Gifts.  The nearest members of each family
       should arrange among themselves what gifts
       to send, and thus avoid duplicates. 
       Expensive presents are sent only by most intimate
       friends, and articles of utility by relatives or
       near friends.  All gifts should be sent within
       two months of date of marriage, and should
       have thereon the woman’s maiden name,
       initial cipher, or monogram, and should be
       acknowledged by the bride at the earliest
       moment, and not later than ten days after
       her marriage.

It is not in good taste to make an ostentatious display of the gifts, and if they are exhibited, the cards of the donors should be removed, and only intimate friends invited.

       Those sending gifts should have the courtesy
       of an invitation to the wedding breakfast
       or reception.

       If any gifts are sent to the groom, they
       should bear his initial.

       A wedding invitation does not necessarily
       imply that a gift must be sent, as the sending
       of a gift is optional.

  Groom.  See Groom.

  Guests-breakfasts or receptions.  The
       invited guests leave the church for the bride’s
       residence, and there are introduced by the
       ushers to the married couple and those standing
       up with them.  If the guests are unknown to
       the ushers, they should give their names to
       one of them, who offers his left arm to the woman,
       while her escort follows and is introduced at the same time.

At the breakfast, guests are usually assigned places, but, if not, may take any seat.  Only the specially invited guests await the departure of the married couple, which ends the reception or breakfast.

       If boxes of wedding-cake are placed on a
       table, each guest takes one on his departure.

  Guests-calls.  Invited guests should call at
       least within ten days and leave their cards.

  Dress.  Broadly speaking, at a morning or afternoon
       wedding the guest wears afternoon dress,
       and at an evening wedding evening dress. 
       From the latter rule there are no deviations
       possible, but in the former there is
       greater latitude.  Thus it would be possible
       for a man to wear a black cutaway coat at
       an afternoon wedding.

  Men.  If the wraps are not left in the carriage,
       they are removed in the vestibule and are
       carried on the arm into the pew.  A man
       follows the woman, who is escorted to the
       pew by the usher.  At the end of the ceremony
       the guests should not leave until the
       immediate family have passed out.