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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