Wedding Etiquette Hell: The Bride's Bible to Avoiding Everlasting Damnation by Jeanne Hamilton
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- Pub. Date: June 2005
- 240pp
- Sales Rank: 453,378
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: June 2005
- Publisher: St. Martin's Press
- Format: Paperback, 240pp
- Sales Rank: 453,378
- ISBN-13: 9780312330231
- ISBN: 0312330235
Synopsis
Covering such wedding staples as attendants, invitations, registries, showers, the ceremony, the reception, and thank yous, Etiquette guru Jeanne Hamilton will give numerous examples of bad etiquette that should be avoided at all costs, such as:
-No bride owns the calendar. Insisting that everyone within your acquaintance had not dare schedule their wedding anywhere within a six month time period labels you as a classic Bridezilla.
-Sponsored wedding, at which vendors who donate their services are offered the opportunity to put their logos on various wedding related paper products.
-It is never wise to make bridesmaid offers while in the grip of fluttery, just-engaged emotions. You may have to rescind those offers later when you realize you were just a bit too hasty. Once having made the offer, it is extraordinarily ungracious to rescind it, unless you want a seething friend or sister using your engagement photo as a dartboard.
-Enclosing a blank deposit form for a bank account bearing the names of the bride and the groom with the invitation.
And much more! This is a hilarious exploration of how weddings can literally drive people mad.
Library Journal
Hamilton, a wedding consultant and creator of EtiquetteHell.com, lays out basic etiquette rules in chapters arranged by topic (e.g., attendants, invitations, and showers) and then illustrates them with hilarious, real-life stories that drive the points home. Throughout, sidebars further illustrate points via a humorous dialog between fictional Brideweena and Miss Jeanne, her wedding consultant. Although the chapter format does not facilitate quick reference, the text is fun to browse, and the memorable stories offer excellent etiquette instruction. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
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JEANNE HAMILTON is a wedding consultant and the creator of EtiquetteHell.com, which has been featured in prominent publications like USA Today, People, and Wall Street Journal. She lives in Oxford, North Carolina.
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Wedding Etiquette Hell: The Bride's Bible to Avoiding Everlasting Damnationby Anonymous
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June 12, 2005: As a longtime fan of the EtiquetteHell web site, I bought the book with high expectations and wasn't disappointed. The book is not intended to be a definitive work on etiquette but rather focuses on the most commonly committed mistakes and faux pas brides are likely to commit during their wedding planning. Eschewing stuffy etiquette that serves no other purpose than to separate the snooty from the etiquette challenged, Hamilton zeros in on the wedding etiquette faux pas that will most likely damage relationships with witty humor that had me laughing out loud on occasion. The book repeatedly emphasizes the theme that a perfect wedding day should never come at the expense of hurting the people dearest to us. The one thing that does separate this book from other wedding etiquette books is the emphasis on the bride's civility during the most trying of situations. Rather than succumbing to a well justified urge to scream and get slap happy at lazy bridesmaids or annoying mothers of the groom, Hamilton encourages restraint for the sake of the bride's dignity. Civility doesn't mean being a doormat, however and the book offers encouragement to choose the higher road. The book gives examples of civil responses to a few awkward situations. While I?d like to have seen more examples of situational civility, the reader is not left wondering what it looks like.
Wedding Etiquette Hell: The Bride's Bible to Avoiding Everlasting Damnationby Anonymous
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June 07, 2005: I visit the website and forum that the author runs, so I thought I'd really enjoy this book. I didn't. The way she writes, it sounds like the book was written by my stuffy aunt. It didn't help me plan a modern wedding at all.
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