Trousseau Monogram Etiquette

Earlier generations of women worked for years, almost from the time a daughter was born, to prepare the linen against her wedding day; and, obviously, it was impossible to know the groom's last name. – Above, “Mopsy.” Mopsy was a popular comic that started in 1939 and ran for several decades as a syndicated newspaper comic strip.

By the principle that rules the whole wedding tradition, all the bride's linen and silver should be marked, if at all, with her maiden initials. In the matter of the trousseau, there is an even more practical reason for it: Earlier generations of women worked for years, almost from the time a daughter was born, to prepare the linen against her wedding day; and, obviously, it was impossible to know the groom's last name. Cynics have suggested a modern reason, too— the eventuality of divorce— but anyone who marks a trousseau with this in mind should clearly not be getting married. — From Vogue’s Book of Etiquette, 1948

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