I would like to have some indication in our invite that it is a Jewish wedding, but I don't want to do bilingual or have too much Hebrew, because a significant portion of FI's family is not Jewish.
I was thinking: [My parents] invite you to share in the simcha of the marriage of their daughter...
I ran it by a rabbi, and he said it was an awkward use of "simcha." Do you agree? Other suggestions? I'm looking for something on the level of incorporating a transliterated Hebrew word like this in a way that it won't matter if people don't understand it (or can get from context).