Modern Bride Guide to Etiquette: Answers to the Questions Today's Couples Really Ask
- Announcing the engagement
- Wording the invitations
- Sharing wedding expenses
- Choosing attendants
- Determining the guest list
- Selecting everyone's attire
- Organizing the shower and bachelor bash
- Dealing with divorced parents
- Arranging interfaith, intercultural, and interracial weddings
- Planning long distance weddings
- Handling any special situations
- Personalizing the ceremony and reception
- Ensuring that the big day runs smoothly
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Book details
- Author
- Cele Goldsmith Lalli
- Imprint
- Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 244
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Reference › Weddings
Reference › Etiquette - Topics
- wedding etiquette · wedding planning · bridal customs · wedding invitations · engagement announcements · wedding expenses · choosing attendants
- ISBN-13
- 9780471582991 (Paperback)9781620456415 (Hardcover)
About the author
CELE GOLDSMITH LALLI edited Amazing Stories and Fantastic for seven years, from 1958 to 1965, and co-authored Modern Bride Complete Wedding Planner and Modern Bride Guide to Etiquette.
Lalli received a special Hugo Award in 1962 for her editing work on those magazines. During her tenure she published early work by Ursula K. Le Guin, Roger Zelazny, and Thomas M. Disch. She subsequently spent 30 years at Modern Bride, rising to Editor-in-Chief and becoming a nationally recognized authority on weddings.
Lalli was born on April 8, 1933, in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and began her publishing career at Ziff-Davis in 1955. She died on January 14, 2002, in a car accident in Newtown, Connecticut.