How to mention parents on invitation

We put "together with their families" on our invites. It doesn't list anyone by name, but includes all parents, divorced, remarried, still together. It's the easiest thing to do or leave them all off.

The suggestion on our invitation template was Together with their families Bride and Groom request your presence at their marriage ceremony. That way we didn't have to list everyone. (We are paying for it 100% out of pocket, so we also didn't feel obligated to name anyone.)

We are doing "together with our families". Realistically, just my father should be mentioned if it goes off who pays the most. But that seems mean to do, so we are just saying our families in general.

I like everyone's suggestion of "together with our families" or parents.

So it would read:

together with our families

Holly Lastname

and

Groom Lastname

invite you to their wedding....

Emily post addresses the FORMAL way of doing it if you want: http://emilypost.com/advice/samples-of-formal-wedding-invitation-wording/

http://emilypost.com/advice/guide-to-addressing-correspondence/

In your case it would read:

Mrs. Joshua Zimmerli (your moms husbands name)

and

Ms. Mothersfirst Motherslast

and

Mr. Fathersfirst Father last and Ms. Firstname Lastname

request the honour of your presence

at the marriage of

Holly Middlename Lastname

to

Mr. Groom Middlename Lastname

Saturday, the twenty-fifth of August

two thousand fifteen

at four o’clock

St. James Catholic Church

Grand Rapids, Michigan

FWIW I do think the above is ridiculous!

We did:

Bride's Father and Stepmom

Bride's Mom

Groom's Father and Mom

Request the honor of your presence at the marriage of their children

Sydney LastName

&

FirstName LastName (FH)

My Husband and I paid for everything ourselves, but wanted to mention our parents so our wording was "We invite you to join us for our wedding. My Name...daughter of Mrs. Jane Doe and the late Mr. John Doe and H's Name son of Mr. and Mrs Jack Smith" While they didn't contribute financially we wanted to honor them on the invites. Perhaps something like that could work?