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Crane's Wedding Blue Book: The Styles and Etiquette of Announcements, Invitations and Other Correspondences

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From the very beginning of the book, the author has a chip on his shoulder.

Basically, Feinberg works for Crane's Stationery. Okay, fine. However, he almost immediately feels the need to discredit any etiquette maven who has said that you don't need a complete set of obscure, engraved stationery to generate proper correspondence.

However, if there's something wedding-related that you want to do in style, there's a good chance that he'll have an answer for you. Wedding, shower and party invitations; thank-you notes; reaffirmations of vows; etc. If you want to do it with engraved stock, he'll happily give you the proper way to do it. And if you happen to get that stock from Crane's, all the better, right?

Granted, the author is still a stickler for wording conventions and will give you a flat-out "No" on many current standards. Examples abound, and I believe there's a section on how to address certain political figures.

This book could be a handy reference to hand around between couples as more and more of your peers marry. Concise with a good index, the author's execuction, if not his motives, are presented quite smoothly.

I think this book is most useful for it's explanation of how the envelopes for wedding invitations are addressed (i.e. who's name goes first, what do you write on the inner envelope, etc.) I even found out how to address one to an Archdeacon! It also has helpful Q & A sections.

Fabulous resource - Emily Post would be proud!! This was the exact resource I was looking for!

This little book (in size only)is a great help with anything concerned with wedding-related stationery tasks from the engagement onward and even awkward situations like recalling invites when a wedding is cancelled. I used to manage a Hallmark store where we did many, many wedding invitations and I found this book to be invaluable especially when there were brides who wanted to make it up as they went along- one could just refer to the book and bring them back to reality...

I looked back at the original Emily Post for a guide to composing my wedding stationary. I found this book to be the only other resource I consulted, which helped to fill in the details.

This book was all that we needed when we made our invitations. You could probably find the information you need online, but it was nice to see everything complied together and I could reference it easier.