From the Library of Congress, 1919.
What Will Mrs. Thompson Say?
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Would you like to answer these questions about engagements and weddings? This is Double Points Friday, so you can pick up 2 points for every correct answer. (One answer for each question, please.) Except for the methods of wedding introduction examples. If you are willing to tackle them and get any of them right, you will earn 10 points for each proper introduction. To help you out a little, how do you verbally introduce a man and a woman, boys to each other, or girls, women and men. Mrs. Thompson will also be answering a question that wasn't asked. Who is always presented to each other? A younger woman to an older one, or an older woman to a younger one? Five points if you get that one right. Don't forget the women's coats question. We might as well make that one worth 5 points also. Have fun.
Oh boy, here goes.
Yes, you can and should wear your engagement ring for the full length of the engagement, even if it is a long one.
In general, men go down the aisle before women: grooms first, then best man, then (in the old days iirc) the mother of the bride if she is not escorting the bride with the bride's father, then the bridesmaids, matron of honor, the bride, and a ringbearer or flowergirl if they are part of the processional.
Bride and groom are always presented to each other when/if the bride is "given away."
Younger people are introduced to older people, men to women, boys to each other, girls to each other, and boys to girls.
I think Mrs. Thompson will say that the newly married couple should be introduced as Mr. and Mrs. XXX.
Lastly, no, coats will be more slimmed down this season, we are about to head into the roaring twenties, after all!
Whew! This was from memory, I'm not sure what I got right and what I didn't, it's been a long time since I have attended a traditional wedding.