Emily Post's Complete Book of Wedding Etiquette Including Planner: Emily Post's Wedding Planner

by Elizabeth L. Post, Emily Post

Discusses wedding etiquette and wedding planning

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1982

About the author

Elizabeth L. Post (May 7, 1920 – April 24, 2010) was an etiquette writer and the granddaughter-in-law of the etiquette writer Emily Post

Reviews

[Annalise Rome]

Enlightening about *some* of the wedding culture/etiquette of the past. A lot of this was just funny. Emily Post has some opinions lol!

[Tori · Rating 3 out of 5]

Obviously I'm going to enjoy every minute of a book about wedding etiquette, but Elizabeth Post, I'm sorry to say, is no Miss Manners. One of the things that I've always enjoyed about Miss Manners is that her work is very stuffy and mannerly, but in a way that seems possible to apply to my actual life. Post's notes about how you must be sure to tip your friends' servants if you use their house, and her decision to include working brides (who intend not to take the week or three before the wedding off) in her section on unusual situations both left me feeling alienated. She also struck me as really unnecessarily opposed to divorced people (particularly divorced women), which, okay, this book was published a while ago, but it just seems wrongheaded to insist that divorced women have to have a small wedding where they don't wear a veil and wear a color other than white - especially when divorced men apparently don't have their status considered relevant to a subsequent wedding at all.