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  • Here Comes the Stork: Baby Shower Invitations
    The chief purpose for hosting a baby shower is to regale the mother-to-be with gifts for the newborn or expected baby. These gifts include baby diapers, clothes, toys, and so forth. Baby showers were historically uncommon, and if they were held, only the expecting mother and her female relatives and friends would attend. However, baby showers have become more common nowadays, and men are starting to accept baby shower invitations as well.
  • Re-Inventing the Letterpress Invitation
    When you check your mail, you will inevitably receive a pile of unwanted bills, chance offers for magazines, and coupons. Once in a blue moon, you might actually receive a piece from an actual human being. You will notice these are well-crafted, nicely made letters and invitations. Notice the paper, with crisp, raised lettering seemingly crafted from an exclusive boutique.
  • Anticipating Birthday Invitations
    Marking human birthdays has a long history. Of course, the tradition does not date back to the dawn of human history-understanding of lunar cycles and a calendar is required, naturally-but there have been festivities surrounding birthdays for hundreds of years. Many royals loved to throw parties for themselves. These were enormous fetes. Birthdays were not necessarily restricted to the high born, however. In some pagan societies, evil spirits were thought to stalk the birthday boy or girl. To ward them off, well-wishers surrounded the honoree for protection and made a lot of noise. Surprisingly, this sounds an awful lot like some modern birthday bashes!
  • Dinnerware: Making Meals Into Events
    At the dawn of what most historians agree is the modern world, the years between 1815 and 1830, the most lavish dinner in the best homes in England consisted of only two courses?paltry by our standards. Of course, each course commonly consisted of twenty-five different dishes spread all over the table! The first course consisted of soups, trays laden with meats of all kind, whole fish, pies, and vegetables. The second course was ?lighter??deer, ham. roast goose, puddings and sweets. The Diners ?skirmished? among the serving pieces, taking a bit of everything.
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