Emily Post’s Wedding Parties is a handy guide for anyone involved in planning or attending a wedding celebration. Want to know how to give a toast? Hire a caterer? Pick invitations? Decide when to have an engagement party, shower, or rehearsal dinner? Anna Post answers all these questions and more in Emily Post’s Wedding Parties.
Weddings are more than just the big day—the parties start months in advance and often continue after the wedding. In Part 1, It’s a Party!, Anna looks at each celebration from a traditional perspective and explores trends in wedding parties and entertaining styles. You’ll find advice on all types of wedding parties, including: Engagement parties, showers, bachelor(ette) parties, rehearsal dinners, receptions, post-wedding parties and belated receptions.
Part 2, Party Smarts, provides detailed information on the “how-to’s” of party planning to help hosts plan and execute pre- and post-wedding gatherings with confidence. Anna simplifies even the most complicated wedding arrangements by breaking them down into manageable pieces.
Planning For Success – covers the basics for planning a wedding, everything from how to budget your time and money to making sure guests have a place to park their cars.
Food, Flowers, and Other Fun Stuff – tackles the subjects of arranging the food, flowers, music, and photography, and whether to hire a professional or to do it yourself.
Reading the Fine Print – is all about invitations, from what goes in them to who receives them.
All About Party Gifts – answers all the questions about whether to bring a gift, what kind of gift to bring, and how to say thank you afterward.
It Takes Two – outlines the proper etiquette for both host and guest.
Cheers! – is a basic how-to on making toasts.
Most important of all, Emily Post’s Wedding Parties shows you how to apply the three principles of etiquette—respect, honesty, and consideration—to guide and shape the planning process in a gracious, constructive way, using tact and common sense.
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