title: Wedding Etiquette Hell: The Bride's Bible to Avoiding Everlasting Damnation
author:  Jeanne Hamilton 
description: Rather than lecture couples about what they should do before, during and after the Big Day, consultant Hamilton (Bridezilla: True Stories from Etiquette Hell) warns them what not to do in this quick, easy guide to modern-day manners. Hamiliton runs through a list of nuptial no-nos, from invitations and bridal showers to receptions and the like. She provides pages of horror stories culled from www.etiquettehell.com, the Web site she started in 1997. Hamilton scoffs, for example, at the bride and groom who tried to solicit sponsors for their wedding in exchange for "signage at the reception venue." She shakes her head at the pair who took their registry "to a new low in greed" when they offered guests chances to pay for specific parts of their honeymoon in Hawaii-the airfare, the housing, the meals and activities. And she reprimands the couple audacious enough to send announcements a full year after the event, telling friends and relatives not invited to the wedding that they can "honor the union" with "contributions to the home purchasing fund." Tacky and rude, these instances of extreme faux pas make for amusing reading. Hamilton's discussion is slightly hampered, however, by occasional fictional asides. Meant to give further insight on the planning process, the fictional conversations between a generic "Brideweena" and etiquette expert "Miss Jeanne" are distracting instead. They add little to the overall project, a book some people-particularly those who revel in others' social blunders-will find infinitely fascinating. <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: _**“Well, it’s just a bit late for regrets, Miss Langford,” Jeremy said.
  “Especially now that the whole town thinks we’re about to be married!”**_
  
  “Look,” she began, angry at the way he was hinting that this was all her
  fault, “I was only trying to spare your aunt. She was just a little confused
  and I didn’t want to make it worse.”  
    
  
  “Well, you’ve made it much worse,” he complained. “Now we’ve got the minister
  planning our wedding. What are you going to do about this situation now?”  
    
  
  Gillian felt tears press against her eyelids. But there was no way she was
  giving in to them—not with _him_ standing there watching.
  
   **Books by Lois Richer**
  
  LOVE INSPIRED  
    
  
   _A Will and a Wedding #8_
  
  * _Faithfully Yours_ #15
  
  * Faith, Hope & Charity
  
   _ **LOIS RICHER**_  
    
  
  credits her love of writing to a childhood spent in a Sunday school where the
  King James Version of the Bible was taught. The majesty and clarity of the
  language in the Old Testament stories allowed her to create pi