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What rules should be present at a wedding, if any? The truth is that as time goes by, wedding etiquette is under major major changes. For the most part, the rules of wedding etiquette are simply vanishing, leaving the bride and the groom with the freedom to do what they want at their wedding.

However, some of the more "traditional" guests at your wedding may be aware of some rules from the past. So, let's review wedding planning etiquette to get armed with knowledge.

For example, wedding etiquette involves a particular order of speeches made by the participants of the wedding, such as the first speech is usually the speech of the bride's father. Nonetheless, currently you may see the mother of the bride speaking first, and so on. This tradition can be traced back to the time when the father of the bride was the one covering all the wedding expenses, but now many couples choose to cover all of their wedding expenses on their own.

There are some etiquette rules on how to inform your guests about your wedding. For example, some wedding guides advise you to write the name of each invitation recipient and sign each invitation by hand. Does everyone still do it? No, many people entrust this task to their computers, especially if there are a couple hundred guests invited to the wedding.

There are not too many things that did not change, and one of them is that the bride and the groom still toss a bouquet and a garter at the single people attending the wedding, just like they did centuries ago.

One interesting and now practically obsoleste wedding tradition was to have the bridesmaids dressed in dresses that are similar to the bride's dress. Also, the bridesmaids usually had to be younger than the bride, and not married. This was supposed to help fool the evil spirits, who would come looking for the bride. The spirits would be unable to distinguish the bride out of many young unmarried women, dressed in similar dresses. To date, the bridesmaids generally dress as they like, and this old custom is also falling into oblivion.

The most important aspect of wedding etiquette that still remains today is for the attendants to do their best not to spoil the wedding in any way. This includes: being polite, avoiding talking intensively and in a loud voice, being tolerant to any observed unique traditions and customs, not using a cell phone, and so on.

The bottom line is that since old wedding etiquette and rules are becoming obsoleset, it's up to the couple to decide how far they want to dive into the wedding planning etiquette. Wedding etiquette should be more of a concern for attendants of a wedding, and not to the bride and groom.

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Source by Adam Gaines