rds should also be printed in
silver, with the words "Mr. and Mrs. White request the pleasure of
Mr. and Mrs. Black's company at dinner to celebrate their Silver
Wedding," etc.

For a dance the invitations should be worded "Mr. and Mrs. White at
home, To celebrate their Silver Wedding." "Dancing" printed in the
corner of the card.

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=Each person invited= is expected to send a present in silver, costly
or trifling as the case may be, whether the invitation is accepted or
not. These presents should be exhibited in the drawing-room on the day
of the Silver Wedding with a card attached to each bearing the name of
the giver.

At the afternoon reception the husband and wife receive the
congratulations of their friends as they arrive. They enter the tea-room
together almost immediately afterwards followed by those guests who have
arrived. Refreshments are served as at an afternoon wedding tea. (See
page 143) A large wedding-cake is placed in the centre of the table,
and the wife makes the first cut in it as a bride would do. The health
of the husband and wife is then proposed by one of the guests, drunk in
champagne, and responded to by the husband.

At the dinner-party the husband and wife go in to dinner together,
followed by their guests, who are sent in according to precedency.
The health of the husband and wife is proposed at dessert and responded
to. A wedding-cake occupies a prominent place on the table, and
the dinner-table decorations consist of white flowers interspersed
with silver.

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=At the Silver Wedding dance=, the husband and wife dance the first
dance together, and subsequently lead the way into the supper-room
arm-in-arm, and later on their health is proposed by the principal guest
present.

The wife should wear white and silver, or grey and silver.

In the country, when a Silver Wedding is celebrated, the festivities
sometimes range over three days, but this only in the case of prominent
and wealthy people; balls, dinners, and school-treats being given, in
which the neighbours, tenants, villagers and servants take part.

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=Golden Weddings.=--The celebration of a Golden Wedding is rather an
English custom, and one that from circumstances can be but seldom
observed. It denotes that fifty years of married life have passed over
the heads of husband and wife, and is a solemn ra