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?
debzy
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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
That's how you should do it. We're doing it that way, too. I don't want to completely exclude his parents, but my parents are paying, so they should get the 'credit' of being the hosts.
wo0shply
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Posted by Jna2010
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
i think this is a good way to do it!!
We did it that way too
cupid2410
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My fiance's parents aren't contributing at all but I didn't want to upset anyone and have a life full of pissed off in-laws. They're really nice people but sooo bad with money and don't have anything to contribute so we put:
Mr. and Mrs. My Parents request the honour of your presence at the marriage of their daughter
my first and middle to his first and middle
son of Mr. and Mrs. His Parents
justabride2010
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there is no reason to put thier names on the invite! Give credit where it is due!
cupid2410
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I think a lot of people use the invites as a passive aggressive way to say 'You didn't contribute to the cost of a wedding, you're not going on the invite'. Of course there are exceptions if parents aren't involved in someone's life but a marriage is a blending of families and I think it's better to put them on than leave them off. I'm sure if people had money to give, they would. Sorry... just my opinion. This seems to be a common sticky situation.
