Taking the Groom’s Viewpoint…
Etiquette: It’s the Groom’s Wedding, Too, Right?
Posted by Talley Sue Hohlfeld, Etiquette Expert
I just got a note from a reader via our AskMartha e-mail box asking how she can do something special for her groom. (He does sound pretty wonderful, too; he goes out of his way to make her feel special, and to take on her problems as though they were his.) She wrote, “Help me to make this ‘our’ special day, not a day devoted to me alone.”
The bride does get pretty fussed over. She gets the spotlight-grabbing dress; he wears the background-inducing formalwear. In the stereotypical wedding, she makes the grand entrance, while he discreetly enters from the side. Classic toasts include toasts to the bride—but not to the groom.
Etiquette allows women to propose toasts now; that might be my suggestion. Although my husband seems to think I’ve rewarded him for his care and generosity just by marrying him!
She’s got several months of planning–her wedding isn’t until Spring 2010. Got any ideas for her?
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