Invitation

haleyjill

 I was wondering about my invitations.  My fiances real dad is deceased.  His Stepfather is helping give us our wedding.  On the invitations how should we list the parents names without showing disrespect to his father or stepfather?

danieliza1127

Traditional wording:

Mr. and Mrs. Your Parents
request the honor of your presence
at the marraige of their daughter

You
to
Your FI
son of Mr. and Mrs. Step-dad and Mom
the Late Mr. Dad

You could also just not list parent names on the invitation and list them in the program.

In the program:

Parents of the Groom:
Mr and Mrs Step-dad and Mom
the Late Mr. Dad

PharmacyBride

I would only put the deceased dad on the invite if you go with the "groom name... son of...." route.

Since the SF is paying for the wedding I would flip the normal format of the wedding invite and put: "MOG & SF request the honor of your presence at the marriage of groom & bride   daughter of ..."

If both parents are contributing or flipping the format offends your parents.. use this approach:
Mr and Mrs ___ along with (or "and") Mr & Mrs ___ request the honor ....

I think the most appropriate place to honor his deceased dad is in the program.  I can see how you want him to be included- but he isn't a host.  The exception (see my 1st suggestion) - if you write the groom's name second followed by "son of..."  The dad should be listed there.