At some point before
this, Max was in the bar, and he went to Bar with a pile of lovely envelopes, with less-than-lovely slips of paper inside them.
Copies were left with Bar for Ford Prefect, Trillian, Shelley Winters, Meg Giry & Andrew Wells, Arithon s'Ffalenn & Bianca Solderini, Nick Knight, Arthur Dent & Fenchurch, Zaphod Beeblebrox, Charlie Pace & Darien Fawkes, Isabel & Warren Meers, Liam, Karen and Megan Pace, David Talbot & Loki, Moiraine Sedai & Dream, Archie Kennedy & Svava, Angel Dumott Schunard, Valentine Wiggin-Skywalker, Mark Cohen, Nita Callahan & Kit Rodriguez, Crowley & Aziraphael, Richard Sharpe, Angela Edmunds, Sara Sidle, Willow Rosenberg & Tara McClay, Rupert Giles, Wesley Wyndham-Pryce & Winifred Burkle and the crew of Serenity:
Sorry about the messy paper -- this is a handwritten copy of something that was written in Antarian.
It's Max's writing.
You are cordially, formally, and [word that doesn't translate properly that would probably be summed up as 'lovingly'] invited to the union of marriage between
our King Zan (Max) Evans & his lady Fainothi (Faith) Lehane
on this June the Fourth
Transport to Antar will be provided with RSVP
(Moiraine's copy only has the post-script of You and Daniel can just walk in, right?)