Hair-raising stories abound from all sides: hosts who ignore their guests, ask them to pay for their own food (or simply to deposit money into the couple’s bank account), and who treat the wedding as a kind of show business production clerics who joke throughout the ceremony guests who refuse to reply to invitations, demand to be allowed to bring friends, or accept the invitation and then fail to show up. It’s an invaluable guide to what is truly important at a wedding, what is not important, and what is actually rude.
Miss Manners' Guide to a Surprisingly Dignified Wedding is an updated version of an earlier book on weddings, with her recently-married daughter Jacobina Martin added as co-author. Judith Martin has made it abundantly clear throughout her etiquette career that she finds forks uninteresting (if there are several next to your plate, start with the outside one), and believes that the point of etiquette is to “make people happy, or at least to prevent them from shoving each other.” She is also-as is particularly evident to anyone who has seen her speak-very funny. Many people seem to view Judith Martin, aka Miss Manners, as a snobbish, overly fork-preoccupied type intent on making people follow unnecessary and picky rules.
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