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2. Wedding invitation - Wikipedia

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   Wedding invitation. A wedding invitation is a letter asking the recipient to attend a wedding. It is typically written in the formal, third-person language and mailed five to eight weeks before the wedding date. Like any other invitation, it is the privilege and duty of the host—historically, for younger brides in Western culture, the mother ...

3. Letterpress printing - Wikipedia

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   Letterpress printing is a technique of relief printing for producing many copies by repeated direct impression of an inked, raised surface against individual sheets of paper or a continuous roll of paper. [1] A worker composes and locks movable type into the "bed" or "chase" of a press, inks it, and presses paper against it to transfer the ink ...

4. RSVP - Wikipedia

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   RSVP is an initialism derived from the French phrase "Répondez s'il vous plaît", [1] meaning "Please respond" (literally "Respond, if it pleases you" ), to require confirmation of an invitation. The initialism "RSVP" is no longer used much in France, where it is considered formal and old-fashioned. In France, it is now more common to use ...

5. Victorian letter writing guides - Wikipedia

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   A letter's physical appearance, in addition to its content, was a concern for letter-writing guides. For men, guides advocated plain paper and for women, a light spritz of perfume was sometimes acceptable. [1] Other sources, however, disagreed and suggested high outward ornamentation such as ribbons, flowery drawings, and interesting colors ...

6. Post-nominal letters - Wikipedia

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   Post-nominal letters, also called post-nominal initials, post-nominal titles, designatory letters or simply post-nominals, are letters placed after a person's name to indicate that the individual holds a position, an academic degree, accreditation, an office, a military decoration, or honour, or is a member of a religious institute or fraternity.

7. Banns of marriage - Wikipedia

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   The banns of marriage, commonly known simply as the " banns " or " bans " / ˈbænz / (from a Middle English word meaning "proclamation", rooted in Frankish and thence in Old French ), [1] are the public announcement in a Christian parish church, or in the town council, of an impending marriage between two specified persons.