Discussions from Etiquette and Advice

My fiancé and I are planning a small 50 person wedding about 2.5 hours from home in October 2023. We plan on renting a large house from the day before the wedding (Thursday) through Sunday with our...

I’ve posted previously about how the bridal shop I purchased my dress from ruined my dress right before my wedding. Literally right before. (24 hours to try and get it fixed..? LOL). Everyone on here...

I previously asked if I should be sending invitations when I receive registry gifts to my home right away or after the shower (I am sending them when I receive the gift) Now my mom is saying I need to...

It’s been over a week since I dropped off my invitations at the Post Office to be hand cancelled and no one in my family has received them yet. I live in a small town and the lady seemed pretty...

My sister got engaged in November of 2021. She planned her wedding date for end of October of 2023. I was planning on proposing because we need to buy a house and can do one more lease where we can...

Okay so we're having a wedding 5 hours from where we live. No one we know lives there so everyone is going to have to drive 5 hours/ fly to our ceremony as we have family that lives farther away. I...

Let me start by saying that I don't expect gifts for my birthday as an adult, except from H We were invited to a self hosted, 29th birthday at the couples home this weekend. It was a FB invite, very...

My bridal shower is at the end of this month, and people have started purchasing gifts off the registry. So far two people have opted to have the gifts sent directly to our house, and I’m wondering on...

My DJ told me the deposit amount and I almost fell out of my chair! The deposit is more than 50% of the total cost! I'm getting a good deal of a DJ for 475$ for four hours but a 300$...

My Bridesmaid scheduled her wedding 3 weeks before mine. She asked me if it was "okay". I firmly believe that I had no right/say in her decision. She wanted validation so I gave it to her, but I think...

My FW and I recently got engaged, and I'm so excited and eager to ask my girls to be my bridesmaids! I know the general rule is to wait about a year before the wedding, but when is a good time when...

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,...