Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-04-18

parents Of the bride send announcement
| cards.
Dinners 10 the young pair succeed each
other in rapid succession. For the first three
months the art Of entertaining 10 stretched to
| its uttermost.
If the wedding occurs in the evening then
| tie.
IN THE CASE OF A WIDOW.
widow in marrying again should not use
the name or initials Of her late husband.
Ii she was Mary Steward and had married
Mr. Hamilton and, being his widow, wishes to
marry Mr.. James Constable her cards should
read:
Mr.. AND MRS. STEWARD
request the pleasure Of your company at
the marriage OF their daughter,
MARY STEWARD HAMILTON,
Mr.. JAMES CONSTABLE.
Or, II she is alone. she can invite in her own
name as Mrs. Mary Steward Hamilton, or,
better still, friend sends out the cards in her
own name, with simply the cards Of Mrs.
Mary Steward Hamilton and of the gentleman
whom she is to marry.
fla wedding is to be celebrated at home the
space where the bridal party is to stand is
man comes down in his robes before the bridal
pair. they face him and he faces the company.
dassocks are prepared for them to kneel
upon. After the ceremony the clergyman re-
ures from his coigne OF vantage and the bridal
party takes his place, standing to receive their
friends congratulations. Should there be dane
ing at wedding and it is not bad old custom,
particularly in the country, the bride must
open the first quadrille, dancing with the best
man, while the groom takes out the first
bridesmaid.
WEDDING GIFTS.
As for showing the wedding gifts, that must
be left to individual taste.
No friend should be deferred from sending
small present, one not representing q money
Vaiue, because other and richer people
can send more expensive gift. Often the
humble Offering is a much more enduring and
useful souvenir. Any gift which betokens q
long and predetermined interest in the bride ia
the most flattering.
The custom of giving bridal gifts has become
an outrageous abuse of o good thing. From
being very pretty custom, one which had as
Its base the good reason Of helping the young
couple to begin housekeeping, 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
rivalry between the families; the publicity of
the whole thing, the notoriety and extravaganSe
could well be rebuked.
IN THIS COUNTRY.
The wedding breakfast in America is stand
up affair, and it is proper to serve every deli
cacy, such as salads of chicken and lobster,
boned and truffled turkey and pheasants patti
OF game, cold partridge, pate de foie gras, ter
rap1n and oysters, ices, creams jellies and
fruits, 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 bios
somlng trees The massing of a single flower,
the yellow daffOdil or the pink and white apple
blossom. is a very good idea.
Ii choir boys could sing a wedding choral
outside the windows it would be a happy
thought, and it is a pleasant feature of q coun-
try wedding that the faithful domestics who
have loved the bride from childhood can assist.
In England they coun: on each wearing a favor
made by the bride herself. The cook, the
maid, the nurses and the men servants in Eng
land always expect a wedding favor and small
gratuity. and in this co itry all expect box of
wedding cako.
COUNTRY WEDDING.
At country wedding, if the day is fine, little
tables are set out on the lawn. The ladies seat
themselves around, the gentlemen carry re-
freshments to them The piazzas can be deco
rated with autumn boughs, evergreens and
MOVERS; the whole thing becomes a garden
party and even the family dogs should have a
wreath Of white flowers around their good old
necks.
Many brides Of today leave the bouquet at
nome and carry an ivory prayer book to
church. The term honeymoon il derived from
the German. who drank metheglin a beverage
made OF honey. for thirty days after the we'd
ding.
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 each to
Jake AS the ring is the expressive emblem of
the perpetuity of the compact, and as the
pride cake and hbatons form significant SYM
Dolls OF the nectar sweets of matrimony. it will
not do to Danish the cake altogether, although
few people eat it and few wish to carry it away.
Brides should send their future address. if
possible, with the wedding cards, else if one is
invited only to church wedding no one knows
when or where to call.
CARDS FOR RECEPTION DAYS.
1t Is a convenient and pleasant custom for
the bridal pair to send out after their marriage
cards having the date of two or more reception
days at their new residence.
Quiet weddings, either at home or in church
are very much preferred by some families.
The bride IS married in travelling dress and
bonnet and drives off in the groom's carriage
from quiet wedding to the honeymoon.
People with large acquaintance cannot al
ways invite all their friends, of course. to a
wedding reception, therefore only ask them to
the church.
These invitations require no answer. but peo-
pie being at distance, who cannot attend the
wedding, should send their cards by mail to
assure their hosts that the invitation has been
received.
Much i'll feeling is apt to be engendered by
the distinction which is inevitably made in
leaving out the friends vino feel that they were
entitled to an invitation to the house. 1t is
better to offend no one on 30 important an oc-
casion.
Wedding cards and wedding stationery should
De simple, white without glaze and with no
Ornamentation at ALL
1t is proper for the bride to have her left hand
bare as she walks to the altar, as it saves her
the trouble of taking off a long glove.
CHILD BRIDEsMAIDs.
Child bridesmaids are very pretty and very
much in favor. These charming children COW
cred with flowers, looking very grave and
solemn, are the sweetest of heralds for a we'd
ding procession.