Miss Manners' Guide to a Surprisingly Dignified Wedding

by Judith Martin and Jacobina Martin

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393069141
• ISBN13: 9780393069143
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

One of her best!

This 2010 book is an updating and revision of an earlier 1995 book on weddings, and emerges as one of Miss Manners' best. Together with her daughter Jacobina Martin, Judith Martin has steered us through the shoals of bad behavior into the 21st Century, tackling such topics as no-show guests, mercenary bridal parties and their grabby gift registries, and the challenges of excessive e-mail. Anyone planning a wedding would benefit from this volume, as would all those who appreciate the authors' legendary wit.