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Please Help!

Sousa8611Sousa8611 member
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Here's the situation..
My parents just got a divorce. Dad might be remarried before we get married. FH's mom wants her and her husbands name on the invite (the "traditional" way because she's "old fashioned"). How would you go about wording that with a set of divorced parents and a set of married parents!? I've looked all over. I only have to include our parents and not the new wife(?).

 I really just want to do "Together with their parents.." or "The Parents of..." because I really don't want to announce to everyone invited that my parents are divorced. It's so much easier! But then my parents and FH parents are helping out with the wedding too so that's where I'm stuck! His parents suggested things and we aren't doing any of that so i was thinking if anything this would b the one exception. Idk!

Ah! please help!
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  • Sousa8611Sousa8611 member
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    I might explain to her that it's too wordy. That sounds easy enough to do. It's better than trying to explain everything that's going on... She knows my parents are recently divorced but not much more than that. The parents are mainly paying for the hall but my fiance and I are paying for all the other stuff (cake, dj, centerpieces/flowers, dress, tux, etc.). It's pretty equal i guess... FMIL had an invite from a wedding and gave it to my FH and told him this is how she'd like the invites with the names on it. She prob didn't know it was "recent trend" but sure tried to pull the "brides parents pay for..." thing.  She's not up with the times! o how i wish i could vent sometimes!

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  • aerinpegadrakaerinpegadrak member
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    We didn't even run the names past our parents, paying or not.  With divorces and remarriages there are seven parents between us, and our invitation was simply too small to accommodate that many names.  So we just did "together with their parents," and I didn't hear any complaints that the actual names were omitted.
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