The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-04-19

In this land of comfortable hotels, an agree.
able and quiet apartment can always be
secured.
After returning to her home the bride
should advise her friends by card of the
days on which she will receive them.
10 persons not invited to the wedding
the parents of the bride send announce
ment cards.
Dinners to the young pair succeed ench
other i'll rapid succession. For the first
three months the art of entertaining is
stretched. to it's uttermost.
II the wedding occurs in the evening,
then the groom must wear the dress coat
and white tie.
A widow in marrying again should not
use the nance or initials of her late husband,
1t she was Mary Steward and had married
Mr.. Hamilton, and, being his widow, wishes
to marry Mr.. James Constable, her cards
should read:
NH. AND MRS. STEWARD
request the pleasure Of your company at
the marriage of their daughter,
MARY STEWARD HAMILTON,
Mr.. JAMES CONSTABLE.
Or, If she is alone, she can invite in her
own name as Mrs. Mary Steward Hamilton.
or better still, a friend sends out the cards
IN her own name with simply the cards of
Mrs. Mary Steward Hamilton and of the
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Ii a wedding is to be celebrated at home,
the space where the bridal party is to stand
Is usually marked off by a ribbon. The
clergyman comes down in his robes before
the bridal pair, they face him and he faces
the company.
Hassocks are prepared for them to kneel
upon. After thec ceremony the clergyman
retires from his coigne of vantage and the
bridal party takes his place, standing 70 re-
ceive their friends congratulations.
Should there be dancing at a wedding, and
IT is not. a bad OLD! eustom, particularly in
the country, the bride must open the first
quadrille, dancing with the best man, while
the groom takes out the first bridesmaid.
Asfor showing the wedding gifts, that
must be left to individual taste.
No friend should be deferred from send
ing a small present, one not representing
a money value, because other and richie
people can send a more expensive gift.
enduring and useful souvenir. Any gift
which betokens Il long and predetermined
interest III the bride is the most fatterinp,
The custom of giving bridal gifts has be-
come an outrageous abuse of a good thing.
From being u very pretty custom, one
which had as its base the good reason of
helping the young couple to begin house
keeping, which is still observed in Holland
and the north, by presents of bed and table
linen and the necessary furniture of the
house. it has become but another form of
ostentation. There gets to be a rivalry be-
tween the families: the publicity of the
whole thing, the notoriety and extraya-
gance. could be we'll rebuked.
The wedding breakfast in America is a
stand up affair, and it is proper to serve
every delicacy, such as salads of chicken
and lobster, boned and trutlled turkey and
pheasants, patti of game, cold partridge,
pate de foie gras, terrapin and oysters, ices,
creams, jellies and frnits, champagne.
claret and punch.
The bride sometimes cuts the cake and
allows the young people to search for a
ring.
The prettiest wedding is one in June at
a country house, particularly if the bride
can walk to church over flowers and under
the blossoming trees. The massipp of a
flower, the yellow .datfodil or the
pink and white apple blossom. is u very
good idea.
If choir boys could sing a wedding choral
outside the windows it would be a happy
thought. and it is a pleasant feature of a
country wedding that the faithful domestics
who have loved the bride from childhood
can assist. In England they count on each
wearing a favor made by the bride herself.
The cook, the maid, the nurses and tho
men-seryants in England always expect a
favor and Il small gratuity. and in
country all expect Il box of wedding
cake.
At a country wedding, if the day is fine,
little tables are set ont on the lawn, The
ladies seat themselves around, the gentle
men carry refreshments to them. The
plnzzas can be decorated with autumn
boughs, evergreens and flowers. the whole
thlng becomes a garden party, and aver the
family dogs should nave n wreath of white
around their good old necks.
Many bride of to-day leave the bouquet
Mt home, and carry an ivory prayer book to
church. The term honeymoon is derived
from the German who drank metheglin, a
made of honey, for thirty DAYS
after the wedding.
The bride cake is not so universally sent
about as formerly, but still one finds the
little narrow box of cake near the door for
zach to take. AS the ring is the expressive
of the perpetuity of the compact,
as the bride cake and lihutions form
significant symbols of the nectar sweets of
it will not do to Danish the cake
altogether, although few people eat it and
wish to car y it away
Brides should send their future address. |
I possible, with the wedding cards, else if |
,ne IS invited only to Il church wedding, no |
)ne knows when or where to call.
10 ISL convenient and pleasant custom
for the bridal rair to send out after their
cards. having the date of two or
more reception days at their new residence.
Quiet weddings either at home or in
,hurch are very much preferred by some
The bride is married in travelling dress
bonnet, and drives off in tho croom's
from n quiet wedding TO tho honey
noon.
People with n large acquaintance cannot
always invite all their friends, of course, to
/. wedding reception, therefore only ask
hem to tho church.
These invitations require no answer, but
being at Il distance, who cannot at
end tho wedding, should send their cards
~ mail to assure their hosts that the invi-
alton has been received.
Much i'll feeling IL apt to DO engendcrea
~ The distinction which IL inevitably made
II leaving ont the friends who feel that
hey were entitled to an invitation to tho
IL il better to offend no ono on 10
IN occasion.
Wedding cards and wedding stationery