m may be:

(C)

_The Honour of Your Presence is Requested
At the Marriage of
Mrs. Dorothy Evans Brewster
and
Mr. Leonard Duncan
On Thursday, April the Third
At Six o'Clock
Trinity Chapel_

In formal invitations "honour" is spelled with a "u."

_Recalling an Invitation_

The wedding may have to be postponed or solemnized privately, owing to
illness or death, or it may be put off altogether. In such an event the
invitations will have to be recalled. The card recalling may or may not
give a reason, according to circumstances. The cards should be engraved
if time permits, but they may have to be written.

Convenient forms are:

(A)

_Owing to the Death of Mr.
Philip Brewster's Mother,
Mr. and Mrs. Evans beg to
Recall the Invitations for
Their Daughter's Wedding on
Monday, June the Eighth._

[Illustration: Specimen of wedding announcement]

(B)

_Mr. and Mrs. John Evans beg to Recall
The Invitations for the Marriage of
Their Daughter, Dorothy, and Mr. Philip
Brewster, on Monday, June the Eighth_

_Wedding announcements_

If a wedding is private, no formal invitations are sent out; they are
unnecessary, for only a few relatives or intimate friends will be
present and they will be asked by word of mouth or by a friendly note.
The wedding may be formally announced by cards mailed on the day of the
wedding. The announcement will be made by whoever would have sent out
wedding invitations--by parents, a near relative, or by the bride and
groom, according to circumstances. The custom with the bride's name in
the case of a widow or divorcee follows that of wedding invitations. An
engraved announcement is not acknowledged (although a letter of
congratulations--see page 101--may often be sent). A card is sent to the
bride's parents or whoever has sent the announcements. The announcement
may be in the following form:

_Mr. and Mrs. John Evans
Announce the Marriage of Their Daughter
Dorothy
to
Mr. Philip Brewster
On Monday, June the Tenth
One Thousand Nineteen Hundred and Twenty-Two_

_Replying to the invitation_

The acceptance or the declination of a formal invitation is necessarily
formal but naturally has to be written by hand. It is better to use
doubl