Catholic Wedding invite wording

hodes87

For all you Catholics out there, I need some help.  My fiance and I are getting married in a church by his uncle who is a priest.  Majority of our families are Catholic and most of our friends.  We are in the process of figuring out how to word the invitation.  We will be having a full mass at the ceremony.  I have looked up different ways it could be worded, but none of them include both sets of parents on it.  My parents are the ones hosting, but I still would like my fiances parents to be on the invitation also.  I wasn't sure if it was okay to just go with the traditional wording since we are having a nuptial mass, or if it was more appropriate to word it the "nuptual" way.  Here is the traditional way we were thinking about doing that included both sets of parents names on the invitation, but does not say anything about nuptual mass:

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Richard Hodes

request the honor of your presence

at the marriage of their daughter

Laura Danielle

to Mr. Ryan Richard Mandl

son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lee Mandl

Saturday, the eighteenth of August

two thousand twelve

at two o'clock in the afternoon

St. Agnes Catholic Church

5250 Mission Road

And here is the other way we were thinking about the includes the "nuptual" but does not include my fiances parents:

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Richard Hodes
request the honour of your presence
at the Nuptual Mass uniting their daughter
Laura Danielle
and
Mr. Ryan Richard Mandl
In the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony
Saturday, the eighteenth of August
Two thousand and twelve
at two o'clock in the afternoon
St. Agnes Catholic Parish
5250 Mission Road

With this last example, would it not be proper etiquette to add my fiances parents in there somehow? Any ideas would be very helpful!! 

LeiselEB

First, I'd edit the names out of your post if these are your real names. Gotta be careful on the internet

There's no reason you can't include your fiance's parents in the wording using "nuptial mass". "Son of.." is a new trend, not a traditional way of wording things, but there's no reason you can't use it with nuptial mass. Just switch up the wording a bit:

Mr. and Mrs. John Smith

request the honour of your presence 

at the nuptial mass uniting their daughter

Bride First Middle

to 

Groom Full Name

son of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Doe

Saturday, the eighteenth of August

two thousand twelve

at two o'clock in the afternoon

St. Agnes Catholic Church

Address

City, State

But either of the choices you listed above are fine, too! Also, be sure that "nuptial" is spelled correctly before having these printed

ootmother2

Either one is correct.

Leave the street off the invitation

two thousand AND twelve is correct  (crappy math and grammar but correct etiquette)

aragx6

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[QUOTE]Either one is correct. Leave the street off the invitation<strong> two thousand AND twelve is correct  (crappy math and grammar but correct etiquette)
</strong>Posted by ootmother2[/QUOTE]

I am <em>so</em> torn on this. Emily Post says not to use the and.

hodes87

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[QUOTE]First, I'd edit the names out of your post if these are your real names. Gotta be careful on the internet :) There's no reason you can't include your fiance's parents in the wording using "nuptial mass". "Son of.." is a new trend, not a traditional way of wording things, but there's no reason you can't use it with nuptial mass. Just switch up the wording a bit: Mr. and Mrs. John Smith request the honour of your presence  at the nuptial mass uniting their daughter Bride First Middle to  Groom Full Name son of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Doe Saturday, the eighteenth of August two thousand twelve at two o'clock in the afternoon St. Agnes Catholic Church Address City, State But either of the choices you listed above are fine, too! Also, be sure that "nuptial" is spelled correctly before having these printed :)
Posted by LeiselEB[/QUOTE]

<div>
</div><div>Thank you for your help! This was very helpful. And don't worry, it's not our exact names :)</div>

aimers1525

Ours were like this:

Mr. and Mrs. John Smith

request the honour of your presence 

at the nuptial mass uniting their daughter

Bride First Middle

to 

Groom Full Name

son of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Doe

Saturday, the eighteenth of August

two thousand twelve

half after two o'clock

St. Agnes Catholic Church

City, State