The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-07
NEW WEDDING ETIQUETTE.
IT is NO LONGER CORRECT TO COL
LECT AN ELABORATE TROUS-
SEAU.

Brides Elect Are Not Overworked
and They Go Out Socially Up to
the Very Day of the Wedding.
Brides Are Now Very Prompt in
Appearing for the Ceremony and
They All Use the Right Foot First
in Entering the Church and Leav-
ing the AItaF-BridaI Bouquets
and Rules for the Best Man.
New York May 5.-UntI this season
brides-elect never appeared at any social
gathering of importance after their we'd
ding cards were issued. That rule is now
dead letter, and up TO the day before her
wedding, young woman is seen every
where. OF course this IS the natural result
of the recent and reasonable revolt against
putting together an elaborate rousseau.
Smart girls in New York society for in
stance, who are marrying Ihis spring, have
provided themselves with suitable ward
robes for the season and nothing more, and
this, with the getting of the wedding dress,
has left them time and strength for all the
passing gale. lies of the moment.
Another new and interesting point in the
present busy hymenial season is the very
early sending out Of invitations. Cards are
posted just a month before the day of the
wedding, and rule somehow has arisen
ordainng that directly on receipt of the
invitation the wedding present must be
sent or within four days after receiving
che invitation. BY this means the bride is
not troubled with the struggling in of
gifts up to the very day of the ceremony,
and u heavy demand on her vocabulary of
thanks al in the week preceding her mar
riage and maybe the week after.
There is also another deep laid design in
sending out invitations so early A bride
who posts her cards four weeks before the
great day fully expects her friends TO call
upon her promptly, and by skillful CONVEX
saGon acquire a pretty clear notion of
what she really wants in the way of a gift
Relatives and intimate friends are ex-
pected to openly solicit her wishes on that
point, or you can take aside her mother
who knows the young lady's wishes, and
VIII considerably give helpful lips in sill
yer hric-a-brac, pictures, jewelry, etc.
Engagement Pitchers.
To her really close friends a girl of course
writes notes announcing her engagement
and expecting in return not only congrat-
u,ations, but an engagement souvenir
BY men't the occasion can be marked with
flowers, but by women the memento now
takes the form Of a pitcher In glass
gold, silver, pewter and all the varieties
of porcelain these pitchers are given, near
ly all of them small and engraved or paint
ed with some appropriate sentiment ex-
pressing good wishes. The little jug is al
ways sent full of flowers or bonbons, and
the giving of one of these, when the en-
gagement is announced, by no means alb
solves the giver from the duty and ex-
pense of a wedding present.
showing the Presents.
Only recently have we adopted the Eng
fish custom of displaying the wedding
gifts, and this is done just two days be-
fore the marriage, in the library and a
luncheon IS given or refreshments served
to those hidden 90 view the jewels and
silver, etc. Everybody who has contribut-
ed a gift, of course, is asked, ana the in