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Chapter XI






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INVITATIONS, ACCEPTANCES AND REGRETS

 

The Formal Invitation

As an inheritance from the days when Mrs. Brown presented her compliments and begged that Mrs. Smith would do her the honor to take a dish of tea with her, we still—notwithstanding the present flagrant disregard of old-fashioned convention—send our formal invitations, acceptances and regrets, in the prescribed punctiliousness of the third person.

All formal invitations, whether they are to be engraved or to be written by hand (and their acceptances and regrets) are invariably in the third person, and good usage permits of no deviation from this form.

 

Wedding Invitations

The invitation to the ceremony is engraved on the front sheet of white note-paper. The smartest, at present, is that with a raised margin—or plate mark. At the top of the sheet the crest (if the family of the bride has the right to use one) is embossed without color. Otherwise the invitation bears no device. The engraving may be in script, block, shaded block, or old English. The invitation to the ceremony should always request " the honour" of your " presence, " and never the " pleasure" of your " company." (Honour is spelled in the old-fashioned way, with a " u" instead of " honor.")

 

Enclosed in Two Envelopes

Two envelopes are never used except for wedding invitations or announcements; but wedding invitations and all accompaning cards are always enclosed first in an inner envelope that has no mucilage on the flap, and is superscribed " Mr. and Mrs. Jameson Greatlake, " without address. This is enclosed in an outer envelope which is sealed and addressed:

Mr. and Mrs. Jameson Greatlake,
24 Michigan Avenue,
Chicago.

To those who are only " asked to the church" no house invitation is enclosed.

 

The Church Invitation

The proper form for an invitation to a church ceremony is:

(Form No. 1.)

Mr. and Mrs. John Huntington Smith

Request the honour of your presence

At the marriage of their daughter

Mary Katherine

To

Mr. James Smartlington

On Tuesday the first of November

at twelve o'clock

at St. John's Church

In the City of New York

 

(Form No. 2.)

Mr. and Mrs. John Huntington Smith

Request the honour of

Miss Pauline Town's

Presence at the marriage of their daughter

Mary Katherine

To

Mr. James Smartlington

On Tuesday the first of November

at twelve o'clock

at St. John's Church

 

(The size of invitations is 5-1/8 wide by 7-3/8 deep.)

 

(When the parents issue the invitations for a wedding at a house other than their own.)

 


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