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Etiquette of the Invitation
Wedding Invitations and Announcements—The Reception—Invitations to a Debut—For a Private Dance—Dinner Invitations—Ladies' Luncheons—Garden Parties—Wedding Anniversaries—Complimentary Cards

Invitations to all formal entertainments should be printed from engraved plates. For weddings land other large affairs of ceremony, the wording is in the third person. The wedding invitation and announcement are on heavy cream-laid note paper that folds once, is enclosed in an inner and outer envelope, and is usually sent by mail. The lettering is in script or in old English or German text, whatever is the fashion of the moment. The following is the proper arrangement:

Mr. and Mrs. George W. Wilson request the honour of your presence at the marriage of their daughter Ina to Mr. Nelson J. Moore on Saturday evening, the seeventeenth of September One thousand nine hundred and ten at half after seven o'clock Congregational Church Morton Park, Ill.

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