Another invitation question

Do whatever works for you. Your guests will not notice or care.




What I was able to find about the history is that the bride’s name is listed first because traditionally her parents paid a larger sum for wedding expenses. Since that is no longer the case for most weddings, you can totally throw that out the window. Plus it does not fall into the category of etiquette which is defined as the art of navigating social situations to avoid offending or embarrassing others and will always be part of the human interaction experience.

View Quoted Comment Thank you! Yes, we will be paying ourselves.

I agree that it really doesn't matter and guests won't care whose name is first. Only stipulation is if you were doing something like "Mr. and Mrs. Your Parents invite you to the wedding of" etc. We also planned and paid for our wedding ourselves so we just put "Together with their families My Name and Husband's Name invite you to their wedding" or something like that. We also put our first and last names BUT we didn't do middle names since I don't have one and H's name wouldn't have fit on one line if we did his full name

View Quoted Comment Thank you! That was very helpful. Unfortunately I will not include “together with their families” because it’s only my fiancé family that will be with us.. my family is from Brazil and they won’t come. So I am just “Requesting the pleasure” and we are also paying ourselves. I did put the whole name lol, but his name is sooo short 😅 it was funny.