ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

In the preparation of this book, many professionals and experts have generously given advice and comments in order that the material might be accurate and interesting.

To my friend, Miss Katharine Gault, Division of General Educa­tion, New York University, I should like to offer special thanks for her wonderful assistance throughout the entire book.

I am grateful to the following clergymen for editing the sections pertaining to procedure of the wedding in their particular faiths: Rev. Gregory R. P. Adair, Cathedral of Our Saviour, New York City, for procedure in the Eastern Orthodox Church (Holy Eastern Ortho­dox Catholic Apostolic Church), The Russian Orthodox Church, The Greek Orthodox Church, and The Rumanian Orthodox Church —also for supplying excerpts from The Service Book of the Holy Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Church (compiled and translated by Isobel Hapgood); The Rev. Dr. Edgar S. Brown, Jr., Th.D„ Director, Department of Worship, The United Lutheran Church in America, New York City; Dr. Lovett Dewees, member of the Committee on Family Relationships of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, for procedure of the Friends or Quaker weddings—also for supplying excerpts from Faith and Practice of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of The Re­ligious Society of Friends, 1955; The Reverend Timothy J. Flynn, Bureau of Information, Archdiocese of New York; Rabbi Fabian Schonfeld, Rabbinical Council of America, New York City; Mr. Joseph Fielding Smith, Recorder, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon), Salt Lake City; Rev. Dr. Theodore Cuyler Speers, Central Presbyterian Church, New York City; The Reverend Edward N. West, D.D., Canon Sacrist of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City.

General Charles W. Christenberry, Christian Science Committee on Publication, New York City, edited the information about his church. My thanks go to Rev. Dr. Edwin O. Kennedy, Secretary,

Union Theological Seminary, New York City, for his permission to use the story of his daughter's wedding.

Miss Isabel McGovern of The New York Herald Tribune Food Staff compiled all of the Menus and Recipes.

My thanks go to Mr. Thomas A. Lenane, director of the Marriage License Bureau, City Clerk's Office, New York City, for information concerning the essentials in obtaining the marriage license.

I wish to acknowledge the cooperation of several firms in supplying material on Invitations and Announcements: Brentano's, 586 Fifth Avenue, New York City; Saks Fifth Avenue, 611 Fifth Avenue, New York City; Tiffany and Company, Fifth Avenue at 57th Street, New York City.

To the bridegroom, Arthur C. Vogel, and his best man and brother, Warren E. Vogel, my thanks for permission to repeat the toasts they created and offered at Arthur's wedding in New York recently. Some other toasts were quoted from a book, Toasts, by Margaret Waters, with permission from Grosset & Dunlap, Inc., Publishers, New York,

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In the chapter on The Trousseau are quotations from a book, Beautiful Silver: Its Use and Care, with permission of the author and publisher, J. A. Wright and Co., makers of Wrights Silver Cream, Keene, New Hampshire, 1951; also from Money Management, Your Clothing Dollar, copyright by Household Finance Corporation with permission of The Money Management Institute of The Household Finance Corporation, Chicago, 1956; from a pamphlet, There's Ro­mance in China, with permission of the author and publisher, Theo­dore Haviland and Co., New York, 1950; from a booklet, The Art of Making Fine Glassware, with permission of the author and publisher, The Cambridge Glass Company, Cambridge, Ohio, 1956.

In the chapter on Wedding Plans are quotations reprinted from Champagne Makes a Party, with special permission from The Taylor Wine Company, Inc., Hammondsport, New York, 1956.

In the supplements on Wedding Invitations and Announcements are quotations reprinted from Approved Forms for Engraved Sta­tionery, edited by Stephen Clarke, with special permission from Crane & Company, Inc., Dalton, Mass.

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