There's already a theme, and it's marriage. Norton & Co., 320 pages), written with her daughter, newlywed Jacobina Martin, tries to get couples back to the basics, stressing that a meaningful wedding need not be an over-the-top menagerie, put anyone in debt or require a theme. "Miss Manners' Guide to a Surprisingly Dignified Wedding," (W.W. So it should surprise no one that she has taken the white gloves off and come out swinging. Spurred by wedding planners, she maintains, they act as if their nuptials are not an intimate personal ceremony but a show in which they are the stars, in which no one's interests but their own are to be considered and whose tab should be footed by parents and guests alike. But little has appalled her more than the increasingly selfish conduct of brides- and grooms-to-be. Miss Manners, has watched social mores loosen and public behavior slide. Miss Manners takes wedding planners to task.įor 32 years, etiquette expert Judith Martin, a.k.a.
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