The initials R.s.v.p. may be used in the lower left-hand corner of either form.
The only essential difference in the form of the invitation to a home-wedding is that instead of asking for the honor of your presence, the request is for the pleasure of your company. Of course, the home-address must be given at the end, instead of the name of the church. When the ceremony is to be performed in the presence of only a limited number of friends, those who are to witness it receive with their invitation a small engraved card, inscribed Ceremony at three o’clock, or whatever the hour may be.
Announcement-cards, following the celebration of a quiet wedding, are sent out on the day of the marriage. The paper used is the same as that for the invitations.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Hudson
have the honor of announcing
the marriage of their daughter
Harriet
to
Mr. James Meade Trowbridge
on Tuesday, June the first
at the Church of The Incarnation
A combination-card of bride and groom, with their address, and perhaps her at-home day, may be inclosed with the announcement.
If, for any reason, the announcement-cards are not issued by the bride’s relatives, they may be sent out by the engaged pair, using the bride’s maiden name
Mr. George Hart Bagot
and
Miss Mary Elizabeth Peck
have the honor of announcing their marriage
on Monday, June the seventh
at the Church of The Incarnation
Albany
Unless the invitation to a wedding carries the letters R.s.v.p., it does not require any reply, but an invitation to the reception or breakfast should be acknowledged by two visiting-cards, sent to the bride’s parents, when attendance is not possible or convenient. An acceptance or declination is written in the third person, and follows the corresponding form in reference to a dinner-invitation, with the necessary verbal change, substituting, wedding-reception of their daughter, for dinner.