Invitation Wording For Special Circumstances: Spouse Deceased
The parents of the bride announce the wedding, even though the bride is a widow.
In that case the inscription must take this form :
Mr. and Mrs. Julian Blanke
Request the honor of your presence
at the marriage of their daughter
Mary Louisa Craig
with
Mr. John Victor Reynolds
Or
Parents would announce the remarriage of their widowed daughter:
Mr. and Mrs. James Daylon Parker
have the honour (or pleasure) to announce
the marriage of their daughter
Dorothy
(Mrs. Harold de Peyster)
to
Mr. John Baird Livingston
on Tuesday, June the eleventh, Nineteen hundred
Etc.
If a widow remarries, and her parents are not making the announcement her name is accompanied by the prefix “Mrs.”
When the contracting parties are both widowed, they themselves send the announcement of their marriage, it reads:
Mrs. Marian Bronson
and
Mr. Warren Atherton
have the honour to announce their marriage
on Tuesday, January the second
at twelve o’clock
Grace Church
Etc.
Or
MR. JOHN WILLIAM DOE
AND
MRS. JAMES EGBERT HOWLAND
ANNOUNCE THEIR MARRIAGE
ON MONDAY, AUGUST THE ELEVENTH
The remarriage of a widow is usually simple and informal, and not in white wedding gown and veil, which is the symbol of first marriage.
Her own children may attend her if she wishes. She may write personal notes as invitations and announcements, using her full name.
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