The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-01-17
FASHIONS IN WEDDINGS,
Points About the Way to Enter the
Matrimonial State.
TIME AND THE MONTH.
The Wedding Breakfast or Reception
-Tronsseaus of Today and the
Modern Honeymoon.


-Tronsseaus of Today and the
Modern Hone, moon.
Even in America, where the bachelor
girl tlourishes as she does nowhere else,
the custom of marrying and giving in
marriage continues to arouse a lively in
terest. Many a woman can recall with
case occasions when attending fashion
able church wedding involved discomfort
to say nothing of serious damage to
clothes. millinery and silk hats, because
Of the crowd; occasions when, lacking
the necessary bit of pasteboard, women
and men, too, unblushingly perjured
themselves in Il vain effort to gain adj
mlttance to the church. and when the
floral decorations were afterward eagerly
torn from pillars and pews under the
very noses of protesting policemen. The
truth is, Americans in general, and Amer
lean women in particular. dearly love
wedding, and the bigger it is the better
everyone is pleased.
For some reason not easy to explain
fashion has frowned upon the evening
wedding and substituted therefor the un-
romantic noon ceremony celebrated in
church, and the afternoon wedding which
must take place between 2:30 and 5.
After the noon wedding breakfast or Il
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 mar
riage ceremony at home is not desirab BILE,
unless the bride and bridegroom are OF
different religious beliefs or the family
OF enc OF them is in mourning.
The Wedding Date.
The American bride is pretty free from
superstltlons, 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 a month particularly we'll suited to
matrimonial purposes, for according to
the years marriage statistics an unusual
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.
unlucky 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
drawing room, in determined effort to
get at least peep at one-half the brides
on its list.
Next to April in popularity is Novem-
Der, and after that the first half of De-
cember, all of January, the days OF Feb
ruary preceding Ash Wednesday, the
first week of June, the last week Of Oc-
tober. September and even October are
too early, June a trif1e too late, for we'd
dings in town, and weddings other than
the very smallest during Lent are barred
by fashionable society.
Monday for health,
tuesday for wealth,
"Wednesday the best day Of all,
Thursday for crosses,
Friday for losses,
Saturday no luck at all,
runs an old saw; nevertheless Saturday
inence in the American schedule of we'd
ding dates, and according to one author
lty 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 Swedish
adagc. "Cnlucky tho bride the rain
falls on is the way it is put in English
speaking countries. The uD-to-date New
l DIRK bride. 1t NAV be remarked. cares
very little about the weather. II the
sun shines on her nuptials, so much the
better.
wedding Presents and Invitations.
Slowly but surely the custom of Civ
ing wedding presents has become more
general and the gifts more costly. Eli
derdoWn cushions, crocheted counter
panes and like useful articles would be
received with scant enthusiasm by Il
bride in good society today. She pre-
fers rather that her friends shall sup
home; Until quite recently i: was not
considered good form for other than ~ola-
tlves Of the bride or the bridegroom to
send jewelry. AT the present moment
1t IS the gift most in favor. Generously
in contributing pieces Of jeweIry rangins
an the way from diamond necklace or
stomacher to hat pin or slipper buckle,
and no one but relative now gives small
silver to fashionable bride. Larger
pieces: though. come within the line set
for friends, and so do curios of all kinds
and bric-a-brac in china or metal.
An important point to remember in
connection with the weddin~ present is
that the sooner. it is sent after the mar
riage date has been announced the more
strlctly does the sender conform to the
latest canon of wedding-gift etionetta
tn: representative wedding invitation
Of this season is printed in old English
on on heavy white paper of dull finish, six
by seven inches i'll dimensions. A size
one inch narrower and tritle shorter. is
also used, printed in Roman tvne or
in script. Space is left for the writing in
Of the guests name, thus:
..,..
MRS. VAN CORTLAND
requests the honor Of =:
presence at the marriage of her
daughter :.
MARGARET
to
Mr.. THOMAS KING.
on Thursday, the sixth day Of De.
cember, at half after three
o'clock,
. Trinity Church
'''''' Observation-Disclosures
The guests name may be om;ttod fron,