Etiquette for Declining Invite

 I would like to emphasize your point that the bride was correct to invite both you and your husband although she only knew you. The same would hold true for a business friend of your husband.

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Dear Mrs. Tobin:

I am the girls' adviser in a large high school. When some of my former students marry they send an invitation to my husband and me. I know that this is the correct thing to do but my husband doesn't know the bride-to-be and is bored at the wedding and reception. He is perfectly willing to have me go and I really want to at- tend these functions. How do I word my RSVP to let the mother of the bride know I will be there but my husband will not? – Margaret G. 

Dear Margaret G.: 

The following is the correct form to use:

Mrs. John Phillip Jones accepts with pleasure the kind invitation of Mr. and Mrs. Brown to the wedding and reception of their daughter on Wednesday the eighth of June at four o'clock St. Peter's Church but regrets that Mr. Jones will be unable to attend.

I would like to emphasize your point that the bride was correct to invite both you and your husband although she only knew you. The same would hold true for a business friend of your husband. You would be invited to the wedding too. – By Riv Tobin Copley News Service, 1975

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