Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-05-07
Dame Fashion Sets
Many Rules about
Wedding Ceremony

The formal wedding requires many
invitations and announcements, saw
Vogue. How shall they be chosen ane
sent out? Any good stationer will have
models to choose from, and any mothe,
and daughter may select from them
either what they themselves like, il
| they know, or what the stationer tells
them they ought to like. if they don'i
For a large town wedding, there ie
money, with a card to be presented at
the church, and the card of invitation
to the breakfast, or the reception,
whichever it may be. The kind of
paper and the kind of printing change
a little with the times, but heavy white
paper and either Antique Roman or
classic script is always safe. If desired.
the stationer will see that the invita-
tons are properly addressed and sent
out, a list being furnished him by the
bride. This list will naturally include
all the people to whom the groom's
family wish to send invitations. Some
households prefer to employ their own
secretaries, and, in that case, the invi-
tations would be sent out under the
family's personal direction. An out
side envelope should be directed to
"Mr. and Mrs. John Jay Jones, 30 Fifth
avenue, anu HI luSIuc Ouc u AlE. II
Mrs. John Jay Jones'" without address.
various cards together, and is some
times dispensed with.
Indeed, for some simple forms of in
vitation, or for announcements now.
n often sees paper and envelope in
one. In addressing a single man, M
writes the name. Arthur Montgomery,
Esq.," and directs the invitation to his
rooms or his club. not, if one can help
it. to his place of business. A whole
family must not be included in one invi-
tation. Mr.. and Mrs. Van Buren,
Brown must have their own. the Misses
Brown theirs. and the Messrs. Brown
Gf there are ~grown-up sons) theirs.
The inside envelopes and cards may
separate the young people into Miss
Brown and Miss Mary Brown" ivan
Buren, Brown, Jr., ESQ.," and alfred
Brown. Esq In sending announce
ments to married people where only
one is personally known TO the sender,
the address always includes both.
The French custom of using Mr..
of the English one of using
Esquire, is also employed for invita-
tions, though it is considered incorrect
if used for notes or letters among
people. 1t is unnecessary to an
swer an invitation to the church, unless
Dne has reason to think a place has |
reserved for one. But an invita- |
ion to the wedding breakfast should
answered. The father and mother
IF the bride send out the invitations
and announcements. If she is an
some older member of her
does it for her. If the bride
$ a widow, or a divorcee. her parents
would still be the proper persons to
the ceremony.
The burden of all wedding festivities
alls upon the brides family. Under
heir orders, the church is made ready
decorated with flowers and plants.
{ they choose it so-the awning put
lp, the fees paid to the sexton and his
assistant. the music selected, the or
.anist land sometimes the choir ar
'anged for, the clergyman asked to
the ceremony. He is paid
'ither by a check or by having some
made him-by the groom, that
'eing by custom a groom's p%rerogative:
mt unless a bride is changing her reli-
ion. as she changes her name, for that
f her husband. she and her parents
hoose the officiating clergyman, who
ften has been for many years their
and many have chirstened the
irl he is now to see married.