WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 06 Nov 2026 23:54:09 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg thank you – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Martin, Judith -- Miss Manners on Painfully Proper Weddings, ch. 13 “Giving and Receiving Thanks” (1995) https://wist.info/martin-judith/73277/ https://wist.info/martin-judith/73277/#respond Mon, 09 Dec 2024 18:55:51 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=73277 It doesn’t matter whether the bride or the bridegroom writes the letters of thanks for wedding presents provided that these go out immediately after the arrival of each present and are not in the handwriting of the bride’s mother.


Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist, etiquette expert [a.k.a. Miss Manners]
Miss Manners on Painfully Proper Weddings, ch. 13 “Giving and Receiving Thanks” (1995)

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