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PART III.

ETIQUETTE OF SPECIAL CEREMONIALS.

CHAPTER I.

WEDDING ETIQUETTE.

FIRST in importance among special ceremonials comes the wedding. It is the culminating point of happiness in life, to which all before it tends, from which all afterward recedes.

So varied are the circumstances under which weddings take place and so numerous are the religious forms observed in their solemnization that it is impossible to lay down strict rules applicable to all cases.

Therefore it is expedient to describe that form of marriage which recognizes the fullest forms and the greatest number of attendant ceremonials, and all others can be modeled more or less after it, as the needs of the occasion require.

Fixing the Day.

It is the lady's privilege to fix the wedding-day.

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