Everyone will probably have questions about wedding etiquette for guests at some point in life. If you’ve been invited to a wedding this season, you may be wondering what your role should be. When do you RSVP, what do wedding attire is appropriate, how should you behave? We have all those answers here. Your first [...]
Divorced Wedding Etiquette Is A Little Different Than First Time Wedding Etiquette
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If you have been previously married and are ready to jump back into married life for a second time, you will want to be aware of divorced wedding etiquette so that you don’t make any glaring mistakes. The engagement is the first point to contend with in divorce wedding etiquette. If you have children, it [...]
Sending wedding invitation etiquette
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You have just become engaged and have made all the rounds of announcements of the wonderful event. Now that things have settled, you and your future husband have finally picked a date. The next thing to do is shop for the perfect invitation. Sending wedding invitation etiquettes guides you to get this in the mail [...]
Addressing The Envelopes Of A Wedding Invitations
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There are several different etiquette rules for addressing the inner envelope of the wedding invitation, as well as the outer envelope, depending on to whom you are sending the invitation. The outer envelope is always more formal than the inner envelope, using the full name and title of the addressee(s). Given the usual formality of [...]
Wedding Announcement Etiquette
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What are you to do if the cute little chapel that you want to use for your wedding can’t accommodate a large crowd? What if you want a destination wedding, but it’s too far or too expensive for most people to attend? Do you invite them anyway and just not expect much? No, you send [...]
Wedding Etiquette For Lighting Honor Candles
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Having become quite popular in recent years, the unity candle can present some sticky questions. What is the proper wedding etiquette for lighting honor candles for the family? What if one parent is deceased therefore not there to participate in the candle lighting ceremony? Let’s start with the typical candle lighting tradition. If you are [...]
How Does Wedding Invitation Etiquette Handle The Deceased Parents Of The Groom?
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There is a traditional format for the first item that your guests will ever see, your wedding invitation. With so many families fitting into categories other than the traditional mom, dad, and kids. There have been adjustments made to wedding invitation etiquette to accommodate deceased parents, divorced parents, both sets of parents as hosts, and [...]
Wedding Etiquette For Sending Invitation Cards A Week Before The Wedding
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When you receive a wedding invitation card in the mail, it is proper etiquette to mail the response care promptly. What happens if you realize a week to the wedding that you have never sent in the response card? Yes, this is a major etiquette faux pas, but you can save yourself before you look [...]
Wedding Etiquette Writing Thank You Notes
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It may seem like you just finished addressing all the wedding invitations, and now you have to start in on thank you notes. Where is the time going? Don’t worry. With the following wedding etiquette for thank you notes, you’ll have them finished in no time at all. With showers and parties and gifts arriving [...]
What Is Proper Etiquette For A Deceased Grandmother’s Wedding Ring?
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There is not hard and fast etiquette dealing with a deceased grandmother’s wedding ring. In the ideal situation, the grandmother has left a will stating who should inherit which pieces of jewelry including her wedding/engagement ring set. Many times, however, there is no will and the family is left to decide how to divide personal [...]