Features:

• Three new chapters offering advice on the latest realities of today's weddings
• Multicultural ceremonies, encore weddings, and postwedding duties
• Expanded sections give guidance on financial matters, working smoothly with wedding consultants and others on your "wedding team"
• Planning theme and destination weddings
• Charts on everything from most-asked questions to creative ideas for personalizing your wedding

Peggy Post, America's etiquette authority, presents an indispensable, comprehensive guide to planning and personalizing your wedding. Today's weddings are more complex than ever before, with new traditions and new family relationships to consider.

This thoroughly revised fourth edition of the classic Emily Post's Wedding Etiquette addresses countless wedding questions both old and new. Peggy Post shows how to handle the big decisions and the little details that will make your wedding beautiful to behold and uniquely yours and how to carry it off with minimum stress and maximum style.

With this book in hand, a couple can confidently blend the best of classic tradition with contemporary style, making this wondrous event a celebration to be remembered and treasured by all.

Contents

1. Engagement Etiquette
2. The Big Decisions
3. Expenses and Legalities
4. Attendants
5. Family, Friends, and a Carefully Planned Guest List
6. Invitation Etiquette
7. Gifts of Love
8. Wedding Celebrations
9. Planning the Ceremony
10. Multicultural Weddings
11. Encore Weddings
12. Wedding Attire
13. Planning the Reception
14. Wedding Attire
15. Planning the Reception
16. Flowers for Your Wedding
17. Music
18. Photography and Videography
19. The Wedding Cake
20. At The Ceremony
21. At The Reception
22. After the Wedding: From This Day Forward

Index

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