honor. I didn’t want a Maid of Honor and a Man...

We had our engagement photos done a month ago. We were told it would take 1-2 weeks max to get our photos back. We still have not gotten them and it’s 2 weeks pay the date we were told we would have...

If you had a college friend that has been in a relationship for over a year now but you have never met their SO, would you give them a plus one to invite him or her? We are working with a tighter...

My nephew is getting married and I was surprised to not receive an invite, and a bit offended. But received an invite to a post-wedding party at my sister’s house with a link to their cash registry....

Last year bc of Covid we had a very small wedding or minimony. This year we are going ahead w the ‘big wedding’ and reception. But what do we call it? Marriage Blessing, Vow Renewal, Wedding Blessing...

My husband and I got married April 9. Our videographer said that we would get our wedding video back in about 4 to 6 weeks on one email. The contract says 6 to 8 weeks with a due date of June 2. There...

Hello Wedding community, I am currently planning a destination wedding in the Cancun, Mexico area with my fiance. He has an obscenely large family, 15 aunts/uncles, and 66 first cousins. We wanted a...

We have children of our own who will be 18, 15, 13, 8 at the time of the wedding. Neither of us have been married. I do not want any other children at our wedding besides ours who are in the wedding....

Are you/did you get thank you gifts for your shower host/hostesses? I didn’t really think about it until now and my first shower is less than 2 weeks away. Each of our moms are graciously throwing us...

Hi everyone! I’m just a few weeks away from our big day and I have finally bought everything for my bridesmaids gifts. I’m gifting them either hair or makeup professionally done, pajamas, slippers, a...

I'm starting to put together our alphabetized list of names for place cards and realized that we have two pairs of guests with the same name (two John Smiths). Neither are jr/sr pairs and I am stumped...