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Page 124
At the breakfast, guests are usually assigned places,
but, if not, may take any
seat. Only the specially invited guests await
the departure of the married couple, which
ends the reception or breakfast.
If boxes of wedding-cake are placed on a
table, each guest takes one on his departure.
GUESTS-CALLS. Invited guests should call at
least within ten days and leave their cards.
DRESS. Broadly speaking, at a morning or afternoon
wedding the guest wears afternoon dress,
and at an evening wedding evening dress.
From the latter rule there are no deviations
possible, but in the former there is
greater latitude. Thus it would be possible
for a man to wear a black cutaway coat at
an afternoon wedding.
MEN. If the wraps are not left in the carriage,
they are removed in the vestibule and are
carried on the arm into the pew. A man
follows the woman, who is escorted to the
pew by the usher. At the end of the ceremony
the guests should not leave until the
immediate family have passed out.
Guests who are not invited to the breakfast
or reception should not take offense, as
the number present on such occasions is
necessarily limited. These guests may seat
themselves or are seated by the ushers, but
not in the pews reserved for the family and
specially invited guests.
WOMEN. No one should be present at a wedding
in mourning, and it should be laid aside temporarily
even by the mother, who wears
purple velvet or silk. Women on entering
the church take the usher's left arm, and are
escorted to the pew, while their escort follows
behind.
If they are immediate members of the
family or are specially invited guests, they
should give their names to the usher that he
may seat them in the places reserved for
them.
HATS OF GROOM AND OF BEST MAN. To do
away with the possibility of the best man
having to take care of the hats of groom and
best man during the wedding ceremony, it
is a good plan for both groom and best man
to leave them in the vestry, and to have them
carried out to the front of the church, ready
for them at the end of the ceremony.
HOME See Home Weddings.
HOST. See Father of Bride.
HOSTESS. See Mother of Bride.
HOURS. Any hour from nine in the morning to
nine in the evening is appropriate.
The morning hours are usually selected for
quiet home affairs; twelve o'clock, or high
noon, is still considered as the fashionable
hour, while from three to six is the hour
most convenient for all concerned.
Evening weddings are not very convenient,
chiefly because it is not as easy to handle the
details as in the daytime.
INVITATIONS. The woman's parents, guardians,
or others give the wedding, send out the invitations,
and bear all the expense of engraving and sending
out the same. They are issued in the name of the
one giving the wedding, and should be sent to
near-by friends about twenty days in advance of
the wedding day and earlier to out-of-town friends.
With them are sent the invitation to the wedding
breakfast or reception, and also the card of
admission to the church.
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