don't know how to word invitations

melissasdwedding · May 2012

My fiance's family is paying for the wedding. I was going to put Mr & Mrs. ________ and his dads name because his parents are divoriced instead of saying Mr & Mrs. would like you to attend the wedding of their daughter. But my fiance don't want me to put his parents name first, he wants me to put my parents names first. Anybody have ideas?

QueerFemme · May 2012

You could not do names of parents at all and say :

The families of
Joanna Leigh Roberts
and
Andrew Rex Hargreaves
invite you to join in the celebration of their marriage
Saturday, September 6, 2018
at 6 o'clock in the evening
The Inn at Rancho Sante Fe
5951 Linea De Cielo
Rancho Sante Fe, California

or something like:

Mr. and Mrs. Brides Parents
together with
Mr. Groom's Father and Ms. Groom's Mother
invite you to share in the joy of the marriage uniting their children
Ashley Marie Kling
and
Patrick Everett Langston
on Saturday, the twelfth of April
two thousand eighteen
at eleven o'clock in the morning
San Bay Yacht Club
42 Burgundy Drive
Los Angeles, California

smartlypretty · May 2012

Well, the people at the top of the invitation are really just the people that are hosting aka paying for the wedding. You can list parent's names in the ceremony program. So in this case proper wording would be:

Mrs. and Mrs. Groom's Parents

request the pleasure of your company

at the marriage of their son

Groom's name

to

Bride's name

daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bride's Parents

at blah blah blah

although it sounds like they are divorced so you would need to list both sets of his parents.

You could always not list parents names and do it like this:

Together with their families

Brides Name

and

Groom's Name

request the pleasure of your company

as they are united in marriage

at blah blah blah

For my wedding, his parents AND my parents are all contributing so I am doing it like this:

Mr. and Mrs. Brides parents

and

Mr. and Mrs. Groom's parents

request the pleasure of your company

at the marriage of their children

My Name

to

His Name

at blah blah blah

BMcLeodTeam · May 2012

We did the 'together with their families' wording, however we are actually paying for our own wedding with a small contribution of money from our families.
Smartly is right though, her first wording is technically the proper wording given who is hosting.

volleygurl0306 · May 2012

Your FI may not want it that way but maybe you should speak to your FILs. If they are the ones paying, they may feel slighted to not be first. I feel like we have a tendency to say "oh my parents won't mind" assuming we know how they will feel about everything. Not every time, but sometimes we are wrong. Not worth offending when they are doing you such a favor. If your parents are contributing at all I'd go with a "together with their families..." Otherwise, I'd ask FIL and go from there.

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