New Trends in Wedding Etiquette in the 21st Century
Personalized weddings – Today’s marriage ceremonies tend to fit more to the couples’ individual tastes with expressions of their interests.
Sharing the costs –even sometimes asking the grooms parents to help share in the expenses
High Tech Wedding Planning –for a couple to set up their own website with information about them, the details of the wedding, gift registry info, directions, places to stay,and so on,has become popular. Guests can even reply and order their gifts online.
Second Weddings – Nearly 45% of all marriages are for the second time around at least for one of the marrying couple. These weddings are usually more informal and even include children in the wedding party. They at least are invited to attend both the wedding and reception.
Involved Grooms –grooms are getting more involved with wedding planning and helping to share financially and even in writing thank you notes.
Different religious traditions being celebrated –these days more and more interfaith marriages in which clergy or officiants of each are in attendance and share taking part in the ceremony.
Including parents –in recent years mothers as well as fathers or both escorting the bride down the isle.
Honor Attendants - for a special male friend to stand up with the bride in the maid-of-honor position as her “honor attendant.” The same holds true for a groom to have a special female friend stand next to him as his “honor attendant.” And they are referred to as “Man of honor” and “Best woman” respectively.
More wedding attire choices –Nowadays, anything seems to go giving a bride full freedom to express herself. For wedding dresses that can be just about anything she desires giving her full freedom to express herself and her heritage if she likes. Attendants attire can be selected with the consideration of future use. Black is no longer “out” for attendants or guests and white is “in” for anyone.
Variations in color –Not just white as colors abound wedding detailes – in fact, the more the merrier.
Destination Weddings –These days, weddings can take place anywhere in the word under the heading of “destination wedding.” Usually these are followed by a reception celebration at a later date.
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