etc.  But the announcement of the marriage of a widow of maturer years is engraved on note paper and reads: 

Mrs. Priscilla Barnes Leaming
and
Mr. Worthington Adams
have the honour to announce their marriage
on Monday the second of November
at Saratoga Springs
New York

=CARDS OF ADDRESS=

If the bride and groom wish to inform their friends of their future address (especially in cities not covered by the Social Register), it is customary to enclose a card with the announcement: 

Mr. and Mrs. Worthington Adams

          will be at home

      after the first of December

     at Twenty-five Alderney Place

Or merely their visiting card with their new address in the lower right corner: 

    Mr. and Mrs. Worthington Adams

25 Alderney Place

=INVITATION TO WEDDING ANNIVERSARY=

For a wedding anniversary celebration, the year of the wedding and the present year are usually stamped across the top of an invitation.  Sometimes the couple’s initials are added.

1898-1922

Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Johnson

request the pleasure of

[HW:  Mr. & Mrs. ILLEGIBLE]

company at the

Twenty-fifth Anniversary of their marriage

on Wednesday the first of June

at nine o’clock

Twenty-four Austin Avenue

R.s.v.p.

=ANSWERING A WEDDING INVITATION=

An invitation to the church only requires no answer whatever.  An invitation to the reception or breakfast is answered on the first page of a sheet of note paper, and although it is written “by hand” the spacing of the words must be followed as though they were engraved.  This is the form of acceptance: 

    Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gilding, Jr.,
        accept with pleasure
    Mr. and Mrs. John Huntington Smith’s
        kind invitation for
     Tuesday the first of June

The regret reads: 

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Brown
regret that they are unable to accept
Mr. and Mrs. John Huntington Smith’s
kind invitation for
Tuesday the first of June

=OTHER FORMAL INVITATIONS=

All other formal invitations are engraved (never printed) on cards of thin white matte Bristol board, either plain or plate-marked like those for wedding reception cards.  Note paper such as that used for wedding invitations is occasionally, but rarely, preferred.

Monograms, addresses, personal devices are not used on engraved invitations.

The size of the card of invitation varies with personal preference from four and a half to six inches in width, and from three to four and a half inches in height.  The most graceful proportion is three units in height to four in width.

The lettering is a matter of personal choice, but the plainer the design, the better.  Scrolls and ornate trimmings are bad taste always.  Punctuation is used only after each letter of the R.s.v.p. and it is absolutely correct to use small letters for the s.v.p.  Capitals R.S.V.P. are permissible; but fastidious people prefer “R.s.v.p.”