|
March 6, 1950 Dear !!!!!!!!! Mrs. Smedley,
I'm so delighted to learn from my husband that you've come to New York with Mr. Smedley on this trip. Frank has told me a great deal
about both of you and how kind you were to him when he was in Minneapolis.
Of course I know you're doing the town, and I hope having wonderful fun at it. We hope very much, though, that you'll be able to take time out to come here to dinner on Friday night at seven. Perhaps it will be easiest for you to telephone me at Plaza 9-5864 to let me know whether you can make it.
Looking forward with the greatest pleasure to meeting you,
Cordially,
Charlotte Adams
informal invitation to an evening party
February 9, 1950
Dear Liz:
Will you and Jimmy save Friday evening, the 18th, for a party at our house? Most informal, as usual, and we have a new game we're dying to show you.
Come, if you can, at eight-thirty.
Best,
Charlotte
Written invitations for dinner or an evening party should go out a week or ten days in advance of the date.
informal wedding invitations
When there is to be a very small wedding for only the immediate family and intimate friends, invitations may be made by telephone or informal note, exactly as they would be for dinner. These invitations should be extended by the bride's mother, or by the bride herself, from two to three weeks in advance of the date.
invitations to children's parties
In general, if children are old enough to cut, paste and write at all, let them make their own invitations. They enjoy doing it, given a little encouragement and sometimes inspiration by you. Here, again, you
must remember that their standards of perfection are not yours, nor their friends'. If you worry because the mothers of those friends may think your children's efforts messy, comfort yourself with the knowledge that the invitations are not going to the mothers and they are not sent by you. If you will let your children be children even in so minor a matter as making their own invitations, your children will eventually grow up to be delightfully social, original human beings.
In initiating a children's party the guest list must first be discussed and drawn up. Here you will have to exercise considerable tact and perhaps some authority. Duty entertaining, as we've already said, eventually becomes necessary in anyone's life. It is not an easy kind of entertaining to do, and your children may well postpone it until they have first mastered entertaining people they like. There are enough graces to acquire, even sol In helping your child not to have to invite youngsters he doesn't like to his parties, you can start by seeing that he does not accept invitations from them, thereby obligating himself just as much as an adult does.
|
