Simple Stunning Wedding Etiquette

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Whats 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 receptionor, scarier still, to your prospective mother-in-law when she picks out the Worlds Ugliest Dress to wear on your big dayBrides-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 dos and donts of proper etiquetteand thats where Simple Stunning Wedding Etiquette comes to the desperately needed rescue.This newest volume in Karen Bussens Simple Stunning Wedding serieswhose four previous books total more than 130,000 copies in printis 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 Bussens 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.

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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 she is the cooking and entertaining expert on the Do-It-Yourself Network series, "Home Made Easy."