Wedding invitation wording

RobynLouise_2

Hi ladies

I'm trying to come up with the wording for our wedding invites. Tradtionally, I believe the bride's parents 'host' as they generally pay however for our wedding, both my parents, OH's mum and ourselves are contributing so I'm at a bit of a loss as about how to word the invites.

Also, I'm not sure we can put about 'bride and grooms parents' as my OHs parents are separated and his dad will not be at the wedding nor have had anything to do with it.

Does anyone know any get-arounds for this?! I'm thinking if anything we might just have to do it from us.. "[our names] request the pleasure of the company of [their name(s)] to join them in celebrating their wedding.."

What do you think?

Also, on a subnote - do we send invites to bridesmaids and groomsmen and parents?!

McKneff

Nothing to stop you and your fianc! actually doing the inviting and just putting your own names on the invites.


And yes, send invitations to everyone who will be at the wedding, they are nice to receive and lots of us like to have keepsakes.

krustylouise

Discuss this with your parents and whether they would be offended if they would/wouldn't be on the invites. We are solely funding our wedding so the invitations are from us.

frugs

We're going with "Bonnie and Clyde, together with their parents, invite..." As although we're paying we wanted to acknowledge other contributions. Maybe "Parents" is a broad enough term to cover separations?

anotheruser

We're going for the bride's parents, even though we're paying for pretty much all of it ourselves.
Even though the parents are split (separate surnames), the invites still look good.