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Wedding bar sign wording, including the cash bar problem
You reach the front of the bar queue and the bartender points at a card taped to the till. Cash only. You brought a card, and there is no ATM in the building. So what goes on a wedding bar sign? Each drink name with its…

Table numbers vs table names: pick the one guests can find
A guest finds her name on the seating chart. Amalfi. She walks the length of the room, past Positano, past Portofino, and stops. Every table here is a coastal town, set in…

Wedding monogram etiquette: whose initial goes first
Your menus read M S J. The napkins you ordered three months later read J S M, and they were final sale. Each proof looked right on its own. Side by side on the same table,…

What name to put on a personalized wedding gift
You order the ceramic dish with her new married surname on it, hand lettered in gold. She decided months ago that she was keeping her own. She opens it at the shower with…