We are finally starting to look at invitations... My parents are giving us probably about half of what our wedding will cost... My question is, how shoudl we word the invite? Mr and Mrs. X request the honor of your presence... or Together with our parents....? They are helping us out a lot so I feel like they deserve recognition but at the same time I dont want FH's family to be upset (even though they are only paying for the RD)... Any opinions would be appreciated, as always!!
jimmysgrl
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I would say together with our parents or if you'd like to, you can just say Mr. and Mrs. X request the honor.....
eogara
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Well, if you want his parents on the invite, you can always say:
Mr. and Mrs. GoingNutty's Parents request the honour of your presence at the marriage of their daughter GoingNutty to GoingNutty's FH son of Mr. and Mrs. GoingNutty's FH's parents
Of course, this will only look ok if you keep GoingNutty throughout. It makes it flow.
azoodie
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you know this was such a debate, and even though rays parents aren't paying for the reception or the ceremony at all (they are paying for the hm and most of the RD though) we decided to put both parents because they're both kinda giving us away
ssbride05
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We are also using both parents too. My FIL are giving us money as well.. we also felt they were both giving us away too!!
verse it if you check out verseit.com they give you some great ways of phrasing it..... I love the site!
good luck!
DebsNY
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Posted by eogara
Well, if you want his parents on the invite, you can always say:
Mr. and Mrs. GoingNutty's Parents request the honour of your presence at the marriage of their daughter GoingNutty to GoingNutty's FH son of Mr. and Mrs. GoingNutty's FH's parents
Of course, this will only look ok if you keep GoingNutty throughout. It makes it flow.
But yeah, FMIL and FFIL are paying for a small portion of the wedding (very small) so we just put them as parents of FH, like above.
I agree 100% with keeping GoingNutty in the invite though
GoingNutty
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Posted by DebsNY
Posted by eogara
Well, if you want his parents on the invite, you can always say:
Mr. and Mrs. GoingNutty's Parents request the honour of your presence at the marriage of their daughter GoingNutty to GoingNutty's FH son of Mr. and Mrs. GoingNutty's FH's parents
Of course, this will only look ok if you keep GoingNutty throughout. It makes it flow.
But yeah, FMIL and FFIL are paying for a small portion of the wedding (very small) so we just put them as parents of FH, like above.
I agree 100% with keeping GoingNutty in the invite though
You girls are crazy! I like this version though... thanks!!
LuvMyMichael
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Posted by eogara
Well, if you want his parents on the invite, you can always say:
Mr. and Mrs. GoingNutty's Parents request the honour of your presence at the marriage of their daughter GoingNutty to GoingNutty's FH son of Mr. and Mrs. GoingNutty's FH's parents
I like this way.
adioguardi
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Posted by eogara
Well, if you want his parents on the invite, you can always say:
Mr. and Mrs. GoingNutty's Parents request the honour of your presence at the marriage of their daughter GoingNutty to GoingNutty's FH son of Mr. and Mrs. GoingNutty's FH's parents
Of course, this will only look ok if you keep GoingNutty throughout. It makes it flow.
I agree 1000%
lillian771
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We're in the same exact situation. I decided we'll do it this way:
Mr. and Mrs. X request the pleasure of your company at the marriage of their daughter Lillian Mary X to David John X son of Mr. and Mrs. X on Friday the 29th of July, 2005 St. Joseph's Church blah blah blah
That way his parents are mentioned but my parents are doing the inviting.
babslovesjoey
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Kra5hnburn
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Since we planned on paying for it ourselves, but our parents gave us very generous gifts, we said:
Nicole XXXX XXXX and Joseph XXXX XXXXX Together with their parents, Request the honor of your presence....
We didn't even put their names down on the invite, but you can list them both after the 'Together with their parents.'
catherine
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I agree with putting your parents name first and then writing son of Mr. and Mrs....
