“I’ve Been Assigned a Dish for My Friend’s Potluck Wedding”
Miss Manners recently answered a wedding-related letter I thought DW readers would have a field day with. Here’s the question: Recently our friend, who is 55 and marrying this spring (her third marriage), has told her friends that she intends to host a potluck wedding. She is inviting 100 people to an estate property lent to them for the weekend. She and her husband-to-be will ask guests to bring an assigned dish. They are both employed, own two homes (they intend to consolidate into a single household) and are planning a post-wedding vacation. Many of her friends (myself included) are somewhat distressed that she made this decision, indicating that she did not…
