My fiancee and I would like to recognize both sets of our parents for their contributions for our wedding; however we are responsible for well-over half of the wedding. According to wedding invitation etiquette, our invite should read something like:
Mr. and Mrs. Edward William Burch
Mr. and Mrs. John Albert Smith
request the honor of your presence
at the marriage of their daughter
Anna Grace Smith...
However, my parents are divorced AND have a different last name, so we are having trouble fitting the following even when decreasing the font size and if we can't fix it, we can't order the invites we want.
Mrs. X and
Mr. John Does
Mr. and Mrs. John Smith
request the honor of your presence
at the marriage of their daughter
Anna Smith...
Anyone have any recommendations on the most formal way to revise this? The other option would be to go with the following because we are paying for over half of the wedding but it won't really make our names stick out on the invite:
Ms. Heather Marie Smith
and
Mr. Michael Francis Jacobson
together with their parents
Mrs. John L. Smith and Mr. XX &
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Franklin Jacobson
request the pleasure of your company
at their wedding
Saturday, the seventeenth of May
two thousand and eight
at half past four in the afternoon.