| On Her Wedding Day | [Frontispiece] |
| PAGE | |
| Church Decorated for a Formal Wedding | [62] |
| An Altar for a Home Wedding | [142] |
| Decorations for a Wedding in a Small Church | [190] |
PART I
"The power of manners is incessant—an element as unconcealable as fire. The nobility cannot in any country be disguised, and no more in a republic or a democracy than in a kingdom. There are certain manners which are learned in good society, of that force that, if a person have them, he or she must be considered, and is everywhere welcome, though without beauty, or wealth, or genius."
—From Emerson's Essays.
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION TO ETIQUETTE
WHAT IS ETIQUETTE?