Dear Miss Manners:

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Now that same-sex marriages are a reality, one must think about engagement and wedding announcements in the social column. Traditionally, the bride's name comes first in engagement announcements. In these days of "Party A" and "Party B" (not to be confused with the Cat In the Hat's friends, Thing 1 and Thing 2), how does one decide whose name goes first?

Yours sincerely,
Muddled in Montgomery