immediate family as well as anyone playing an actuall role in the wedding. If you are having the rehearsal dinner the night before the wedding, it is also traditional and appropriate to invite out-of-town guests. This is a good show of hospitality, and keeps your guests from having to sit around their hotel room or wander around a strange town looking for somewhere to eat/something to do.
Anyone can be invited to the rehearsal dinner. The correct social form use to be just the parents of bride, groom, the bridesmaids, maid of honor, ushers, but now it quite acceptable to have friends at the rehearsal dinner. If you are trying to save money it is a nice gesture to invite the Godparents as 'extras' and leave friends who are not in the wedding party or aunts, uncles out. Just in case you didn't know, the formality years ago for being a Godparent was actually a 'guardian' status. You or your parents chose people whom you or your parents trusted to look after your/their children should something happen to you and your partner or to your parents. Today God parenting has lost the true meaning and is confusing.
It is customary for the Groom to give his Best Man and all his groomsmen gifts. For your Best Man, something a bit more expensive and personal . If you have more groomsmen, something simple like an engraveable money clip is fine. And if you are having a formal wedding with a rehearsal dinner, the Groom's parents or yourself generally pay for that .
Yes. You need to put your wedding money somewhere!
We paid our pastor (who had done our pre-marital counseling as well, which was free because we are both members of his church) after our ceremony. We gave the money and the responsibility to a groomsman with instructions to give it to the pastor after the wedding when it seemed like a calm moment. A friend of mine told me that she paid hers at the rehersal dinner because she did not want him to think they weren't going to pay (as it was an optional honorarium, and not required.) I paid $100, and she paid $250. We're not exactly sure what the appropriate etiquette is. Although my logic was that it was a gift, and was given in thanks for the job he did after all was said and done.
money, lack of intimacy, dinner, snoring, work, doing housework
The traditional wedding dance in the Philippines is the money dance. In the dance, the couples dances with money pinned on them.
The traditional wedding dance in the Philippines is the money dance. In the dance, the couples dances with money pinned on them.
Invite to wedding/wedding anniversaryDear ......You are cordially invited to ....... and ....'s weddingIt is on the ........The bride and groom would prefer money as a gift, rather than presents.Sincerly,....... and .....
20,800 was spent on the royal wedding
money
In the bank