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WEDDING INVITATIONS
37

The pleasure of your company is requested
at the marriage of
Miss Marian Benson Joyce
to
Mr. John H. Brown
on Monday, the fifth of June
at twelve o'clock
at the residence of
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Smith Hopkins
Eighteen Johns Street


WHEN CARDS AEE ENCLOSED

When a church wedding is followed by a reception or breakfast, special engraved cards are enclosed with the invitations to those guests whose presence is desired. It may be a very small card, inscribed merely with these words:

Reception
from four o'clock
Forty-six Lafayette Street

For the wedding breakfast a card of this kind is usually enclosed:

Mr. and Mrs. John Hay
request the pleasure of
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
company, at breakfast
on Thursday, the fifth of May
at twelve o'clock