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Before the wedding

The bride's family sends invitations to the wedding guests, usually about a month before the wedding. In the past, large numbers of invitations were engraved because it was the highest quality printing technology available at the time; smaller numbers were written by hand. Invitations may be addressed by hand to show the importance and personal meaning of the occasion. Receiving an invitation does not impose any obligation on the invited person beyond promptly informing the hosts about whether the guest will be attending. If the guest is declining the invitation, it is typical to send a note of congratulations.[14]

While giving any gift to the newlywed couple is technically optional, nearly all invited guests who will be attending the wedding will choose to do so. They usually send or deliver wedding gifts to the bride's family home before the wedding day. Those few gifts that are brought to the wedding are not opened at the reception; they are placed on a table at the reception for later delivery to the newlyweds' home.

At the wedding

A color scheme is often selected to match everything from bridesmaids' dresses, flowers, invitations, and decorations.

The bride usually wears a white, off-white, silver, or other very light colored dress, particularly at her first marriage.[15] Brides may choose any color except black, which is strongly deprecated as the color of grief, and therefore being more appropriate to funerals than to weddings.[16]

A wedding ceremony takes place at a church, courthouse, or other location, such as an outdoor venue. The ceremony itself is usually brief, and is primarily dictated by the couple's religious practices. The most common non-religious form is derived from a simple Anglican ceremony in the Book of Common Prayer.

At the wedding reception

The wedding party lines up in a receiving line so that they can greet each guest in turn. Guests introduce themselves to the first person in the receiving line, and are in turn introduced by that person to the next person, and so forth down the line, until they have exchanged brief greetings with each person in the wedding party.

At a longer reception, snacks or a meal are served while the guests and wedding party mingle.

Often the best man and/or maid of honor toast the bride and groom with personal thoughts, stories, and well-wishes; sometimes other guests follow with their own toasts. Champagne or sparkling cider are usually provided for this purpose.

In a symbolic cutting of the wedding cake, the bride and groom jointly hold a cake knife and cut the first pieces of the wedding cake, which they feed to each other. Among some members of the lower classes, the bride and groom may deliberately smear cake on each others' faces at this time, which is considered vulgar elsewhere.[17][18][19]

If dancing is offered, the bride and groom first dance briefly together. Often a further protocol is followed, wherein they dance next with a parent, and then possibly with other members of the wedding party. Special songs are chosen by the bride and groom particularly for a mother son dance and a father daughter dance.[20] After these performances are over, anyone may dance with any willing partner. In some subcultures, a dollar dance expects guests to dance with the bride or the groom, and to give them a small amount of cash during the dance. This practice, as is any suggestion that the guests owe money to the couple, is considered rude in other social groups.[21]

The bride tosses her bouquet over her shoulder to the assembled unmarried women on departing; the woman who catches it, superstition has it, will be the next to marry. In some social groups, the process is repeated for unmarried men with the groom tossing the bride's garter for the same purpose. These practices are falling into less favor in the 21st century.[22]

Rice is sometimes thrown at the newlyweds as they leave the ceremony to symbolize fertility. Some individuals, churches or communities choose birdseed due to a false but widely believed myth that birds eating the rice will burst.[23] Because of the mess that rice and birdseed makes, modern couples often leave in clouds of bubbles.[24]

Wedding gifts

The purpose of inviting guests is to have them witness a couple's marriage ceremony and vows and to share in the bride and groom's joy and celebration. Gifts for the bride and groom are optional, although most guests attempt to give at least a token gift of their best wishes. Some brides and grooms and families feel, contrary to proper etiquette, that, in return for the expense they put into entertaining and feeding their guests, the guests should pay them with similarly expensive gifts or cash.[25]

The couple often registers for gifts at a store well in advance of their wedding. This allows them to create a list of household items, usually including china, silverware and crystalware, and often including linen preferences, pots and pans, and similar items. Registries are intended to make it easy for guests who wish to purchase gifts to feel comfortable that they are purchasing gifts that the newlyweds truly want, and the service is sufficiently profitable that most retailers, from luxury shops to discount stores, offer the opportunity. Registry information should, according to etiquette, be provided only to guests upon direct request, and should never be included in the invitation.[26] Some couples additionally register with services that enable money gifts intended to fund items such as a honeymoon, home purchase or college fund. Some guests find bridal registries inappropriate as they contravene traditional notions behind gifts, such as the belief that all gifts are optional and delightful surprises, that they take away the element of surprise, and that they lead to a type of price-based competition, as the couple knows the costs of each individual item. Traditionally, weddings were considered a personal event and inviting people to the wedding who are known neither to the bride nor groom well enough to be able to choose an appropriate gift was considered inappropriate, and registries would therefore be unnecessary.[27] Whether considered appropriate or not, others believe that weddings are opportunities to extract funds or specific gifts from as many people as possible, and that even an invitation carries an expectation of monetary reward rather than merely congratulations.

Letters of thanks for any gift are traditionally sent promptly after the gift's receipt. Tradition allows wedding gifts to be sent up to a year after the wedding date. Thanks should be sent as soon as possible, preferably within two weeks. Merely receiving an invitation does not require the invited person to give any gift to the couple; the invited person's sole responsibility is to answer the invitation with a note of congratulations.