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Posting Time: 07 Nov 2005 at 3:35PM
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Modern Wedding Etiquette
Carolyn Humphires
Foulsham
£4.99
Part of the Foulsham 'Essentials' series, Modern Wedding Etiquette is designed to help you through your big day by explaining what has to be done, and who needs to do it. There is a combination of legal formalities and etiquette that need to be addressed.
The book starts by looking at the legal aspects of marriage. The first question it addresses is 'can you legally marry?'. Are you old enough to marry?, are you legally free to marry? who can you marry? Most of this is fairly obvious, but there are differences throughout the UK with things like parental consent laws so it is good to check! Pretty quickly though we get into more unusual situations, such as can you marry your brother-in-law or father-in-law. The book goes on to explain the documentation required and tells you who can perform the wedding and explores religious, civil, and weddings abroad.
This all gets quite involved, but the mood is lightened by little tips and bits of interesting information. Did you know, for example, that Chinese couples marry on the half-hour and not the hour? This is so they begin life together on 'the up' and not when the hands of the clock are moving down.
The next section moves on to the 'leading players and their roles', such as 'someone to give the bride away', the best man, flower girls etc. The duties for each person are clearly laid out. The book talks about what each person needs to do in preparation for the wedding, on the day of the wedding and in some cases after the wedding.
Flowers, cakes, invites etc are all discussed and there are good suggestions and tips to help with the planning. These subjects are not covered in depth, but there is enough information to get the ball rolling. The key here is information, who stands where at the ceremony?, who sits where at the reception? - all these points are addressed and a variety of different wedding types (ie different faiths, civil weddings) are discussed.
As usual with the Foulsham books, by the end of it you feel like you know what you are doing and what you need to do to progress. Not exactly page turning stuff, but it isn't meant to be - they are here to inform and they do it very well.
Buy this book
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kerrichinchilla
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Posting Time: 03 Dec 2005 at 11:09PM
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this book has everything including traditions and superstitions that you might already know or ones you didnt know about ( i thought i knew them all but i was wrong), the book also explains where the traditions originate.
the book is imformative there are helpful icons such as sm9iley faces which represent certain topics such as scissors which mean cost cutting ideas.
the book has all the legalities for all the different weddings such as civil ceremonies or religious weddings (to date).
there are useful addresses at the back of the book such addresses for civil ceremonies information and relious sociteties.
there are also topics for after the wedding too, such as what documents you may need to change if you change your name.
this book also explains all the leading roles even the flower girls.
in general this book is good but is meant for reference not reading page for page it can get really boring if you do this.
the book can also is a bit mixed you you have to keep going back and forth to read on a topic.
all in all i give this book 7/10
on the good side its easy to take with you anywhere.
it is also very informative.
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evie
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Posting Time: 09 Dec 2005 at 6:46PM
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The thing I really liked about this book was that it has lots of snippets of information and bullet points which I thought made for easy reference.
It set out the roles of each main person involved in the wedding, such as chief bridesmaid, best man and family members etc, and gave some useful hints and tips on how to keep tings under control and dealing with people who have their own ideas!
I would have liked to have had this before I got married - it gives you some good information about how to go about starting the planning which can be daunting for anyone doing it the first time. It gives good detail about the types of ceremonies available and how to go about organising the one you want.
It gives good details as well about the reception, seating plans etc (although I don't envy anyone having to do that!).
All in all I think this is a really informative little book - maybe in some areas it gives a little TOO much information which would be more suited for a big formal wedding as opposed to a smaller one. The size makes it perfect for sticking in your handbag and taking out with you as well! I would give it an 8/10. 
[Yeah, but, no, but..]
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clairelm
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Posting Time: 03 Dec 2006 at 11:52AM
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Is there a modern etiquette for including a father and step-father in a ceremony?
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