We thought you would enjoy reading this great guest post from Amy about cool gifts for the groom. Remember to share photos with your groom  — and the rest of your guests — by using one online photo album.   It can be slightly tough to go gift… Read more

You may have received a gift bag when checking into a hotel for a wedding… What’s the scoop with that? What is it? Some people like to have gift bags that the hotel will give to each guest as he or she checks in to the hotel. It’s a nice… Read more

While wedding planning can be a little stressful, one part that my fiance has been looking forward to is starting the wedding registry.  Now, readers may be aware that we’ve decided to do both a traditional registry as well as a honeymoon registry,… Read more

The tradition of presenting gifts made of a certain material is thought to be based on an old Germanic tradition that goes as far back as the Middle Ages. “The practice of giving peculiar gifts on various wedding anniversaries originated in… Read more

The last blog post I wrote was all about how to plan your wedding — from moment of engagement until the final steps. What I didn’t include were things to know for the day of and miscellaneous things that come up whilst planning your wedding. That’s… Read more

     I am getting married later this year, but we’re already getting some of the gifts we registered for! Should we send thank you notes now, or wait until after the wedding? Good question! First of all, thank YOU for writing thank you… Read more

After doing the poll the other day about whether you will exchange gifts, I decided to look into the tradition myself. Do we have to exchange gifts? It turns out, gift exchange on the day of your wedding is not a required tradition; it’s… Read more

I was talking with a friend about a recent prominent political figure who had to return some gifts that were given to her and her husband. And the question came up: what do you do if you have to return or exchange a wedding gift? Here are… Read more

Despite all of the blog posts on gift giving and gift etiquette that I have written, I just received word that I never explained the best way to ask for these gifts! So here’s the scoop. The old tradition is not to put the registry information in… Read more

Because I’ve written so much about gifts and gift-related things, I thought it might be nice to put it all in one nice little blog post for easy access! AND if you, dear readers, have questions I didn’t cover, ask me!… Read more