st your presence_
_at the marriage of their daughter_
_Myra Raymond_
_to_
_Mr._ ----,
_Thursday, February the twenty-eighth,_
_at twelve o'clock._
_Grace Church,_
_Broadway and Tenth Street._

_Mr. and Mrs._ ----
_request the honor of your presence_
_at the marriage of their daughter_
_Annie_
_to_
_Mr._ ----
_on Tuesday morning, November twenty-seventh,_
_at half past eleven o'clock._
_St. Leo's Church,_
_East Twenty-eighth Street._
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_Please present this card at_
_St. Leo's Church,_
_November twenty-seventh._

English form:

_Mr. and Mrs._ ----
_request the pleasure of_
_Lord and Lady ----'s_
_company at_
_St. Peter's, Eaton Square,_
_on Saturday, November 4th, at two o'clock,_
_on the occasion of the marriage of their daughter_
_Margaret and_ ---- ----,
_and afterward at 1 Grosvenor Square._
_R. S. V. P._
------
_Admit bearer_
_to_
_St. Peter's Church, Eaton Square,_
_on November 4th, 1895, at two o'clock._

If the bride whom a bachelor is marrying is a widow and lives in her own
house, the invitations to the church and the reception, or to either or
both, would read simply, "The pleasure of your company is requested at
the wedding," etc., with a separate card bearing the word reception and
stating the hour and address.

Should there be no guests at the wedding, and should it be conducted
very quietly or privately, it is necessary that announcement cards be
sent out after the event has taken place. These are issued in the name
of the bride's parent, parents, or guardian, who simply announce "the
marriage of their daughter [or ward] Elizabeth to Mr. Henry Smith
Walcott, Thursday, June the twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six."
In the left-hand corner is placed the address of those sending out the
cards. A card is also inclosed with the names of the newly married
couple, their address, and their reception day. Should there be neither
parents nor guardians, the parties to the contract can announce it
themselves with one card th