DEAR MISS MANNERS: Someone I know who just got married six months ago has caught her husband cheating, and is now filing for divorce. The question is: Do they need to return the wedding gifts?
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GENTLE READER: Did they write each person to give thanks for those presents?
Miss Manners asks because she is making a new rule -- or rather, amending the old one. The old rule was that wedding presents must be returned after a broken engagement, even if the engagement is broken at the altar, but that they need not be returned if the wedding took place, regardless of whether the marriage lasts.
She now declares that this only holds if thanks for those presents have already been sent.