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followed by a breakfast at the bride's home, are sometimes cast in the English form. In this form the wedding invitation is engraved on a double sheet and then in smaller lettering at the bottom of the page is added, and afterward at breakfast, followed by the address of the bride's parents.
In event of a home wedding, the invitations are engraved as for a church ceremony, but in place of the sentence, the honor of your presence, the phrase, the pleasure of your company is subÂstituted. For a home wedding, where the marriage ceremony is to be performed in the presence only of the immediate families concerned and to be folÂlowed by a large reception, the invitations issued take this form:
202 Encyclopedia of Etiquette
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brewster Dean
request the pleasure of your company
at the wedding reception of their daughter
Lydia Madeline
and
Mr. John Richardson
on the afternoon of Monday, the first of April
at four o'clock
Twenty-one Beech Street
Along with these reception cards sent to special friends whose presence
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