invitation wording help

sarredman

Having some issues with wording....My honey's parents are hosting our reception. My honey's father is a Jr. and my honey is a III (Harold III). Here's our invitation thus far.....


Mr. and Mrs. Harold lastname
invite you to
join us in an evening of fun
to celebrate the marriage of

Harold and Sarah lastname

on sunday, the seventeenth of october
etc.etc.

At this point it kinda looks we are hosting the event ourselves.

Any suggestions??

I Want Cake

You could spell out your FI's mother's name, and go "Mrs. ____ and Mr. Howard Lastname" instead, or say something like "invite you to celebrate with their son, Howard Lastname, Jr and his new wife Sara."  HTH

dcprep

I know this isn't exactly the question you asked, but are you mentioning your parents' names at all? I feel like if one set of parents is mentioned, then the other set should be mentioned (assuming you have a good relationship with them). I know that "technically" you're only supposed to mention the people who are footing the bill, but it kind of rubs me the wrong way when I don't see the other names on there. Like, they don't deserve to be recognized as your parents, just because they didn't write a check? I have a girlfriend whose parents paid most of the bill, but her FI's parents paid some too, and the invitation ONLY listed her parents' names. I thought that was bizarre, even though it might be following "tradition."

I know that this is a little off-topic -- sorry   And it wasn't directed specifically toward you, but just a thought I have on wording in general

dcprep

Also, to directly answer your question....

I think you could do:

Mr. and Mrs. Harold lastname, III
invite you to
join us in an evening of fun
to celebrate the marriage of

Harold Middle, Jr. and Sarah Middle lastna

Make sense? We used our middle names on our invitations.

sarredman

dcprep,
I totally understand where you are coming from but unfortunately I don't have a good relationship with my parents and they have declined to come to the reception. Thats why they won't be mentioned in the invite.

Thanks for the help ladies

wittyschaffy

Mr. and Mrs. Harold lastname Jr
invite you to
join us in an evening of fun
to celebrate the marriage of

Harold Middle, III and Sarah Middle lastname


 If it were me personally, this is what I'd do.

dcprep

Sarredman, I completely understand. I didn't want to assume anything

Oops! I got the wording backward! :-p  Wittyshaffy did it correctly, with dad being Jr and your FI being III

shan87

thanks for asking this my FI is a II and wasn't going to put it in there. But I will now

So was this on your seperate Reception Card?
If the other set of parents was not hosting would you still repeat the names?!

laura_fett

Harold and Sarah lastname

Is this for a reception where you are already married? From this line it looks like your saying his first name, your first name, your new last name? Is that what your thinking. If this is an invitation to a wedding, you should put Harold last name III and Sarah last name. Maybe that's what your planning on doing, but it looks like you were just going to put your new last name.