Mr. and Mrs. Jameson Greatlake, 24 Michigan Avenue, Chicago.
To those who are only "asked to the church" no house invitation is enclosed.
The proper form for an invitation to a church ceremony is:
Mr. and Mrs. John Huntington Smith request the honour of your presence at the marriage of their daughter Mary Katherine to Mr. James Smartlington on Tuesday the first of November at twelve o'clock at St. John's Church in the City of New York
Mr. and Mrs. John Huntington Smith request the honour of [HW: Miss Pauline Town's] presence at the marriage of their daughter Mary Katherine to Mr. James Smartlington on Tuesday the first of November at twelve o'clock at St. John's Church
(_The size of invitations is 5-1/8 wide by 7-3/8 deep._)
(_When the parents issue the invitations for a wedding at a house other than their own._)
presence at the marriage of their daughter
No variation is permissible in the form of a wedding invitation. Whether fifty guests are to be invited or five thousand, the paper, the engraving and the wording, and the double envelope are precisely the same.
In cities or wherever the general public is not to be admitted, a card of about the size of a small visiting card is enclosed with the church invitation:
Please present this card, at St. John's Church on Tuesday the first of November
To the family and very intimate friends who are to be seated in especially designated pews:
Please present this to an usher Pew No. on Thursday the ninth of May
Engraved pew cards are ordered only for very big weddings where twenty or more pews are to be reserved. The more usual custom--at all small and many big weddings--is for the mother of the bride, and the mother of the bridegroom each to write on her personal visiting card:
A card for the reserved enclosure but no especial pew is often inscribed "Within the Ribbons."
The invitation to the breakfast or reception following the church ceremony is engraved on a card to match the paper of the church invitation and is the size of the latter after it is folded for the envelope:
company on Tuesday the first of November at half after four o'clock at Four West Thirty-sixth Street
=CEREMONY AND RECEPTION INVITATION IN ONE=
Occasionally, especially for a country wedding, the invitation to the breakfast or the reception is added to the one to the ceremony:
