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DEAR MISS MANNERS: My beloved and I are planning a small, intimate wedding. Rather than engage a printer, I am planning to handwrite letters to each invited guest, sharing the details of the celebration and asking them to attend. My mother is concerned that the lack of a formal printed invitation would be seen as a breach in etiquette.
Can you please advise us? GENTLE READER: Back whenever engraving was invented, it would have been considered a breach of etiquette to use it instead of handwriting. And Miss Manners assures you that the hand still outranks the mechanical process, no matter how expensive. As this is an intimate wedding, you need not mimic the formal, third-person wording but, if you prefer, simply write first-person letters stating your wish to have them attend.
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