This is great advice to keep in mind as you begin planning your wedding!
Miss Manners' top 5 gentle wedding reminders
1. When you had that childhood wedding fantasy, you were a child. If you don't have better taste and a greater sense of social and fiscal responsibility now, you're too immature to get married.
2. People are more important than menus. Figure out first whom you want to have there, and then what you can afford to serve them, not the other way around.
3. A phrase you will be happier if you forget: "the perfect wedding." Perfection does not exist this side of heaven, especially when it involves complicated arrangements and all kinds of other people, and you'll drive yourself and others crazy if you think you can achieve it.
4. Another phrase you will be happier forgetting: "It's your day." The joining of two people involves two (or more) families and other relatives and friends, and you ignore their feelings and comfort at your peril.
5. Your guests are not your personal shoppers.
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