Invitation Etiquette Question

I have a couple of instances where an entire family is invited to the wedding. The 'kids' are all over 17 though, but all still live at home.

Is it proper to send 1 invite to 'The ___ Family' or does each child get their own (we aren't inviting them with guests).

Also, my 2 little cousins who are my FG's - do they need their own separate invitations or can it again be addressed as 'The ___ Family'?

TIA ladies!

If they are all over 17 i would send them separate invites.

I don't think the fg's need invitations just include them on the parents invite.

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Posted by reenielady

If they are all over 17 i would send them separate invites.

I don't think the fg's need invitations just include them on the parents invite.

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Agreed. Although if you have extra invitations, you may want to give one to the FGs as a keepsake. They might like that.

We don't really have any families we're inviting with more than 2 kids so we did:


Mr. & Mrs. D____ R_______
Miss S____ R_______

We're still deciding what to do when there are 2 kids, like 'Mssrs. ___ and _____ ______' which I think looks goofy but might be proper. We might do Mr. ______ and Mr. _______ _______ as the second line

I think it looks more formal than 'the ___ Family' and acknowledges the names of the kids

these are not kids who are 18+ btw

friends of mine who live at home, whose parents are also being invited are getting their own invites

Over 17 etiquette says they get their own invitation. The FGs however can go on their parents invitations, but I wouldnt put 'The ___Family' on it.

I would put Mr. & Mrs. Smith
FG Smith

Since you would be sending other invitations to the rest of the family seperately.

FG on parent invite. And I think it would be okay to write the ____family. The idea someone mentioned about writing
Mrs.__and Mr.__
Miss___
sounds great though. And if there are more than one child you can just list the kids names seperatly.