The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-04-02
NEEDING ETIQUETTE.

/ Win the invitations. These are issued
from two weeks to a month before tbs.
date set for the important affair. Two
J weeks time is thought sufficient not
Ice for a guest in the same town OF
cl.y, but when persons are remotely
situated their invitations should Oa
semi in advance of the others. 1t is
thought extremely bad taste for an
invitation to arrive only a few days
/ before a wedding or after IT has occur
red
No wedding invitation, unless. the
/ ceremony is TO be bOtn sudden and
/ informal, must be issued verbally.
! For a church wedding, invitations
are sent TO those who cvrear on tn
visiting list of both families. But .
bie-hearted bride may go further, ~
fer her bridesmaids and usher5. n
fact, a few Lndirected invitations for
3 iEGr own personal relations or
friends. Marriage being me most I'M
Dortant episode of ones lie, it is we'll
to begin with every gracious act pos
siElg Coed luck is supposed to at
tend the SmOOthness WITH which the
ceremony and its many details pass
Off II happy the bride the sun sh 7n9S
on, so also may be accounted Tnhap-
| py she who has a single disgrunti ii
spectator in her wedding gathering.
c1avin2 and rCDer used, The acme 81
e-t CANT simplicity.
Publishers p7trCnizeI by the fash
iCnable world are past masters in the
art Of effecting this good taste Al
n.LSt square sheets OF fine pure white
uaueI are used, with smooth, almost
( IIs,cIsZpd surface. They are fOld@d
directly in half and put in matching
/ envelopes, these being ordered, O.
| course, with the paper A smart size
! for the wedding invitation measures
| seven and a half inches in length, By
six and a fourth inches in width.
Put there are tastes and tastes in
wedding invitations, as in everything
: Csc. so any slight variation one way
or the other from these measurement
/ is not uncommon. The lettering Is
GCne in plain script, Roman prefer
ably. or in the old English characters.
/ When sending the wedding cards i
/ is not polite to make single invita-
/ ton serve fer an entire household. Il
/ there are a father and mother, three
| sons and two unmarried daughter.
/ however. the envelopes maT be direct
! Ell in this way; Mr.. ana Hrs. Arm
! lstI ong"; "The Misses =. -Istrong';
J ''I'hC Messrs. Armstrong 4 singi-
daughter is addressed as Miss Arm
! strong, her baptismal name never b.
any chance appearing.
| The accepted form fan invitatiu,
/ TO q church wedding runs as belU1
aid is arranged in this order:
Mr.. and Mrs. Elliott T, Lee
request the honor of your presence
| at the marriage of their daughte:
Helene
to
Mr.. Hamilton Berg Hull
on Wednesday afternoon. May the fifth
at four o'clock,
Saint Thomas Church.
New York.
The name of the person invited is
written in by hand. 1t makes moe
work, of course, but through tliS
small detail alone an added touch OF
! elegance and courtesy is certainly
achieved.
OF course, there are a number Of
otner forms for wedding invitations.
but space will not permit their being
given here. When in doubt the rem
, edy is at hand-cOnsult an authorized
bCOk on etiquette or state your case
to the fashionable publisher.
Announcement cards are employed
when q marriage mas been celebrated
Quietly at the brides home, OF in
church when only few persons have
/ been invited. They are mailed on the
day of the wedding with little boxes
OF wedding cake to all intimates, t
whom the event is of moment. TIE
ammo Uucement copies in paper and en-
craving the wedding invitations, and
except for the necessary changes or
a word or two, il is Identical to the
Other in form.
In the event of a home wedding.
with breakfast or luncheon to Ioi-
low. the invitation is wOrded as FOR
the church ceremony. with the exc9D-
ton of the sentence honor of your
presence" "The pleasure of your
company or presence" is substitut
ell and almost invariably tae letters
r s. V. P. are put at the left-haud
corner of the sheet, these polite hero