Weddings A Family Affair: The New Etiquette for Second Marriages and Couples with Divorced Parents
WEDDINGS A FAMILY AFFAIR presents a fresh approach to the common problems and challenges of plannng a wedding for a complicated family. Just seeing an assortment of options may inspire you to come up with solutions that are uniquely suited for your own circumstance - ways that will help you and your famiy create a special, wonderful wedding day.
GREAT BEGINNINGS
For Couples with Divorced Parents:
Getting Started
Accent the positive
Getting your act together
Avoiding pitfalls
Is anybody grown up?
Degrees of civility
Stepping stones
Wedding Checklists
Brides
Grooms
Negotiating and Working Together
The common goal
Flexibility
Listening to the problem
Concrete suggestions for the sharing impaired
Announcing the Wedding
Emotions and stepping on toes
Announcements
Elements of style
Parents: Single, joint, or several
Steps to consider
Wedding Expenditures
Who gets to choose?
Only a large wedding will do vs. thinking small
Who contributes what
Inviting Members of the Wedding
Participants
Guest list
Ceremony sponsors and reception hosts
Invitations and dilemma of style (wording)
Portfolio of style examples
Setting the scene
Mothers and fathers
The aisle walk
Floral arrangements and wedding attire
Ceremony seating
Photographing the wedding
Command performances
Rehearsal and rehearsal dinner
Receiving line
Reception and hosting tables
Grace and Arthur's story
HAPPY ENDINGS
For Couples Planning to Remarry:
Encore Weddings
Personal choices
Bridal accessories
Gift-giving
Valuable Considerations
Prenuptial agreements
What's in a name?
Legal affairs
Authorized officiants
Religion and Encore Marriages
Ecclesiastical rulings
Biblical rulings
Faith-based rules and procedures
Family Strings Attached
Discussing your decisions
Young, teen, and adult children
Family stuff
Telling parents and exes
Stepgrandparenting
Announcements and Invitations
Formal and informal nnouncements
Portfolio of examples for encore weddings
The Wedding Day
Ceremony size and type
Members of the wedding party
"Giving Away" the bride
Personalized ceremony
The day we all got married
Reception and honeymoon
Marie and Henry's Story
WEDDINGS A FAMILY AFFAIR is available from the National Stepfamily Resource Center.