Annabel Jayne
Creating The Right Impression
Etiquette
Debrett’s wedding guide is largely considered the authoritative guide to etiquette and social style. It depicts the fine distinction between ‘getting it not quite right’ and ‘getting it absolutely right’ on your big day and this is the reason why even since the middle ages, people have given much thought into the way that such an important announcement as a wedding is to be made.
Prior to the invention of the printing press in 1447, the publication of a wedding was made by the town crier.
He would walk the streets calling details of the announcement and all those within earshot were considered formally invited to the wedding and enjoyed the celebrations therewith.
A tradition we think you’ll agree, is inappropriate today.
Whilst illiteracy was widespread during the middle ages, the ‘wedding notice’ was born amongst the upper class.
Wealthy families would commission monks to adorn their notices with calligraphy and family crests.
A sealing wax would be used and this is a design that is sometimes still used today.
The ordinary printing technique of the first press was deemed inapt of such a significant item as the wedding invitation, therefore the announcing of a wedding in the newspaper began and evolved through the period of engraving and on into lithographic printing.
It wasn’t until after World War II when, a rapid industrial growth enabled the normal man to mimic the lifestyle of society’s elite with what we consider to be the ‘traditional wedding invitation’.
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