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By MUPHEN WHITNEY
Democrat Special Writer
Being a bride is a fairly easy task. After all, all you have to do is open ltny bi|>ok on etiquette — or any magazine that specializes in brides and weddings — and your every move is all chronicled for you.
Things are not quite so simple for the guest, however. One would think that attending a wedding — and all the other festivities that go along with a wedding — would be reasonably simple. *
The problem is that people have made it too simple of late. Many of the niceties of being a guest have gone the way of other of life’s former gixxl manners.
Rut the worst thing about not trotting out the manners at wedding time is that a guest with bad — or no — manners can spoil that one great, glorious day in a bride’s life.
So here are some guidelines that should make this season’s coming weddings more enjoyable for guest and bride alike. A guest’s obligation begins when he first gets word of the upcoming nuptials.
You congratulate the groom-tobe*— after all, look at the great catch he made — and you offer your best wishes to the bride-to-be.
It would be the worst manners in the world to congratulate the brideto-be: she is not the one who made the catch, but rather was caught. (At least, that is what all polite people believe in public.)
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