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New style invitations help set the tone for wedding

By BARBARA MAYER APNewsfeatures The invitation sets the tone for the wedding to come, so it’s not surprising that there are new styles in invitations to go along with changes in weddings. Couples who are paying for and organizing their own wedding often rewrite the standard wording form. They also may choose something more colorful than the traditional black-ink-on-ecru stock. Handwritten or computergenerated calligraphy, original artwork such as a caricature of the couple or a floral design may be reproduced on the invitations. Handmade paper, a scroll with antique lettering or a box instead of an envelope are among some

Note to singles Married men earn more money

By The Associated Press Single men looking for a raise or promotion should consider a serious option: Get married. Married men earn an average of 30.6 percent more than unmarried men, according to a University of Michigan survey. Husbands outeam bachelors in several other countries as well, said Robert Schoeni, a doctoral student at the school’s Population Studies Center in Ann Arbor, Mich. “The average earnings of married men were consistently higher than the earnings of their unmarried counterparts in all the countries we studied. The effect persisted even when education, age or experience, and race were

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ideas being used. “People who come to us want something different, not the standard engraved invitations,” says Barbara Logan of Rockville, Md., who markets a line of invitations in which rose or cornflower petals, Queen Anne’s Lace or bits of lace fabric are impregnated in handmade paper in pink, violet, blue, cream or white. The invitation itself is printed on a parchment sheet inserted under the decorative cover with ribbon or tassel. Logan says many brides are coordinating invitations, reply cards and thank-you notes to the wedding’s color theme. Prices for floral petal paper invitations start at $4 and go up to $6 for the lace. They are sold at craft

taken into account,” Schoeni said. He thinks possible reasons are that employers perceive married men as more stable and com-munity-oriented, that women tend to marry financially successful men, and that men feel more responsible, and therefore are more productive. Schoeni studied incomes in 12 countries, using data for 25- to 64-year-old males collected since 1983 by the Center for Population, Poverty and Policy Studies in Walferdange, Luxembourg. He said he found marriage had a particularly powerful effect on men’s earnings in the United States, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland.

shops and stationery stores across the country. For information, call 1 (800)-458-9143. It’s also possible to send out a wedding invitation in a plastic wine or champagne bottle, says Elaine Barker, owner of Paper Potpourri in Haverhill, Mass. The unbreakable bottle can be sent through the mail with a 45or 85-cent stamp, depending on its size. One recent order she handled was for 150 invitations screened with a watercolor, with response cards and notes for gift thankyous. Cost was about SI,OOO, she says. Reproducing a pen-and-ink sketch on the invitation might cost about $2 for each invitation, plus $l5O for the original draw-

Long-distance calls and travel fares often need to be figured into wedding expenses, according to Modem Bride, whose Decembcr-January issue looks at the phenomenon of what it calls “long-distance weddings.” The mobility of people today makes it unlikely that you’ll meet, marry and settle down in your old home town, the magazine says. The publication advises you plan far in advance so relatives and friends in distant cities will have a better chance to come, provide travel information, arrange blocks of hotel rooms at discounted rates, and try to keep costs to a minimum for participants and guests.

ing. In line with this new trend, Annie Chervin of South Salem. N.Y., created her own invitation. She drew a caricature of herself and her groom, Justin Edwards, in wedding attire for the cover and designed a map with directions to the wedding location for the back of the invitation. She wrote out the text in her own clear longhand. “I experimented with unconventional wording but went back to the traditional wording because I felt this would please both sets of parents,” she says. Since she knew how to prepare the necessary mechanical finished drawings and text she was able to deliver camera-ready material to the

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printer. Ordering and paying for 100 invitations, she was pleasantly surprised to receive 150. The cost of $l2O was well below the $286 which, according to Bride’s Magazine, is the average spent on invitations, announcements and thank-you notes. Annie saved money by asking guests to reply by telephone instead of including a reply card to be mailed. Despite innovations, don’t write off the traditional engraved invitation. It’s alive and well, says Dina Clason, senior stationery buyer at Tiffany’s in New York. “Being Tiffany’s, we are, of course, extremely traditional. We used to see more demand for unusual invitations.”

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