This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.

Etiquette of the Invitation

Wedding Invitations and Announcements—The Reception—Invitations to a Debut—For a Private Dance—Dinner Invitations—Ladies' Luncheons—Garden Parties—Wedding Anniversaries—Complimentary Cards

Invitations to all formal entertainments should be printed from engraved plates. For weddings land other large affairs of ceremony, the wording is in the third person. The wedding invitation and announcement are on heavy cream-laid note paper that folds once, is enclosed in an inner and outer envelope, and is usually sent by mail. The lettering is in script or in old English or German text, whatever is the fashion of the moment. The following is the proper arrangement:

Mr. and Mrs. George W. Wilson
request the honour of your presence
at the marriage of their daughter
Ina
to
Mr. Nelson J. Moore
on Saturday evening, the seeventeenth of September
One thousand nine hundred and ten
at half after seven o'clock
Congregational Church
Morton Park, Ill.

454