Discussions from Etiquette and Advice

If you are giving gifts to wedding party/parents at the RD, are people opening them there in front of everyone? Or will they open them when they get home? Just trying to envision how it's typically...

Hey All, My wife and I got married in 2020 (registry office) but only had our “wedding” 3 weeks ago following 3 x Covid restriction related postponements. We had a great day, and it all went very...

My MOH and I have been best friends for over 10 years!!! At the beginning she was very excited!!! Now we are less than 3 months to the wedding. She doesn't answer my calls, reads my messages and...

Is anyone else having a 5pm ceremony? I need timeline help!

Out of curiosity, I have heard the term used as a "rule" for the value of a gift. How exactly would that work (not planning to implement but just understand) when the couple is not giving guests a...

I’m really hurt and don’t know what to do/ how to feel right now. Over the last couple years my fiancés step sister and I have gotten very close. I decided to include her in my wedding party to...

Hi, I’m needing some advice! I’m working on our guest count and I’m wondering what y’all did with your guests and their plus 1. I have a lot of married friends but I don’t know their husbands and I...

Do you have any suggestions on how to make amends with MOB who was not physically present for dress shopping and is refusing to attend the dress reveal party?

Now before you bite my head off, I'm not hosting my own shower but would like to know why its considered wrong/rude/inappropriate for a bride to host her own shower. What if the bride doesn't have...

My wedding is very small (30 total in attendance) and the wedding party only consists of the best man, maid of honor and my FH and I. We are not having a rehearsal dinner because there really is no...

I was not aware of this being a thing, but I just came across something talking about how much you should spend on gifts for your parents and was like.....oh crap, is that something we should be doing...

Hello all!! I hope you all are doing well! So recently my wife and I were married on January 6th, 2020. We got married two months after being engaged because I’m enlisting into the Air Force and if...

What do you feel is the best wording to express that your reception is formal? We're having our ceremony and reception at the same venue, a yacht club at the Jersey Shore, on a Friday night in June. I...

Hello! I am new to the whole wedding world and etiquette and such. My fiancé and I downsized our wedding a bit (no invitations or anything have been sent yet) but we’re doing a small intimate wedding...

My fiance and I are totally different people. I am an extrovert and he is an introvert. We met on a Hawaiian cruise and since our first week of dating, we dreamed of revisiting the islands to marry in...

Has anyone ever had a guest continually flip flop with their rsvp to your wedding? My cousin texted me last week to give her rsvp to my wedding in June, and was leaving the kids at home. Yesterday,...

I have asked my sisters and my two best friends to be my bridesmaids for my wedding next year. All four girls mean a lot to me so it was an easy decision to make them my bridesmaids. So far, my...

Hi all! My recent fiance expressed interest in wearing a rub we band until we get married and it's replaced with his wedding band. I also want to wear a rubber band for when I go to the gym or sleep....

Hi all, I'm MOH for a friend's wedding and I'm starting to get frustrated with the lack of communication and support from the bride. There are 13 bridesmaids and most of us live out of state. So...

I am getting married next Saturday and have obviously been putting off this task because I just don't know how to handle it! I am having a destination wedding and therefore, do not know the officiant...