Three Months Before The Wedding

Set wedding date Engage Minister Arrange for church Engage hotel or club for reception Decide on wedding color scheme Wedding dress and veil Select your wedding attendants and their costumes Bride's attendants: Maid or Matron-¯Of-Honor; Bridesmaids, Flower Girl or Ring Bearer

Two Months Before The Wedding

Invitation lists Order wedding and reception invitations, announcements and thank-you notes. Arrange for music and flowers Engage photographer

Six Weeks Before The Wedding

Address wedding invitations Consult caterer. Order wedding cake, Select present for groom and for bride's attendants.

Three Weeks Before The Wedding

Have your wedding dress and veil ready. Check attendants' apparel, and see that everything is finished.

Last Week Before The Wedding

Sew wedding ring to pillow, (if having a ring bearer). Plan wedding rehearsal. Groom's parents give rehearsal dinner.

Three Months Before The Wedding

Select best man and ushers Give wedding invitation, reception and announcement lists to bride. Decide where honeymoon will be spent and make reservations.

Six Weeks Before The Wedding

Select wedding ring with aid of bride. Arrange bachelor dinner Choose gift for bride and best man.

Three Weeks Before The Wedding

Order flowers for bride, best man, ushers , bride's mother, groom's mother.

Traditional wedding paper is a white, ivory or cream-colored double sheet, sometimes plain, sometimes panelled, but always of the finest quality stock. Two envelopes are customarily used: the inner to enclose the invitation (or announcement) and also the accompanying cards; the outer for protection of the enclosure and addressing. A large, folded square is used for the very ultra-formal ceremony, and a smaller size for the less formal wedding. It is permissible to have the return address embossed on the flap of the outside envelope.

The invitation (or announcement) proper occupies only the first page, leaving the others blank. English Script, Shaded Roman and St. James Script are among the most traditional engraving styles being used today. Order the envelopes sent to you early so that ample time is allowed for hand-addressing . (Typing is Never correct!.) "Request the honour of your presence" is the form for church wedding invitations. (The word "Honour" is spelled with a "u".) "Request the pleasure of your company" is the correct wording for a home, club or hotel wedding since the invitations include the reception following the ceremony. Because initials do not in all cases clearly identify, first names should appear in full. Nicknames are never used on invitations. No abbreviations of titles, other than that of Mr. and Mrs., or Dr., should appear. If space permits, "Junior" should be written in full. The tissues, which are placed in invitations or announcements by the engraver, are usually left in to protect the engraving; however, they may be removed if you prefer. All invitations should be mailed at the same time, and should be three to four weeks in advance of your wedding day.

A certain degree of formality is required when answering a wedding invitation. An invitation to the church alone requires no answer whatsoever, unless the wedding is so small that the invitation is a handwritten note. An invitation to the reception or breakfast is answered on the first page of a sheet of note paper and, although it is written by hand, the space allowed between each word must simulate that of engraving, according to Emily Post.

This is the form of acceptance:

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gray accept with pleasure Mr. and Mrs. Jones' kind invitation for Saturday, the twentieth of

February The regret reads:

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gray regret that they are unable to accept

Mr. and Mrs. Jones' kind invitation for Saturday, the twentieth of February

It is entirely proper for a wife or husband to take for granted the fact that one alone will be welcome at a general wedding reception, and to subsequently send an acceptance worded as follows:

Mrs. Robert Gray Accepts With Pleasure Mr. and Mrs. Jones' kind invitation for Saturday, the twentieth of

February but regrets that Mr. Gray will be absent at that time.

The same wording sent by the husband would merely transpose "Mr." and "Mrs.".

Thank - You Notes Should Be Sent in Three Weeks

Even if the bride does not know the sender of a wedding gift, (who may be a friend of her husband's), she must write a thank-you note. A gift should be acknowledged just as soon as possible -– within two or three weeks, certainly, say etiquette authorities.

At a large wedding, where hundreds of gifts must be personally acknowledged, an engraved card may be sent immediately upon receipt of the gift. It reads:

Miss Betty Jones Wishes to acknowledge the receipt of your wedding gift and will write a personal note of appreciation at an early date.

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