Miss Manners Guide to a Surprisingly Dignified Wedding

   

Bride and mother of the bride rebel against today s monster weddings and explain how weddings can be charming affordable and excruciatingly correct Today s brides are bombarded with wedding advice that promises perfection but urges achieving it through selfishness It s your wedding and you can do whatever you like greed choosing the presents that guests are directed to buy and showing off This is your chance to show everyone what you re about Couples wishing to resist such pressure see elopement or a slapdash wedding as the only alternatives to a gaudy blowout But none of these choices appealed to a bride who happened to have been brought up by Miss Manners Judith Martin and her newlywed daughter Jacobina explain how to have a dignified ceremony and delightful celebration without succumbing to the now prevalent pattern of the vulgar money draining wedding that exhausts families and exploits friends 6 illustrations

- ISBN13 9780393069143
- Condition NEW
- Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark

Vibiana | 2010/02/10
I ve been reading Miss Manners since 1982 when as a senior in high school I picked up her flagship Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior and was enchanted by her wit style and the great letters and answers format I m also a big fan of Dear Abby and Ann Landers books for the same reason Since then I ve collected all of the Miss Manners books Now it appears Judith Martin is passing the mantle on to her daughter Jacobina whom it appears will be a worthy inheritor However I was disappointed to op...

S C Bain | 2010/02/01
Not only are there rules for staying dignified but tips for avoiding being pushed around by the wedding industry and how to keep everything correct and tasteful on any budget Emphasis is on the new relationship and the couple s relationships with their families and friends George Will s old comment about Miss Manners is still true not only is she a great advice columnist but a great commentator on American social life Additonally her writing is very very funny

Claire Monte Montgomery | 2010/01/21
This review is in response to K P Freborg of Minneapolis who reviewed this book without reading it Well we haven t either but apparently that doesn t disqualify Amazon reviewers from reviewing books so here goes Last week we attended a talk by the Martins at Politics Prose bookstore in Washington DC and were delighted by their charming funny informative tasteful presentation In sharp contradistinction to Freborg s report of the senior Martin s behavior on the Minnesota airwaves her and her daugh...

K P Freborg | 2010/01/19
I want to be clear I did not read this book nor do I have intentions of purchasing it I m from Minneapolis and Miss Manners was a telephone guest of KS 95 one of our local radio stations The DJs interviewing Miss Manners were cordial and asked two general questions before discussing the book directly Miss Manners told the DJs that their questions were trivial and when asked if it was proper manners to trivialize anyone s concerns Miss Manners hung up Her snippy high brow blue blood attitude reek...