Women.  Women wear street costume, including
       gloves, the latter being taken off at table. 
       Women remove their coats and wraps, but
       not bonnets.

Guests should leave half an hour after breakfast.  A call is not necessary after a simple breakfast, but obligatory after a formal one.

  Wedding.  See wedding receptions or breakfasts.

Breaking dinner engagements.  When it is absolutely
       necessary to break an engagement made for
       a dinner, a letter should be sent as soon as
       possible to the hostess, either by special delivery
       or messenger, giving the reason and
       expressing regrets.

  Bride.  The bride selects the church and the clergyman,
       and can, if she wishes, ask the latter
       personally or by note to perform the ceremony. 
       She selects the music for the ceremony
       and the organist, names the wedding
       day, and selects the ushers and the bridesmaids. 
       Of the bridesmaids, she may select
       one, some near friend, as the maid of honor,
       to act for her, as the best man does for the
       groom.

She further designates one of the ushers to be master of ceremonies, and should instruct him minutely as to the details she desires carried out-how the wedding party shall enter the church, proceed up the aisle, etc.

A few days before the wedding she gives a dinner to the bridesmaids and maid of honor, who take this opportunity to examine the trousseau.  The ushers, best man, and groom may come after the dinner to attend the wedding rehearsal.  These rehearsals should be gone through carefully, and if they can be held at the church so much the better.  Each person should be instructed by note as to their duties, as this prevents confusion.

  Church.  On the wedding-day, after receiving
       the bridesmaids and maid of honor at her
       house, she goes to the church with her father
        (or nearest male relative), and leans upon his
       arm as they proceed up the aisle, following
       the bridesmaids, and carrying her bridal bouquet
        (or, if she wishes, a prayer-book).

Arriving at the chancel, she leaves her father and steps forward to take the left arm of the groom, who advances from the chancel to meet her.  They stand before the clergyman, and, if they wish, may kneel, and upon rising stand about a foot apart.

At the words of the ceremony, “Who giveth this woman away?” or, “To be married to this man?” her father advances and places her right hand in that of the clergyman, who places it in the groom’s right hand.  After this her father retires to his seat in the pew with his family.

When the plighting of the troth comes,