The invitations are in the name of the parents or of the
surviving parent, engraved in script upon note-paper. The
prevailing form is : —
Mr. 6^ Mrs. Francis Adams
Request the pleasure of your Company at the
Wedding of their Daughter
to
At the Church of the Trinity,
On Wednesday, February Fourteenth,
At One o'clock.
The cards of the bride and bridegroom are enclosed with
the invitation to the wedding ; the invitation to the reception
or breakfast is engraved upon a separate card, and enclosed
THE ETIQUETTE OF ENTERTAINMENTS. I 5/
in the same envelope. The invitations to wedding-breakfasts
are sent out two weeks in advance, and the reply must be as
immediate and formal as for a dinner. At wedding-recep-
tions, a servant should be at the door of the drawing-room
to announce the names of callers, whose cards, bearing an
address, must be left in the hall ; gentlemen leave their hats
in the hall when there is a breakfast. Invited guests must
either attend the reception, or send cards within ten days,
call personally within the season or the year, and if possible
entertain the newly wedded pair within three months. At
a reception, the refreshments may be a cake and one wine,
but no tea or coffee is served even at a full breakfast. The
wedding-breakfast may consist of bouillon, wine at choice,
salads, small game, shellfish, ices, creams, and jellies ; the
wedding-cake is set before the bride, who cuts the first slice ;
boxes of the same kind of cake are upon the table for the
guests to take, but they are no longer sent out. The ladies
wear their bonnets to wedding receptions and breakfasts, and
when the room is limited the breakfast is usually a " stand-
up~" affair.
After the return from the wedding-tour, the bride and
groom are given dinners at the houses of both their families
and of the bridesmaids. They need not entertain in return,
except by set reception-days ; then the refreshments may
be tea and cake upon trays or little tables, or the service of
a high tea or a kettle-drum.
For silver and golden weddings, the entertainment may
be simple or elaborate at the wish of the hosts. The invita-
tions are " at home " cards, with date and " Silver Wedding "
engraved upon them, or they may be in script on note-paper.
Among the collation there should be a wedding-cake con-
taining a ring.
When introductions take place at any entertainment,
the hostess should introduce the younger to the elder, and the
IS8 PRACTICAL AMERICAN COOKERY.
least distinguished person to the celebrity, first being sure
that the introduction is desired by both parties. At large
teas, receptions, and garden-parties, general introductions are
out of the question : but the guests are at liberty to converse
without them ; they do not necessarily involve themselves in
future intercourse thereby, nor do they by watering-place
introductions unless they are desired.
COUNTBY-HOUSE PARTIES.
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AI-modernized reading of the original text
The invitations are in the name of the parents or of the surviving parent, engraved in script upon note-paper. The prevailing form is : —
Mr. & Mrs. Francis Adams
Request the pleasure of your Company at the
Wedding of their Daughter to
At the Church of the Trinity,
On Wednesday, February Fourteenth,
At One o'clock.
The cards of the bride and bridegroom are enclosed with the invitation to the wedding ; the invitation to the reception or breakfast is engraved upon a separate card, and enclosed
in the same envelope. The invitations to wedding-breakfasts are sent out two weeks in advance, and the reply must be as immediate and formal as for a dinner. At wedding-receptions, a servant should be at the door of the drawing-room to announce the names of callers, whose cards, bearing an address, must be left in the hall ; gentlemen leave their hats in the hall when there is a breakfast. Invited guests must either attend the reception, or send cards within ten days, call personally within the season or the year, and if possible entertain the newly wedded pair within three months. At a reception, the refreshments may be a cake and one wine, but no tea or coffee is served even at a full breakfast. The wedding-breakfast may consist of bouillon, wine at choice, salads, small game, shellfish, ices, creams, and jellies ; the wedding-cake is set before the bride, who cuts the first slice ; boxes of the same kind of cake are upon the table for the guests to take, but they are no longer sent out. The ladies wear their bonnets to wedding receptions and breakfasts, and when the room is limited the breakfast is usually a " stand-up" affair.
After the return from the wedding-tour, the bride and groom are given dinners at the houses of both their families and of the bridesmaids. They need not entertain in return, except by set reception-days ; then the refreshments may be tea and cake upon trays or little tables, or the service of a high tea or a kettle-drum.
For silver and golden weddings, the entertainment may be simple or elaborate at the wish of the hosts. The invitations are " at home " cards, with date and " Silver Wedding " engraved upon them, or they may be in script on note-paper. Among the collation there should be a wedding-cake containing a ring.
When introductions take place at any entertainment, the hostess should introduce the younger to the elder, and the
least distinguished person to the celebrity, first being sure that the introduction is desired by both parties. At large teas, receptions, and garden-parties, general introductions are out of the question : but the guests are at liberty to converse without them ; they do not necessarily involve themselves in future intercourse thereby, nor do they by watering-place introductions unless they are desired.
COUNTRY-HOUSE PARTIES.