For such an important function as a "ball"—i. e., a dancing party on a particularly elaborate scale—double sheets of thick, medium size, cream white note, are generally used; the hour must not be earlier than 9:30, and on the lower left corner the words "Dancing at Eleven" are to be inserted. Sometimes the hostess adds: "Fancy dress de rigueur"; meaning that all the guests are expected to appear in fancy costumes.
Wedding Cards.—Ought to be issued by the bride's family at least two weeks before the wedding takes place.
If it is to be a church wedding the following invitation on a double sheet of note paper is correct:
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hall
request your presence
at the marriage of their daughter
Eleanor Augusta
to
Mr. George Gordon Lewis
Saturday morning, June first
at twelve o'clock
St. Margaret Church.
A more formal invitation to a wedding reception is engraved thus and printed on a double sheet note of paper.
Mr. and Mrs. James Allen Stanton
have the honour of announcing
the marriage of their daughter,
Marietta Bland Davidson,
to
Mr. Edward Taylor White,
on Thursday, January third
nineteen hundred and one.
Church of the Incarnation,
Buffalo, New York.
At Home
after February fifteenth,
Omaha, Nebraska.
In the same envelope a select number of friends should receive the following additional invitation on a card:
Reception
from half-past twelve
until three o'clock.