2nd wedding and his daughter

secondtry30

Hey everyone!! We just got engaged two weeks ago and I actually joined this site today. Looking for ideas for wedding invitations to include my fiance's daughter. She's also going to have a part in the ceremony, just haven't quite nailed down all the details yet. We both have been married before, so this will be a very small ceremony at my parents lake cabin in June. His daughter is 4 years old and super sweet and fun. We get along so well, it's awesome!!!

I've been searching for wording invitations that include children. Does anyone have any ideas? i haven't found the perfect wording yet. Thank you in advance!!!

mandi195

I have 2 thoughts on this:
1) many will say that a wedding is between you and your FI, and that children should not be included on invitations. In some ways, I agree with this. Involve her in the ceremony, but not the invitation.
2) Having been married before, and having a child (My FI was previously married and has a child as well), we are choosing to have our invitations worded with "our names, together with their children" (instead of "together with their parents"), as we are joining 2 families, and we liked it better than just our names, and we clearly aren't having our parents names as they aren't hosting the wedding.
I believe either way is fine, it really depends on how you and your FI want to do things.

missv19732000

I found some info on this website:  http://weddings.about.com/od/weddinginvitations/a/invitationwordi.htm

Hope it helps!

Avion22

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/special-topic-wedding-boards_second-weddings_2nd-wedding-and-his-daughter?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Special Topic Wedding BoardsForum:35Discussion:c5e3d26e-499f-4a34-8e45-eb6dc9fd6f11Post:9e9b1dda-7672-47b9-8c60-79687bc08d24">Re: 2nd wedding and his daughter</a>:
[QUOTE]Have you asked her what she'd like to do in the wedding? She's four. Make her a flower girl or bridesmaid, or let her attend as a guest.  She's "included" if she's THERE. The hosts of the wedding go on the invitation.  A child cannot host anything.  Those "Jack and Jill invite you to the wedding of their parents" looks ridiculous, not cute. "Together with their families" would work best in this situation.
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This. The only people who should be named on an invitation are the hosts, and the people getting married. "Together with their families" is nice. At age three/four, she won't really be able to be "involved" in any other way that to be dressed up and look cute in pictures, which I'm sure she will do very well:-)

secondtry30

Thanks everyone for your ideas. We've actually decided not to do invitations at all - since it's only parents, brother's and sister. so it'll all be word of mouth. And we've decided to give her a necklace (or something), after the ceremony. Thanks all!!