A "QUIET" WEDDING

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 13, 15 July 1936, Page 17

A "QUIET" WEDDING

NEGLECTED FRIENDS

AN EXCELLENT PLAN

"We want a quiet wedding with nobody present excepting our nearest and dearest."

That remark is not infrequent nowadays, and often it is the prospective bride who makes it. She does not realise that a small quiet wedding is almost impossible, unless both bride and bridegroom are friendless and the | marriage is solemnised abroad, says a writer in the London "Daily Telegraph."

Suppose the engaged couple determine to keep the wedding party small; there are her parents and his, sisters and brothers who cannot be left out, perhaps a favourite aunt and two or three intimate friends whose presence is desired.

Trouble then begins. If the bride invites one friend to the wedding there are others who feel neglected and show it. If the beloved Aunt Mary is invited, Aunt Jane will be in a huff because she was not asked, too. If Aunt Jane is included there is an aunt of the bridegroom who cannot be left out because she has already sent a generous wedding present. DIFFICULTIES- INCREASE. The difficulties —and • the invited | guests—increase in number and in the end there .is a large wedding and a large bill for expenses for the. bride's father to pay. •■■";■ .. ;; ' Here is a solution to the difficulties: Have the wedding at an early hour— for instance, 9.30 a.m.—with the excuse that the young couple must leave in the morning for their honeymoon. Send out invitations as usual, but only to members of the families and to dear friends. Some of them will come. For all the olhex-s have engraved announcement cards with the new address of the happily married, to be posted a day or two after the, wedding, together with a small photograph of the bride and bridegroom taken immediately after the ceremony*,. ■ The idea of sending ;abspht friends a photograph of toe bridal couple, or the wedding i group, instead of a piece of wedding cake, was launched this > season with success. Rostcard-size ■ prints framed in a silver bordered ! mount cost little more than the ■ traditional crumbs of cake tied up in ' a box. The accompanying announcei ment may be worded thus: ' Mr. A. Blank and Mrs. BDtohk (nee Mary Smith), who were married • quietly on May —, 1936, will be glad s to see.you at No. 1 Mayfair Square, • S.W., after June 15. [ FASHIONABLE WAY. 1 This is a more ingratiating and ; fashionably informal way of announc- ; ing a marriage than the usual engraved 1 card sent out by the bride's parmts. 1 One couple who tried the above plan - were delighted with its success.' This f was after a sister's conventional ■marriage which gave her mother >a'nerr vous breakdown, alienated friends Who r were not invited, and resulted in such f bother and fatigue fpr the bride s(nd i bridegroom that it took the -whole fiorte> night of their honeymoon for them' sto recover. ". .-■ !