Wedding Blog

We worded ours: “Together with their families, Miss and Mr. Bee…” because we wanted to acknowledge our parents/families but not have a super formal sounding invitation.

I like the word marriage better than wedding. Wedding sounds more like the event you go to (i.e. “I’m going to a wedding.”). Marriage is the bond/committment that is being celebrated (i.e. “I’m getting married.”) Just a thought.

i thought about adding “together with their families,” but if anyone’s parents get acknowledged, it should be mine, since they are paying for half of the wedding. right?

Miss Butterfly: Here is a link to many other variations. Hope it helps!

http://www.verseit.com/VerseIt_Verses.cfm?SR=1

I highly suggest using wedding rather than marriage (unless you say marriage ceremony). Because you aren’t inviting everyone to be at your MARRIAGE for the rest of your lives…just an event (wedding) that will take place at that time.

Even though my Fiance’s parents are paying for the wedding I included both our parents names. I also wanted to include the name of my Deceased father. So I said “[my name] daugher of [my dad and my mom] and [fiance's name] son of [his dad and mom] request the honor of your presence at….”

We are all sharing the “burden” of our wedding and we wanted our parents’ names mentioned so we went with the following–even though it doesn’t say specifically who is hosting.

Joy
daughter of X and Y lastname

and Fiance
son of X and Y lastname

invite you…blah blah blah

We went fairly casual, we didn’t write out the numbers and I didn’t say Mr. and Mrs lastname because I wanted my mother’s name and my FMIL’s name on the invite as well. Tradition schmadition!