Simple Stunning Wedding Etiquette: Traditions, Answers, and Advice from One of Today's Top Wedding Planners

Simple Stunning Wedding Etiquette: Traditions, Answers, and Advice from One of Today's Top Wedding Planners

by Karen Bussen
Simple Stunning Wedding Etiquette: Traditions, Answers, and Advice from One of Today's Top Wedding Planners

Simple Stunning Wedding Etiquette: Traditions, Answers, and Advice from One of Today's Top Wedding Planners

by Karen Bussen

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Overview

What’s the preferred way of wording your invitation? How should guests at the wedding dinner be seated? What do you say to people who ask to bring their (uninvited) children to the reception—or, scarier still, to your prospective mother-in-law when she picks out the World’s Ugliest Dress to wear on your big day?

Brides-to-be have a lot on their minds, including making sure that everything connected with the wedding is done the “right way.” But nowadays few people are adequately schooled in the do’s and don’ts of proper etiquette—and that’s where Simple Stunning Wedding Etiquette comes to the desperately needed rescue.

This newest volume in Karen Bussen’s Simple Stunning Wedding series—whose four previous books total more than 130,000 copies in print—is the perfect marriage between the timeless and the new. Bussen celebrates the beloved rituals (cake-cutting, toasts) that are well worth preserving, while dispensing with outmoded rites (the garter toss) best left by the wayside. And Bussen’s guide goes beyond other wedding etiquette handbooks by dealing sensitively with the sometimes-fraught issues (divorced parents, second marriages, blending religious traditions) so crucial to contemporary wedding planning.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781584796497
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Publication date: 01/01/2008
Pages: 130
Sales rank: 813,276
Product dimensions: 8.30(w) x 7.32(h) x 0.72(d)
Age Range: 13 - 18 Years

About the Author

KAREN BUSSEN has planned weddings to complement a wide variety of locations, budgets, and tastes, from celebrity-filled events to casual, intimate affairs. She has been featured on Inside Edition and other national and local television programs, and is the cooking and entertaining expert on the Do-It-Yourself Network series Home Made Easy. Bussen lives in New York City.

Table of Contents


Introduction     4
Simple Stunning Solutions: Handling Any Etiquette Situation     7
Rules of Engagement: Sharing the News with Family and Friends     13
Money Matters: Guidelines and Good Advice     21
Guest List and Bridal Party 101: Who, What, When, Wear?     31
Invitation Only: Design, Wording, and All the Details     51
Please and Thank You: Gift Registry, Favors, and Asking for Help     73
Satellite Celebrations: Wedding Showers and Other Festivities     79
The Ceremony: Blending Your Love, Traditions, and Beliefs     85
Party Perfect: Your Reception, from Start to Finish     101
Just Married: Newly-wediquette     113
Wit and Wisdom     118
Resource Guide     120
Acknowledgments     124
Index     125
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