Formal Writing 강의안 6주
Chapter 6
Social notes and invitations
All wedding invitations are worded in the third person, and their answers of acceptance or regret are invariably written by hand n this same form. The words must be placed on specified lines and centered as evenly as possible. Names of hosts belong on the first line, the “request the pleasure of” on the second, the name of the guest on the third, and so on.
Invitation is to the largest and most elaborate of weddings consist of an invitation to the church ceremony, a “pew card,”
and an invitation to the reception. But many variations are possible and perfectly correct, as we shall see.
When a guest expected to attend the church service only, no invitation to the reception is enclosed.
If the wedding is to be in a very small church or chapel and the reception in a very big house or club, then many will receive invitations to the reception and few to the ceremony.
If it happens that not only the church but also the reception is limited to a small number who are sent handwritten invitations or are given oral invitations, then engraved announcements may be sent in place of invitations to the friends who could not be included as well as to acquaintances who would have been invited to a larger wedding.
The invitations to a large wedding are sent three weeks beforehand; those to a simpler wedding can be mailed as late as ten days before the wedding day.
Correct style of wedding invitations
Correct invitations to any wedding, whatever its size, are engraved on the first page of a double sheet of paper, ivory or white, either plain or with a raised margin called a plate- mark or panel. The engraving may be in whichever lettering style the bride prefers. The invitation may be about 51/2 inches wide by 7% inches deep, or slightly smaller, and it is folded once for insertion into its envelope. Or it may be about 41/2 by 53/4 inches and go into the envelope without folding.
Two envelopes are used with wedding invitations. The inner envelope has no mucilage on the flap and is addressed to Mr.
and Mr. Brown with neither first name no address. It is put into
an outer “mailing envelope,” addressed side toward the flap.
This envelope is then addressed by hand.
The names of children under thirteen are written on the inner envelope, “Joan, Robvetrt, and Frederick,” and inserted in an envelope addressed to Miss and the Messrs. Greatlake” or
“Miss Joan Greatlake” and below “Robert and Frederick Greatlake.”
In all formal correspondence it is incorrect to abbreviate the address. Neither does one use initials for the first name- “Mr.
and Mrs. Harold T. James” is correct rather than “Mr. and Mrs.
H. T. James.” When the middle name is known, that should be written out also: “Mr. and Mr. Harold Taylor James.”
When every member of a family under one roof is included in the invitation, the envelope may be addressed: Mr. and MRs.
Joseph Truehart and Family
