Legal name on invitations

Re: Legal name on invitations

• Jen4948 member

  

  January 2013

  I would use your full legal name on the invitation.
  
  However, in the return address, you could put the name you are known by.

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• bopple321 member

  

  January 2013

  Hmm... I was simply going to go first and last name... Never even thought to include my middle name.  Does one have to put their middle name?

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• bopple321 member

  

  January 2013

  In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_invites-paper_legal-name-on-invitations?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:cd062f89-8272-496a-b0ab-225e1f87acecDiscussion:a0b0ef58-f779-4b43-8904-6b124677b507Post:e99be868-ced1-4d93-9d43-3f4fbced67b5">Re: Legal name on invitations</a>:
  [QUOTE]In Response to Re: Legal name on invitations : Bopple, you are new to the boards.  I think you can learn a lot here.  In normal traditional wording the bride does not put her last name unless it differs from her parents' name.  If parents are not hosting, then the bride must use her full name.
  Posted by CMGr[/QUOTE]
  
  My parents are divorced so I have the same last name as one of them but not the other.  We're not having a "formal" wedding by tradition so I don't know if I would send a very formally worded invitation.  Plus, if I put that my father and stepmother are hosting (they are paying for a great deal) my mother would feel diminished, not to mention the grooms parents. 

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• SereneTiger member

  

  April 2014

  bopple321 said:

  Hmm... I was simply going to go first and last name... Never even thought to include my middle name.  Does one have to put their middle name?

  I was wondering the same thing. My middle name is so long compared to FIs that it would look odd and hardly anyone knows my middle name.
  

  

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• CMGragain member

  

  April 2014

  This thread is more than a year old.  Please don't resurrect zombie threads.  Open a new thread, post your invitation text (without exact location) and ask your question.
  

  

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