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Miss Manners' Guide to a Surprisingly Dignified Wedding
Jacobina Martin
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Description for Miss Manners' Guide to a Surprisingly Dignified Wedding
Hardback. Bride and mother-of-the-bride rebel against today's monster weddings and explain how weddings can be charming, affordable-and excruciatingly correct. Num Pages: 320 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: WJW; WJX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 165 x 30. Weight in Grams: 596.
Today’s brides are bombarded with wedding advice that promises perfection but urges achieving it through selfishness (“It’s your wedding, and you can do whatever you like”), greed (choosing the presents that guests are directed to buy), and showing off (“This is your chance to show everyone what you’re about”). Couples wishing to resist such pressure see elopement or a slapdash wedding as the only alternatives to a gaudy blowout. But none of these choices appealed to a bride who happened to have been brought up by Miss Manners. Judith Martin and her newlywed daughter, Jacobina, explain how to have a ... Read more
Today’s brides are bombarded with wedding advice that promises perfection but urges achieving it through selfishness (“It’s your wedding, and you can do whatever you like”), greed (choosing the presents that guests are directed to buy), and showing off (“This is your chance to show everyone what you’re about”). Couples wishing to resist such pressure see elopement or a slapdash wedding as the only alternatives to a gaudy blowout. But none of these choices appealed to a bride who happened to have been brought up by Miss Manners. Judith Martin and her newlywed daughter, Jacobina, explain how to have a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393069143
SKU
V9780393069143
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About Jacobina Martin
Jacobina Martin teaches improvisational comedy at Chicago’s Second City and just married Ronald Kroll. Judith Martin, born a perfect lady in an imperfect society, is the author of the “Miss Manners” columns and best-selling books, two novels, and a travel book on Venice. She and her husband live in Washington, DC.
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