Two Lives, two hearts joined together in friendship united forever in love. It is with joy that we, Karen and Neal together with our parents and family blessings invite you to share in a celebration of love as we wxchange marriage vows on
okay, my question is the 8th line - should it be: together with our parents and family blessings OR
together with our parents and families blessing OR
together with our parents and blessings from our family or families?
I know this is a little confusing....thanks again girls!!
Claud2001
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This is just my opinion, so please take it for what it's worth... I would remove the 'family' part altogether and just include your parents. It's a nice gesture to want to mention the families, but I think that it's unnecessary on a wedding invitation.
Jenny5150
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I agree with Claud to leave out family (it's a nice gesture, but becomes too wordy.) Also wouldn't it be parents' with an apostrophe since it's their blessings???
Sonicstef
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Agree with Jenny and Claud. I think their blessing is implied when you use 'together with our parents'.
On another note, this part:
Two Lives, two hearts joined together in friendship united forever in love.
seems to be written in the past tense as if it were already done like in a wedding announcment rather than invitation. Perhaps you can change it to:
Two lives, two hearts join together in friendship unite in love
kittyke
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The ONLY reason I wanted include family is because he parents are divorced and both re-married, so I thought just writing 'parents: would be wrong. Plus do you only add parents names if they are paying for the wedding. We are paying for the wedding ourselves, but want to include these sets of parents. Keep the opinions coming!!
Sonicstef
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In theory - your parents host the wedding no matter who pays. I find this to be the most crazy rule but you are perfectly within etiquette guidelines to list your parents even if they make no contribution.
kittyke
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I wasn't sure of that - the brides parents name on the invite no matter who funds it - what is everyone else doing? Maybe I should start oer?
Sassy
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All this etiquette talk................................
I don't think there is a standard anymore for whose names go on the invitation. I've seen all types of wording on invitation. If you go to a shop,, and the have examples, not all of them have parents' names. Really, mentioning the parents name is more of a tradition, not etiquette. What you put there is fine. Kittyke, go with what you feel. If you want to acknowledge your family on the invitation, don't worry about etiquette.
As for us, my FH and I are working very hard planning the wedding, and we are not putting our parents names on the invitation, they are not hosting, we are. We will, however, acknowledge them like you did, we haven't come up with the exact wording yet.
kittyke
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I didn't really want to include 'family or families' on the invitations, I do just want the word 'parents' but my FI parents are divorced and re-married, I don't want ALL names on the invitations..please help me find an alternative..Thanks all!
spreilly
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Maybe you could just leave out the word 'parents' and just do:
Karen and Neal Together with thier families or with thier families blessing (unless you really wanted your parents specifically mentioned.) Good Luck
