Before you take any of the below personally, please don’t. Because we understand that you didn’t know any better—and that the algorithm, not you, is to blame for convincing you that you absolutely needed a saxophone to accompany your entrance as your guests twirled their napkins in the air like they just didn’t care. And they still don’t, by the way. At least not enough to tell you that your publicly distributed wedding Pinterest board was downright vulgar. But fortunately, we do. As arbiters of taste—and, yes, we do call ourselves that—it is our duty to stand in the face of evil (his and her signature cocktails) and say enough is enough! As the old Latin maxim goes, “To err is human, but to persist in error is diabolical.” Before anyone else says “I do” this summer, here is a list of dos and—more importantly—don’ts. Boys and girls, it ends with us.

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Printed invitations (instead of Paperless Posts, Evites, or, God forbid, Partifuls)