l decorations, within limits, are beautiful and appropriate, but
where they are so lavishly displayed as to remind more of the
florist's bill than the beauty of the blossoms, their effect is lost
in a certain vulgarity that attends all too-visible evidences of
outlay.

One pretty idea is to carry out the fancy of having one kind of
flower, massed according to the chosen design, serve for the
decorations, at flower weddings; for example, rose weddings, lily
weddings, daffodil weddings, etc. The design itself is according to
the taste of the florist or the family, and is a subject changing so
easily with the season or the fashion as to merit no mention here.

The supper may be as elegant an affair as one chooses to make it. If
served by caterers, all care is removed from the hostess as to
possible accidents, and she is left free to entertain her guests.

At evening weddings the company remains late or not, according to the
hour of the bride's departure. Sometimes dancing is arranged as one
of the evening's amusements. If so, the bride may, if she choose, open
the first quadrille with the "best man." Should she do this, the groom
is expected to dance with the first bridemaid.

The bride can slip away at any time, to reappear in traveling costume,
and bidding a quick farewell, disappear from the company, who, after
this, begin to disperse.

One most pleasant custom, English in its origin, should not be
forgotten; it is that of remembering all the servants with some little
gift as a souvenir of the occasion.

Invitations to Church Weddings.

There is a good deal of dispute in regard to the etiquette of
acknowledgment of a card for a church wedding. Some high authorities
assert that the invitation is so general and means so little
particular attention that no notice need be taken of it except in the
regular line of future visits to the bride and to the bride's mother.
But one of our American social oracles declares that a card is
obligatory at the hour of the wedding, if one cannot attend, and that
if the house address is unknown, this card should be sent to the
church. If this is necessary, most people err woefully, for few
non-attendants send the card.

For church weddings everything pertains to formality, and the
invitation as well as the ceremony is impressive in all details. The
names of the parents heading the invitation are now more often written
in full, thus insuring a good-looking line at the top of the