Printed Weddings

Stage 2 of 4

The wedding

The etiquette, the spend, and the words: what a guest is actually expected to do.

Blank cards, envelopes, a fountain pen and ivory ribbon arranged on a table.

Most wedding-gift anxiety is about not knowing the convention rather than not wanting to give. This is the convention, plainly, with the numbers people actually spend rather than the numbers a gift shop would prefer you spent.

The reading, in order

Buying for the couple themselves?

And after that

The stage that follows this one is the first years: Paper, cotton, leather, wood. Where the year-by-year list comes from and what it asks of you.

Written by Craig Fearn, Printed Weddings.