Addressing Invitations

kearnka

If you are addressing an invitation to an unmarried couple, thus writing both names out, does it matter if the man or woman's name goes first?  TIA

vallyhoo

The woman's name should go first, and put them on separate lines.

tenofcups4me

Traditionally the woman's name goes first. That's not, however, the way we did it: We put the first name of the person we were "really" inviting. So, for example, if we invited my best female friend and her boyfriend, we put her name first; my male cousin and his girlfriend, we put his name first. If we were friends with both parts of the couple, we put the woman first. I used the same rule for gay couples (whoever we knew better), although some people do that in alphabetical order.

Calypso1977

the woman's name goes first, man's name below it.  no "and" as others said. as for gay couples, i'd just go with alphabetical order, applying the "and" rule accordingly.