Invitation Wording Opinion

Girls,

You all are all so helpful so thank you thank you thank you in advance....
Here's my situation.
My parents, and my fiance and I are paying for the wedding. His parents have been completely USELESS!!! Emotional and Financially thus far.

Over the weekend I went to an invitation place, and they suggested I put his parents names on the invite.
Since, they are not doing ANYTHING for us I only want my parents name and my fiances name on the invite...
What do you think?

My parents names
request the honour of your presence
at the marriage of their daughter
My first and middle name
to
fh full name

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Posted by MrsL2010

i'm in the same boat as you and i don't know what to do. I've been thinking that I might just do something like Dawn and Brian together with their families....

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I will probably do the same just to be sure we're not stepping on anyones toes.

is your FH's relationship with his parents good or bad? If it's good, you could do:

Mr. and Mrs. Your Parents
request the honor of your presence
at the wedding of their daughter

You
to
FH

son of Mr. and Mrs. His Parents


this way, it's obvious that your parents are the hosts

my parents and Fh and i are paying (also my parents are seperated so we are splitting up their names) so we are doing something like this

jaclyn marie
&
John Robert Jr
together with the bride's parents
Mr. Michael blah &
Mrs. Gina Blah

invite you yada yada ....

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Posted by pa56

is your FH's relationship with his parents good or bad? If it's good, you could do:

Mr. and Mrs. Your Parents
request the honor of your presence
at the wedding of their daughter

You
to
FH

son of Mr. and Mrs. His Parents


this way, it's obvious that your parents are the hosts

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i think this is a good way to do it!!

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Posted by M_and_J

My parents names
request the honour of your presence
at the marriage of their daughter
My first and middle name
to
fh full name

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thats what i wanted to do but my parents said i shouldnt...BLAH!!

If your FH is ok with not including his parents names then you don't have to:

Here is the traditional way and if they say anything you can say you chose traditional:

Mr and Mr John Doe
request the honour of your presence at the marriage of their daughter

Jane Lynn

to

First Middle Last


If you add son of xxxx people will think they contributed.

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Posted by FutureMrs.M

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Posted by M_and_J

My parents names
request the honour of your presence
at the marriage of their daughter
My first and middle name
to
fh full name

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thats what i wanted to do but my parents said i shouldnt...BLAH!!

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I initially wanted to include
'son of' and his parent's names
but FH said he didn't want that.

my parents are paying for everything- his parents haven't offered a dime but we are still including his parents names on the invitation. i just think it's a courtesy out of respect for them. so ours says this:

Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Durand
request the honour of your presence
at the marriage of their daughter
Sophie Lynn
to
Jeffrey Lautrec
son of
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Lautrec
Saturday, the third of March
Two thousand and twelve
at two o'clock in the afternoon
Fox Green Country Club
2621 Hunter Avenue
Atlanta, Georgia

i think they will appreciate it when they get their invite!

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Posted by Deeglasser

my parents are paying for everything- his parents haven't offered a dime but we are still including his parents names on the invitation. i just think it's a courtesy out of respect for them. so ours says this:

Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Durand
request the honour of your presence
at the marriage of their daughter
Sophie Lynn
to
Jeffrey Lautrec
son of
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Lautrec
Saturday, the third of March
Two thousand and twelve
at two o'clock in the afternoon
Fox Green Country Club
2621 Hunter Avenue
Atlanta, Georgia

i think they will appreciate it when they get their invite!

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i have to say i agree with this they raised him regardless of if theyre not chipping in for the wedding jmo... but if you really dont want to then i suggest the format that i commented on before

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Posted by Jna2010

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Posted by Deeglasser

my parents are paying for everything- his parents haven't offered a dime but we are still including his parents names on the invitation. i just think it's a courtesy out of respect for them. so ours says this:

Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Durand
request the honour of your presence
at the marriage of their daughter
Sophie Lynn
to
Jeffrey Lautrec
son of
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Lautrec
Saturday, the third of March
Two thousand and twelve
at two o'clock in the afternoon
Fox Green Country Club
2621 Hunter Avenue
Atlanta, Georgia

i think they will appreciate it when they get their invite!

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i have to say i agree with this they raised him regardless of if theyre not chipping in for the wedding jmo... but if you really dont want to then i suggest the format that i commented on before

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you cannot go wrong doing this(including the parents names) out of respect-despite the fact that they have not made anything easier for you both.

it stinks that it is even an issue. I know how hurtful it can be.
For us-its more of an emotional thing rather than financial thing(though they haven't offered or given a dime either) our situation is a bit tricky.

We are not using any families names on the invites. We are writing

Danielle ****** & Russell *****
Together with their families
invite you.....

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Posted by bubberflys

We are not using any families names on the invites. We are writing

Danielle ****** & Russell *****
Together with their families
invite you.....

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I like this format. I don't think its important to point out who helped pay on the invitation.
We did ours like this
the honour of your presence is requested
at the wedding of
Shari Last Name
daughter of (both parents names)
to
Matthew (last name)
son of both parents names

We did it this way because we both lost a parent.
We wanted all our parents names on the invite.
Actually, my mom and his dad helped equally, if anything, his dad helped a little more, but the invite doesn't specify who is hosting, its just inviting people.

Again, this is just my opinion - everyone's is different. Do what you are comfortable with -talk to your FH and close friends - not the lady in the invite store.

Any way you do it, it will be fine!