Guests who are not invited to the breakfast or reception should not take offense, as the number present on such occasions is necessarily limited.  These guests may seat themselves or are seated by the ushers, but not in the pews reserved for the family and specially invited guests.

  Women.  No one should be present at a wedding
       in mourning, and it should be laid aside temporarily
       even by the mother, who wears
       purple velvet or silk.  Women on entering
       the church take the usher’s left arm, and are
       escorted to the pew, while their escort follows
       behind.

If they are immediate members of the family or are specially invited guests, they should give their names to the usher that he may seat them in the places reserved for them.

  Hats of groom and of best man.  To do
       away with the possibility of the best man
       having to take care of the hats of groom and
       best man during the wedding ceremony, it
       is a good plan for both groom and best man
       to leave them in the vestry, and to have them
       carried out to the front of the church, ready
       for them at the end of the ceremony.

  Home See Home Weddings.

  Host. See Father of Bride.

  Hostess.  See Mother of Bride.

  Hours.  Any hour from nine in the morning to
       nine in the evening is appropriate.

The morning hours are usually selected for quiet home affairs; twelve o’clock, or high noon, is still considered as the fashionable hour, while from three to six is the hour most convenient for all concerned.

       Evening weddings are not very convenient,
       chiefly because it is not as easy to handle the
       details as in the daytime.

  Invitations.  The woman’s parents, guardians,
       or others give the wedding, send out the invitations,
       and bear all the expense of engraving and sending
       out the same.  They are issued in the name of the
       one giving the wedding, and should be sent to
       near-by friends about twenty days in advance of
       the wedding day and earlier to out-of-town friends. 
       With them are sent the invitation to the wedding
       breakfast or reception, and also the card of
       admission to the church.

The groom should supply a list of names of such persons as he desires to have present, designating his preference for those to be present at the breakfast or reception.

In addressing wedding invitations, two envelopes are used.  The inner one, unsealed, bears the name only of the person addressed, and is enclosed in another envelope, sealed, bearing the address of the person invited.

       Parents should, of course, order these
       invitations of a fashionable dealer in stationery,
       that good taste may be observed.