The Church WEDDING Invitation
The proper form for an invitation to a church ceremony is:
(Form No. 1.)
Mr. and Mrs. John Huntington Smith
request the honour of your presence
at the marriage of their daughter
Mary Katherine
to
Mr. James Smartlington
on Tuesday the first of November
at twelve o'clock
at St. John's Church
in the City of New York
(Form No. 2.)
Mr. and Mrs. John Huntington Smith
request the honour of
Miss Pauline Town's
presence at the marriage of their daughter
Mary Katherine
to
Mr. James Smartlington
on Tuesday the first of November
at twelve o'clock
at St. John's Church
(The size of invitations is 5-1/8 wide by 7-3/8 deep.)
(When the parents issue the invitations for a wedding at a house other
than their own.)
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Littlehouse
request the honour of
presence at the marriage of their daughter
Betty
to
Mr. Frederic Robinson
on Saturday the fifth of November
at four o'clock
at the house of Mr. and Mrs. Sterlington
Tuxedo Park
New York
R.s.v.p.
No variation is permissible in the form of a wedding invitation. Whether
fifty guests are to be invited or five thousand, the paper, the engraving
and the wording, and the double envelope are precisely the same.
Church Card of Admittance
In cities or wherever the general public is not to be admitted, a card of
about the size of a small visiting card is enclosed with the church
invitation:
Please present this card,
at St. John's Church
on Tuesday the first of November
Cards to Reserved Pews
To the family and very intimate friends who are to be seated in especially
designated pews:
Please present this to an usher
Pew No. ——
on Thursday the ninth of May
Engraved pew cards are ordered only for very big weddings where twenty or
more pews are to be reserved. The more usual custom—at all small and many
big weddings—is for the mother of the bride, and the mother of the
bridegroom each to write on her personal visiting card:
Pew No. 7
Mrs. John Huntington Smith
Four West Thirty-sixth Street
A card for the reserved enclosure but no especial pew is often inscribed
"Within the Ribbons."
