Brides Tea or Bride's Tea?

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ETA in your post that is not your title

Thanks, I thought it was right.

Yes, the mug is correct, Bride's Tea - it's the tea of the bride, so there's a possesive apostrophe. Or something like that ?

Bride's tea is the right one.

I agree with Sam - it's 'Bride's Tea'.

The tea is the tea of the bride so needs a possessive apostrophe.

Same as 'the bride's dress was from a lovely shop' for instance.

Well, both could be correct but the one with the apostrophe makes more sense in the context of you having a brew on the morning of your wedding!

What would be the correct context for the one without the apotrophe? I thought that would just make it the plural of bride.

This made me smile! i have no idea because i chose to sleep through school but i love the idea of having my very own cup for my tea on my wedding dayyyyyy! ive got ages yet, but still!

Dead cute!!

Yep, it would be a plural, which could work. So you have 'ladies loos' (loos for ladies) and 'golfers jumpers' (jumpers for golfers) and 'brides tea' (tea for brides).

Don't you still need an apostrophe at the end though? Brides', as in the possion of more than one bride. I just Googled it, sad I know, but I think it confused me even more ? I'm very tired and my brain seems to have turned to mush. This is what it said:

The following rules apply:

1. If the possessive noun is singular, always add an apostrophe + s.
2. If the possessive noun does not end in -s (in its written form), always add an apostrophe + s.
3. If the possessive noun is plural and ends in -s (and this is a characteristic feature of the large majority of plural nouns), just add an apostrophe.

ETA or without the apostrophe are you meaning it to not be possessive? I really need to go to sleep now...

Tiny you are right.

If singular bride's tea

if Plural, i.e. more than one bride, then it's brides' tea.

It's is the only word you can add an apostrophe where it's not possessive, and if it's possessive, you don't add one.

It is raining today.. can become it's raining today.

The venue won't allow dogs on its grounds.

no apostrophe even though the grounds belong to the venue. Just the way it is.

I like threads like this because I am an apostrophe geek and don't like it when it's mis-used!!

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