Miss Manners on Painfully Proper Weddings

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Summary: If you're getting married, buy this book!
Review: Even the most level headed among us find that when planning a wedding we start to get carried away with details, excess and more, more, more. Miss Manners provides a wonderful reminder of what is really important, where to focus your emotional energies, and how to handle the mini-crises that seem, at the time, to threaten your happy day. Read this book when you are getting overwhelmed and you will find that her philosophy doesn't just help you make some decisions, but helps you refocus on the important aspects of the day. With her sage advice my wedding was memorable and enjoyable!

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Summary: Disappointing; not at all comprehensive
Review: I love Miss Manners but I was very disappointed by this book -- she's as funny as always but it's not terribly useful for planning a wedding unless you happen to have one of the specific questions asked in the book. It's not at all comprehensive, and many of the questions -- while hilarious -- don't seem like they would come up very often. Not a nuts-and-bolts basic etiquette book

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Summary: Sanity in a slim volume
Review: In her signature acerbic style, Miss Manners offers suggestions for wedding etiquette that will be entertaining and useful for anyone planning, or enduring, a wedding. She disparages such popular myths as My Perfect Day and required registries and gives the engaged couple and their families a guide for having a charming, meaningful wedding without exhausting themselves or treading on too many toes in the process. Reading this book should be a prerequisite for getting engaged.

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Summary: Humorous and informative
Review: In her signature acerbic style, Miss Manners offers suggestions for wedding etiquette that will be entertaining and useful for anyone planning, or enduring, a wedding. She disparages such popular myths as My Perfect Day and required registries and gives the engaged couple and their families a guide for having a charming, meaningful wedding without exhausting themselves or treading on too many toes in the process. Reading this book should be a prerequisite for getting engaged.

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Summary: Sanity in a slim volume
Review: Love, love, LOVE this book and Miss Manners! Lots of the basic questions that came up in planning my wedding were covered, but more important is the philosophy she espouses. After you read this book you will find it hard to flip through all those bridal magazines without rolling your eyes at the fuss they make over trivial topics. Miss Manners reminds you what's truly important. We had a lovely wedding that was universally described as "perfect" and no stress whatsoever in planning it. I give this book to all my friends as soon as they get engaged.

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Summary: sweet relief...
Review: Perhaps the readers who found this book dissatisfying were hoping for something Miss Manners has always graciously declined to provide: useless, impersonal advice. I, for one, am always turning back to this book for respite when the stern advice regarding the proper use of the best man's teeth on the Happiest Day of Your Life offered by the other wedding books threatens to drive me to yet another level of bridal madness. It is all too easy to be seduced by the vast sea of publications devoted to nitpicky suggestions and artificial "traditions" -- nearly all, if you haven't noticed, not-so-subtly designed to convince nearly-weds to indulge consumerism to yet another level and further distract themselves from the real project at hand (I do hope I don't need to remind anyone of the real reason for all of this mess). Thank god Judith Martin is here to cut the bull and talk some sense into everyone involved.

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Summary: The only must-have wedding etiquette book.
Review: We had a LOT of family problems around our wedding. I didn't think Miss Manners could cover every single situation, but she did. We followed almost all her advice and like magic, all our evil relatives and troublesome friends fell into line. Worth more than all other wedding books together.