Affectionately yours,
Anna Brown.
A formal invitation may read as follows:
Mr. and Mrs. James M. Moore
request the pleasure of your presence at
the marriage of their daughter
Alice
to
Charles Albert Smith,
Thursday Evening, August twenty-fourth,
at eight o’clock,
121 Seventh Street East,
Davenport, Iowa,
1899.
Another form is as follows:
Mr. and Mrs. John Brown
request the pleasure of your presence
at the
marriage breakfast of their daughter
Mary Louise
and
Mr. Charles Albert Smith,
on Thursday, October the sixth,
from one until three o’clock.
15 Prospect Street.
If the bride is an orphan, or if there is any very good reason why her parents’ names should not appear on the invitation, the latter may be sent in the name of the married brother and his wife, or in the name of whoever gives the bride the wedding reception. It may read as follows:
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Smith
request the honor of your presence
at the marriage of their sister
Bertha Wild
to
Mr. James Montgomery Brown,
on Wednesday, October the twelfth,
at eight o’clock.
2400 Fifth Street South.
The following is a suitable form for an invitation for a silver wedding:
Twenty-fifth Anniversary.
Mr. and Mrs. John H. Smith
at Home
Saturday Ev’g, December twenty-seventh,
Eighteen hundred ninety nine,
From eight to eleven o’clock.