DEAR MISS MANNERS: As a widow on a fixed income, I’m finding my wedding expenses getting steep. A younger friend of my fiance told him that the woman pays for the wedding. Is that true, even if you’re both older? My fiance is 70 and I’m 66. Neither of us has children.
DEAR MISS MANNERS: As a widow on a fixed income, I’m finding my wedding expenses getting steep. A younger friend of my fiance told him that the woman pays for the wedding.GENTLE READER: If your fiance is using this argument, Miss Manners advises you to make sure that a lawyer ties up your assets before you marry.
She is their youngest daughter, but not the youngest in the family by a long shot: There are actual children under the age of 10 at this table. I am a college graduate and we are getting married this summer.GENTLE READER: No, you just make the children’s table more fun than the adults’ table. When the adults hear the raucous laughter you elicit from the small ones, whom you have cautioned not to tell why, Miss Manners trusts that there will soon be another seating arrangement.