Invitation Question

Moonstar713 · September 2010

I am trying to decide the wording for my invitations. I was planning to just put someting along the lines that FI and I invite you to witness... blah,blah, blah.

I was talking about wording on invitations with FMIL and she was like "yea you put our names and your parents name invite you to Me & FI's... blah, blah, blah"

I know its tradition to put it like that but I don't see why I should. It was our choice to get married. Everyone wants us to wait because of the money issue. But like always I find a way to do things one way or the other. I am the one making all the sacrifices and paying for it. Yea she helps me by giving her input and with ideas. And my parents, please my dad doesn't even say anything and my mom either, unless its something negative. It bothers me but I work around it. I've defeated obstacles before, this isn't any different.

I'm just scared that she will take offense to it. She's a very "by the book, traditional" kind of person. And I'm scared it will cause problems. I just don't see how she would even think to do it that way. Am I being crazy?

marnie80 · September 2010

You can do anything you want

I found this sample with the couple inviting:

Jenny Thompson
and
Kurt Shippers

invite you to be a witness
to one of life's loveliest
surprises
as they are joined together in
matrimony

on Saturday, the seventh of June
at three o'clock in the afternoon

Birmingham Hotel
42067 Fargo Road
Palm City, Florida

jthom001 · September 2010

don't quote me on this, but the brides parents are usually listed bc they traditionally pay for the wedding. however, that's not usually the case these days. so i would say do what you feel is best. i think i'm using the wording "together with their families (bride) and (groom) invite you... blah blah blah." it's going to be a team effort to pay for our wedding, if that's not the case for you then just write your names.

hth

gatorgirl512 · September 2010

I put:

Together with their families

Ms. Gator
and
Mr. Gator

Invite you to celebrate their wedding day.

It cut out a lot of the crap on what names to put down since I have step parents and some parents aren't helping pay.

RU3234 · September 2010

I understand where you are coming from. We had some problems with that as well. Eventually we just went with Ms. Jane Doe and John Smith together with their families....it was alot easier than fighting over it and using something small to start a bigger fight. GL

jthom001 · September 2010

i like what marnie wrote!

ps - looks like we're month twins!

Moonstar713 · September 2010

THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!! That sounds great I don't know why I didn't think of that. I can really work with that, there was something about adding the actual names that bothered me, I don't know why. (Crazy!)

YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST!

MariposaRose · September 2010

From what I know and I could be wrong, the wording depends on who is dishing out the cash.

If brides parents.. then it's your folks name....Mr. & Mrs. John Doe's daughter.. Missy Doe will wed... John Smith. You know what I mean.

If it's just you guys paying... FI & I invite you to... so on.

However, if you want to be nice and include the folks in some way, this is what I did.

Together with their parents, Rosmery & Alex invite you to....

HTH

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