Can You Help Me With The Wedding Invitation Wording?
I proposed a wedding invitation wording that included something like "Laura Smith and Dennis Taylor, together with their parents, invite you to celebrate their marriage."
My father wants it to say that he and my mom are hosting, ie. Mr. & Mrs. invite you to the wedding of their daughter.
My Dad is paying the biggest chunk, i.e., for reception venue, food and drink, my fiancee and I are paying for DJ,photographer, limo, favors, etc. His parents are paying for rehearsal dinner and giving us a very generous gift.
Who is right?
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Comments on Can You Help Me With The Wedding Invitation Wording?
Your parents. They are paying for a big portion but not only that it's the traditional way to word them and perhaps they are traditional people. Your wedding is something they've been imagining much longer than you have. Let them have this. They ARE hosting after all.
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your Father is paying therefore he is the host you are the guest of honor, and the invitation should read that your Mom and Dad are inviting the guest to join in the celebration.
you can have a wedding with out your parents the reception they cannot have without the guest of honor.
It is traditional for the parents of the bride to extend the invitation and since your father is paying for the reception that's how it should be. All the other costs being picked up don't count because the invitation is to the reception, nothing else. The invitation for the reception is from your dad and mom.
i think your way is best if you have been together a long time, live together or have kids. otherwise, if you are not paying for much of it at all, something like - Mrs and Mrs Taylor along with Mrs and Mrs Smith invite you to the wedding of (you and partner) so it is at least seen as equal. or if it a less formal wedding, use all parents first names -(you and partner) along with Jack, Mary, John and Jill, invite you to share and commemorate our wedding….still, I like your idea the best. it's your day after all.
In this case the B&G's name should NOT be on the invitation as the hosts.
You can have both sets of parents inviting, or you can have the traditional Mother and Father of the Bride issuing the invitations, which is what I would suggest.
I owned an operated a wedding chapel for ten years in California. 30,000 weddings during that time, and we sold the invitations for most.
Go with the traditional wording as they have it in the invitation books, you won't be sorry in the future.