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Shelly
Devoted January 2021

Invitation wording

Shelly, on June 23, 2019 at 4:42 PM Posted in Etiquette and Advice 0 7
So my father is paying for most of the big ticket items in our wedding. Me and FH are also paying for a lot of vendors and decorations ourselves. My mother bought my dress. His family has not contributed but I didn't expect them to. He does not know his father and his mother would offer to help if she could afford it. No biggie. We are very grateful for the help we have received because we could not do it all ourselves and I know not every bride has that luxury. I am starting to work on formal invitations.... curious as to how to word them. From my understanding the names of the people who host the wedding are the first on the invitation. I've seen the parents of the brides names, the bride and grooms name, and "together with their families". Also my parents are divorced. I don't want to put both of their names and take away from all my father did, because without him there would be no wedding. I also don't want to say "together with their families" to again take away from what my father has done. But if I just put my father's name, I could offend my mother who graciously paid for my gown. Also I would want to include me and FH as the host because we are spending a great deal of money ourselves. Do I sound like a brat? Idk how to handle this...

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Latest activity by Michelle, on June 24, 2019 at 12:42 PM
  • CourtneyBrittain
    Master August 2019
    CourtneyBrittain ·
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    So who all are you wanting to include on the invitation? I’m sorry, I am a little confused.
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  • Gen
    Champion June 2019
    Gen ·
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    We also had a similarly tricky situation. We just didn’t include anyone’s names but our own on the invitation.
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  • SummerBrideInAutumn
    VIP October 2019
    SummerBrideInAutumn ·
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    I was in a somewhat similar situation. FH and I are footing 90% of the bill. My mom is doing the other 10%. My dad and his parents contributed nothing but he didn’t want to offend his parents. We didn’t list any hosts. Our invitations just started out “The pleasure of your company is requested at the marriage of...”
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  • Laura
    Super September 2026
    Laura ·
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    We just did our names and then added "together with our/their parents" ... etc. The people you are considering leaving out are family. Mom and his parents. I wouldn't burn those bridges. This really shouldn't be about money and making it so seems unkind.

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  • MOB So Cal
    January 2019
    MOB So Cal ·
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    More traditional on our end. We paid about 75% of the cost and FOG paid 25%. MOG couldn't afford anything, and she is a very difficult personality with both G and FOG. Daughter & SIL graciously decided to provide a "united front" on the invitations. The invitations had FOB & my names as parents of the bride, and after SIL's name said, "son of ...." with both parents' first and last names.

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  • MrsD
    Legend July 2019
    MrsD ·
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    We put "together with their families" even though my father is paying 40k towards our wedding and my mother/stepfather are paying 10k. We aren't paying anything, and neither are his parents. We are going to thank my parents in our welcome speech at the reception & my father will be the only parent to give a speech at the wedding.

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  • Michelle
    Super August 2019
    Michelle ·
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    What if you just did as SummerBrideInAutumn said and put “The pleasure of your company is requested at the marriage of...” and you could mention your father (and/or anyone else) in a special thank you at the reception. Something like "We'd like to thank you all for coming and we'd like to give a special thank you to (name) for blah blah..."
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