Invite wording

jme712

I need help with our invite wording. Currently my mom and my fiance's parents are financing the wedding. His parents are married, mine are divorced. My mom is widowed and my Dad is re-married. My dad is not providing any financial support but I have to have him on the invitation.

From what I have seen so far, with both sets of parents hosting doesn't really sound right for our situation.
 It would be Mrs. Mother of the bride and Mr & Mrs. Father of the bride & Mr. & Mrs. Family of the groom request the pleasure ....

too many and's.... any suggestions?

aerinpegadrak

Both FI's and my parents are divorced and remarried.  I didn't want to try to fit nine names onto the invitation including ours, so we did "together with their parents." 

squirrly

Just for clarification - did your mother's second husband pass away?

If your father is not helping to host the wedding, the correct wording is:

Mrs. Your Mother
and
Mr. and Mrs. FIs Parents
request the pleasure of your company
at the marriage of their children
YourFirst Middle Last
and
FIFirst Middle Last

If he IS helping, it would be:

Mrs. Your Mother
Mr. Your Father
and
Mr. and Mrs. FIs Parents
request the pleasure of your company
at the marriage of their children
YourFirst Middle Last
and
FIFirst Middle Last

Step-parents are not included on invitations, and your parents would be on separate lines as they are not married to each other.

squirrly

PP is right, though, the easiest is just "Together with their Families"

ccannady2

Both of our parents are divorced and remarried, and I was not going to have a million names on the invite, so we're doing "Together with their parents..."  Plus a lot of the invites that I saw online don't work as well when you have extra lines (due to listing parents on separate lines), especially if you do landscape invites.

tiffgriffin7

I vote for 'together with their parents' -too confusing otherwise

we did 'together with our families' which included our siblings

jme712

Thanks Ladies!

To clarify, yes my mother's husband passed away and we are honoring him at the wedding. For my father, I didn't want to leave his name off of the invite even though he couldn't contribute financially. He just doesn't have the means right now. And if I left my Step-Mom off, we would have a MAJOR issue at the wedding.

It seems like it shouldn't be so hard. So, I think together with their parents is much easier.