The Grossman/Bansen Certificate The antique style of illuminated manuscripts used to embelish the capital letters at the beginning of each
line complements well the formal language of the traditional Quaker wedding certificate. The wording is traditional Quaker language taken straight out of the most traditional New England Faith
and Practice and is probably almost identical in phrasing to the certificates used by Quakers who first emigrated to this country in the 1700's. Although illuminated letters harken back to the middle
ages, the early Quakers would have frowned upon any kind of artwork on a wedding certificate. They believed that artwork was "frivilous" and "vain." A certificate with wording such
as this would have been lettered in plain black ink on white paper. |
