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| Miss Manners on Weddings | 
 enlarge | Author: Judith Martin
Publisher: Crown
Category: Book
List Price: $16.00
Buy Used: $1.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0609604317
Dewey Decimal Number: 395.22
EAN: 9780609604311
Publication Date: January 26, 1999
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: ex library The book is clean but may have highlights.
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 Great Read for an etiquette-conscious bride (or anyone else!) June 24, 2008
I love Miss Manners. In fact, I love etiquette books, so if you don't, you probably want a different review---I even read Emily Post's book online at Project Gutenberg. This one was a lot of fun, and my maid of honor borrowed it because I seemed to be enjoying reading it so much.
It's not a book of advice on how to plan your wedding so much as it is practical, down to earth advice on how to continue being the upright, kind, pleasant person that your future spouse and your friends liked before you became a bride. Advice like invite the people you want to have celebrate with you, and then figure out what you can afford to feed them. Cake and punch in the church basement are acceptable if that means you can invite all 300 of your mother's cousins(paraphrased).
Buy or borrow and enjoy!
Surprisingly witty every time January 10, 2008
I bought this book for my father, who is about to be remarried. The lessons of the book are mainly concerned with the weddings of more idealistic, first-time couples with larger weddings in mind, but since my dad used to read "Miss Manner's Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior" to us as kids (for humor more than etiquette), I thought it would be a fun gift. You'll have a good laugh with this book even if you are just planning to attend a wedding, or have ever attended one. As for engaged couples and their parents and other close relatives, this book is a practical guide to keeping your head on your shoulders and creating a beautiful, wonderful wedding without ruining relationships or creating such high expectations that the ensuing marriage is lackluster. Miss Manners states in her introduction that the book is not intended for brides, since they already have enough to worry about, but if you are a bride-to-be and have not yet really entered the fray of wedding planners and bridal showers, and can take some constructive criticism, it wouldn't hurt to check this book out. The question and answer inserts between Miss Manners and her "gentle readers" are particularly illuminating, and Martin (Miss Manners) includes proper invitation examples and other such practical material. Most of all, Miss Manner's wit and sense of etiquette based on human decency rather than petty formal tradition are refreshing and make the even the sterner of her lessons and warnings easy to swallow...if you can stop chuckling.
Glad to see it back in print.... January 28, 2004
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
...because maybe now I can get my much-traveled copy back.If you'd like to get married with some dignity, rather than make an idiot of yourself, this is your guide.
Totally worth it March 14, 2003
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
For those of you who don't want a cookie-cutter experience. All of Miss Manners' advice is good; though you must be brave to take it!You don't need any wedding planning books if you accept the wedding as a solemn ceremony with a party to follow. Miss Manners reminds you of this throughout the book. Weddings are best if most ideas are yours and not bought off a magazine rack.
 Amusing, but you'll still need a complete book on etiquette April 30, 2002
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I adore Miss Manners' witty, dry writing style. There's plenty of that here, along with her decidedly staid opinions -- no response cards, please; don't you ever dare make guests pay for a drink; and no, monkeys aren't welcome at the ceremony.You will certainly learn plenty here (and laugh out loud more than a few times), but this isn't a start-to-finish, hold-your-hand book. I would suggest reading this one for its entertainment value and Miss Manners' solid, irreproachable suggestions. Supplement it with another book such as "The Everything Wedding Etiquette Book" for a more complete primer.
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