Wedding Invitations & Paper

Help with invitation wording!

I know the person/people "hosting" the wedding are supposed to be the name(s) that appear first on the invitation, so that if the bride's parents are hosting it's "Mr. and Mrs. Bridesparents request the pleasure of your company and the marriage of their daughter Me to My Fiance" etc., or if the bride and groom are hosting themselves, something like "Bride and Groom request the pleasure..."  I've also seen the option where "everyone" (couple and all parents) are hosting, "Bride and Groom, together with their parents..."

However, I have no idea what to do in my situation!  My fiance and I are paying for the bulk of our wedding ourselves.  My parents gave us a chunk of money which will be about 20%(ish) of the total cost.  My fiance's parents are divorced; his dad gave us a little money (about 1/20th of the total cost) and his mom is not in a position to contribute financially.  I just found out today that apparently my parents are expecting to be named on the invitation as "Mr. and Mrs. Bridesparents invite you..."!  I have absolutely no idea what my fiance's parents are expecting, if anything.

What do I do?!  My parents and me/fiance?  Everybody all togther ("together with their parents...") even though his parents aren't as financially involved as mine (who aren't as financially involved as my fiance and I!)?  I could really use some advice!!

Re: Help with invitation wording!

  • I ordered my invitations on davidsbridal.com, and they had several forms of invitation wording available that you could check out.  There's nothing wrong with you and your fiance being the inviters - it should be how you want.  We did choose one and share it with our parents before we ordered it, just so they would be cool with it and there would be no surprises or hurt feelings.
  • Your parents will just need to live with "together with their parents". There are too many parents to list and it doesn't really matter who is paying for what.
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  • edited March 2012
    I put "together with their families" on my invite. No one has stepped up to offer to help us financially but I felt like doing it that way because they are a big reason why we're having a wedding: our families. We want to celebate with them.
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  • Thanks everyone for your help and suggestions!  I hadn't had a chance to explain all this to my fiance while at work yesterday, so we were just talking about it now and I think are both leaning towards "together with their parents/families" so no one's feelings get hurt.  (We're the ones doing 98% of the planning, sending the invitations, receiving the response cards, etc.)

    Thank you!!
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