Jamie Wolfer warns wedding planners not to overwhelm guests with excessive instructions on their website. Treating people like they need basic courtesy spelled out comes across as condescending and ignores cultural differences. Keep messaging concise and formatted clearly instead of long blocks of obvious rules.
We're at the point where we can't anticipate or expect just normal social decorum from our guests. When you go out of your way to elucidate things that should be considered common courtesy, socially appropriate versus socially inappropriate, when we're highlighting those things as do not do or do those things, it can come across really patronizing to your guests. There's an element to wedding planning where you have to understand cultural nuance and social awareness on certain things like writing too much, having it in block paragraph form when you're trying to communicate really quickly to your guests, or elucidating things that should already be really, really obvious.
