{"id":31837,"date":"2011-05-27T14:42:32","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T04:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/au\/articles\/1550-2\/"},"modified":"2021-11-10T02:04:09","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T15:04:09","slug":"1550-2","status":"publish","type":"au-article","link":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/articles\/1550-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Wedding etiquette according to Ita Buttrose"},"content":{"rendered":"\n Ita Buttrose&#8217;s indispensible guide to the rules of etiquette in Australia covers everything from wine, the workplace and, of course, weddings.\n<p class=\"lead\" style=\"text-align: left\">Times may have changed but, according to Ita Buttrose, good manners never go out of fashion. And, of course, she&#8217;s spot on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"lead\" style=\"text-align: left\">Ita may be best known (and admired) for her serious media credentials, but she&#8217;s no slouch when it comes to wedding etiquette, or should that be Itaquette?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Her latest offering, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com.au\/Guide-Australian-Etiquette-Occasions-Weddings\/dp\/0670075477\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><em>A Guide to Australian Etiquette for All Occassions, from Weddings to Work<\/em><\/a> offers sage advice on how to behave at all levels of society, from a day of AFL down at the &#8220;G&#8221; to the correct way to use post-nominals should you ever be privileged enough to be awarded an Order of Australia title.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">But a significant portion of the book is taken up with our favourite topic, yes, weddings, and Ita advises on everything from who pays for what during a wedding to how to ask, oh-so-politely, for cash gifts rather than opting to receive another three toasters or dining sets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Delicate subjects such as pre-nuptial agreements (called Binding Financial Agreements in Australia) and cancelling an engagement or weddings are aso covered, but Ita&#8217;s book is also filled with practical wedding related topics, too; you&#8217;ll find perfect wording for invitations, how to recall an acceptance to a wedding you can no longer attend as well as detailing the duties of each member of the bridal party.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Never one to shy away from embarrassing topics, Ita explains how to handle letting one rip in polite company or the correct way to de-friend someone on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">In this day and age where some people genuinely don&#8217;t know how to act in certain circumstances, Ita&#8217;s Aussie guide to etiquette is indispensible and, at the very least, most informative and entertaining.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Ita&#8217;s fabulous (and often hilarious) book is out now and retails for $29.95.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2204,"template":"","au_article_tag":[333,152],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au-article\/31837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/au-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au-article\/31837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"au_article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au_article_tag?post=31837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}