I think receptions generally were for the guests rather than the couple. In Brat Farrar Ruth says she will stay and dance at her wedding and the family take this as the sort of dreadful self-centred thing she would do. I don't know at what point this stopped being Not Done.
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Date: 2010-07-22 01:01 pm (UTC)I think receptions generally were for the guests rather than the couple. In Brat Farrar Ruth says she will stay and dance at her wedding and the family take this as the sort of dreadful self-centred thing she would do. I don't know at what point this stopped being Not Done.
I look forward to discussion of non-chalet EBD.