I’ve had The Pocket Idiot’s Guide To Wedding Etiquette sitting in my review pile for several months now. I figured since I’m writing about weddings here at Our One Heart, now I really need to get the review done!

The Guide is a small pocket size book that you can keep with your wedding planner and carry along with you for reference when you’re planning your wedding. Then when your mom or mother in law tell you what the proper etiquette is, you can give it a quick look up if you’re just not sure.
The book answers all your wedding etiquette …read more

When my sister got married two years ago, she gave her husband-to-be a wedding gift. I thought it was weird at first as my Husband and I didn’t really do that at our own wedding until I shared this concept with my friends and they told me that they have exchanged wedding gifts with their husband-to-be. Most of them bought each other matching his and hers wrist watches.
If you are unsure about this, there is no known practice to do this so really, it is up to you if you want to give your spouse-to-be a present on your wedding …read more

In February of this year, I raised a question on what you’d do if the wedding was cancelled. Would you return the gifts or not. I received several feedback on this question and one of them was from an anonymous reader. She asks:
I think the gifts should be returned. I personally spent close to $700.00 on a friend’s wedding gifts. When the wedding was called off, the couple sold many of the gifts. They split the remaining gifts and cash. Neither of them are in any financial hardship.
Here is a question from the other side, how do you approach a …read more

If there’s anything that you should not do, it is putting a disclaimer or a note at the bottom of your wedding invitation like this:

“The favor of your gift is declined, only monetary gifts accepted.”

Etiquette Hell reacted this way:
Those words are like waving a red flag in front of a bull. We are compelled to act upon those words in ways the bride and groom never envisioned or intended. You want money as a gift? We’ll give you money…our way. Yes, we might give money….in a foreign denomination forcing the recipient to expend time and energy …read more