The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-07
HOW TO Get MARRIED
WAY To TIE NUPTIAL
KNOT
AFTERNOON THE CHOSEN TIME
Only Relatives and Intimate Friends
to Receive Invitations to Re-
ception Mt the BRIDES
Home.

Even in America, where the bachelor
girl fourishes as she does nowhere else,
sthe custom of marrying and giving in
marriage continues to arouse lively in
terest, says the New York Sun. Many
a woman can recall with ease occasions
when attending a fashionable church
wedding involved discomfort to say
nothing of serious damage to clothes,
millinery and silk hats, because of the
crowd; occasions when. lacking the nee
essary bit of pasteboard, women and n,en
too unblushingly perjured themselves in
vain effort to gain admittance to the
church and when the floral decorations
were afterward eagerly torn from pillars
and pews under the very noses of pro-
testing policemen. The truth is Ameri-
cans in general, and American women in
particular, dearly love a wedding, and
the bigger it is the better everyone is
pleased.
For soI1e reason not easy to explain
fashion has frowned upon the evening
weGGing. and substituted therefor the
anromantic noon ceremony celebrated in
church, and the afternoon wedding which
lust take place between 2:S0 and s. Aft
er the noon wedding a breakfast or
comparatively small reception is given
at the house of the brides relatives.
"A crush if you will at the church"
says an authority on weddings, but only
relatives and intimate friends at the
house.
According to the same authority a mar
riaSe ceremony at home is not desirable,
unless the bride and bridegroom are of
different religious beliefs or the family
of one of them is in mourning.
TiHo American bride is pretty free from
superstition. but in one respect, that of
choosing her wedding date, she has
shown for many generations aversion to
the month Of May AT last, however,
this prejudice seems to yield to the
charms of month particularly well suit
ed to matrimonial purposes, for according
to the years marriage statistics, an un-
usual number of fashionable weddings
took place in May.
In France and the British isles May is
one of the most popular months in the
calendar with brides, a circumstance
which undoubtedly has helped to popular
ize it in America. On the other hand, the
Italians and Greeks consider May an un-
lucky month for matrimonial ventures
The month most in favor just now with
the New York bride is April or that part
Of it succeeding Easter Sunday. During
its all too brief days society literally
scurries all day long from one church TO
another with an occasional dash into a
drawing room, in determined effort to
get at least a peep at one-half the brides
on it's list.
Next to April in popularity is November
and after that the first half of December
all of January, the days of February
preceding Ash Wednesday, the first week
of June, the last week of October, Sep
TENDER and even October are too early,
June a trifie too late for weddings in
town, and weddings other than the very
smallest during Lent are barred by fash
ionable society.
Monday for health,
Tuesday for wealth,
Wednesday the best day of all,
Thursday for crosses,
Friday for losses,
Saturday no luck at al.
runs an old saw; nevertheless Saturday
has been promoted of late to some prom
irence in the American schedule of we'd
ding dates and according to one author
itX for no better reason than that more
men guests can be secured then than on
any other day. Wednesday will continue
to be the favorite day.
wealthy will be the wife whose bridal
crown the rain falls on says a Swedish
adage ''Unlucky the bride the rain falls
on is the way it is put in English
speaking countries. The up-to-date New
York bride, it may be remarked, cares
very little about the weather. If the sun
shines on her nuptials so much the bet
ter.
Slowly but surely the custom of giving
wedding presents has become more gen
eral and the gifts more costly. Elder
down cushions, crocheted counterpanes
and like useful articles would be re-
ceived with scant enthusiasm by bride
in good society today. She prefers that
her friends shall supply the ornamental
plenishingS of her home. Until quite re-
Gently it was not considered good form
for other than relatives of the bride or
the bridegroom to send jewelry. At the
present moment it is the gift most in
favor. Generously inclined friends vie
with one another in contributing pieces
of jewelry ranging all the way from a
diamond necklace or stomacher OF a hat
pin or slipper buckle and no one but a
relative now gives small silver to
fashionable bride. Larger pieces, though,
come within the line set for friends and
so do clrios of all kinds and bric-a- brac
in china or metal.
An important point to remember in
connection with the wedding present is
that the sooner it Is sent after the mar
riage date has been announced the more
strictly does the sender conform to the
latest canon of wedding gift etiquette.
The representative wedding invitation
of this season is printed in old English
on heavy white paper of dull finish. six
by seven inches in dimensions. A size
one inch narrower and a, trifle shorter is
also used, printed in Roman type or in
script. Space is left for the writing in
of the guests name thus: