Formal name or nickname?

Go by what he likes

We used full names for both. It was just more formal.

Thank you everyone!!!!

I would do the formal name on the invitations and the nickname on the STD's!

Invitations will say our full name. Everything else will probably have our nicknames.

If he prefers Danny, use Danny.

I used my full name on invites by I'll use my nickname on everything else.

I used Matthew on the invites even though he always goes by Matt.

Everything else says Matt.

Actually we used our nicknames in our invites also... everyone knows us by them and it worked with the design of it

My FH nickname is dan (name daniel) on the std I used dan on the invitation I used his legal name

FH is Kenny for everything except legal docs. Wedding invite isn't a legal doc so Kenny it is.

We're putting FH nickname on everything. It's what he preferred!

I go by Tori, but for our invites and the ceremony we will do Victoria. It just feels more formal to me!

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DH's legal name is Pavel - I've never ever called him that, I said it once and he said I say it so American it sounds funny - and I haven't looked back. He goes by Paul, and has since he moved here when he was 12.

Everything said "Paul Lastname" and nothing said Pavel. I asked our officiant if we could do our ceremony with Paul, and she said as long as the marriage license says what it needs to - she can say anything we want in the vows and the proclamation of marriage.

He really hates going by Pavel. He's flown with tickets under Paul (recently too - I can't get over the amount of times he's gone through security with a ticket and a license with different names and they let him go). We even got our joint checks to say "Paul" even though that's not his legal name.

Both myself and FH don't go by our full names, especially me. Nobody would know who the hell Victoria and Kenneth are, but Ken and Vicki are getting married lol.

Our wedding website and inserts to the invitations have Ken and Vicki (if we'd done STDs, these would've had Ken and Vicki too). Our invitations have our full name and our ceremony, since it's in the Catholic Church, will be full names.

I literally never answer to Victoria. I tried to change from Vicki to Victoria in college but I almost failed a class my freshman year because I never raised my hand when they called Victoria. Literally no one EVER calls me Victoria.

No one ever spells Vicki right either. It's a lose lose

I'd pick one and stick with it for the invitation and response cards.

FH's first name is Max but our friends call him Maxi, we're definitely not using that lol.

I go by my last name, so I'm in a similar situation. I decided to to 2 sets of STDs and invitations for family and friends.

For your situation, either one should work just fine!

My FH shortens his name, the only people who call him his full name is his family and he HATES IT! So we are putting his shortened name on all of the invites and everything else. At the end of the day, it really doesn't matter, the only thing your legal name has to be on is the marriage license.

Legal names matter a lot less than people tend to think.

We used nicknames on everything. It's more us than our legal names.