Honor and Honour???

dancinmyazoff Posted: Jan 22, 2008 10:42 AM

Honor and Honour???

I'm writing the verse for my invitations and while verseit.com tells me to write honour my spellcheck is telling me it's wrong I'm definitely not the best with English and grammar but hopefully you guys are.

yelley77 Posted: Jan 22, 2008 10:44 AM

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good question. I've wondered about that myself!!

dream426 Posted: Jan 22, 2008 10:45 AM

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On my invitations I have honour.

AndRecKy Posted: Jan 22, 2008 10:46 AM

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Posted by dream426

On my invitations I have honour.

me too

NC1011 Posted: Jan 22, 2008 10:47 AM

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I believe both are perfectly fine to use. It's really just a matter of preference and how formal you want the invite to read. Your spellcheck prob just doesnt recognize it b/c it's an old english spelling.

MrsK2008 Posted: Jan 22, 2008 10:48 AM

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I looked at all of the literature and ettiquette on invite wording, then I did it the way I thought it should be.........

as follows

The wording should look as follows:

Ms. Kim's Mom
requests the pleasure of your company
at the marriage of her daughter
Kimberlee Ann blank

to

Paul Robert Blank
son of Mrs. Anne Blank
on Saturday, the fourth of October
two thousand and eight
at half past eleven o'clock <----note the time change
in the morning
<------added a space here
Jericho Terrace
Mineola, New York

Reception immediately following

missliss Posted: Jan 22, 2008 10:51 AM

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You can choose either. Honour, with a U, is the old english way to spell it. It is looked upon as more formal. I used this. Keep in mind that if you use the U in honour, also use it in the word 'favour', as in...The Favour of a Reply is Requested by..... if you word your RSVP that way.

It's strictly a matter of personal preference.

Rejjie Posted: Jan 22, 2008 10:54 AM

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I heard that if you get married in a church you use the 'u' and if you don't, do it the other way. I probably heard it here, though!

Mici n KC Posted: Jan 22, 2008 11:00 AM

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Posted by Rejjie

I heard that if you get married in a church you use the 'u' and if you don't, do it the other way. I probably heard it here, though!

Someone listed an article with this info and yes if you're getting married in a church you use honour and if you're getting married somewhere else you use favour.

Emily08 Posted: Jan 22, 2008 11:02 AM

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Posted by AndRecKy

Posted by dream426

On my invitations I have honour.

me too

Me three. I initially wrote honor and the person doing my invites changed it to honour... supposedly it's more formal, more old English

dancinmyazoff Posted: Jan 22, 2008 11:05 AM

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Ok so honoUr it is then! Thank you guys! I'll be posting my verse for grammar corrections shortly!!!

missliss Posted: Jan 22, 2008 11:09 AM

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Posted by Mici n KC

Posted by Rejjie

I heard that if you get married in a church you use the 'u' and if you don't, do it the other way. I probably heard it here, though!

Someone listed an article with this info and yes if you're getting married in a church you use honour and if you're getting married somewhere else you use favour.

I've read this too, but again, it's a matter of preference I think when it comes down to it. We're getting married at the RH, but at the same time it will be a very formal Sat. evening wedding. So I wanted to use Honour and Favour with the U.

I also 'read' that you're not even supposed to use the word Honor at all (any spelling) unless you're getting married at a church/temple. You're supposed to say 'pleasure of your company is requested'. Again, I'm getting married at the RH but wanted more formal wording, so I said screw the 'rules' and did what I want.

BlakeG Posted: Jan 22, 2008 10:58 PM

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I heard the same thing...if you get married in a church use the 'u', I'm not sure why though?!

shcole08 Posted: Jan 22, 2008 11:01 PM

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The brits do that use 'u' in words we don't but, its us that are actually wrong they are English...

cds58019 Posted: Jan 22, 2008 11:03 PM

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We used honour for our invitations. They person that we dealt with told us it looked a little more formal so that's why we went with it. But either one would be perfectly fine.