Parents name on invitations questions

Adding middle names is very, very formal. Is it an especially formal wedding/invitation?

I've never seen it with the dad's middle name.

I've never seen it. I suppose you could do: Mr. and Mrs. John Henry Smith...but it's very formal and if you put one middle name for a parent, you need to put them all.

Nope. 1pm wedding. casual wedding. They invites are my parents, then his parents:

Mr. Mike Smith and Mrs. Ann Doe

with

Mr. and Mrs. Tom Sawyer.

invite to children blah blah

Brides first middle last

and

Grooms First middle last

eta: It's a daytime church wedding, so dressy casual, i guess it the right formality

Does he go by his middle name? I am putting my dad's full name on our invites because everyone knows him by his middle name, and not his first name. If that's the case, I can understand. If not, I think just first and last would be perfect!

It is something that's done, but only on very formal invitations, like @AprilBride said. If that's not the feel you want your wedding to have then don't do it.

Between the two of us my FH and I have 4 dads and 2 moms that are hosting the wedding with us and it seemed excessive to include all of them on the invite, so instead we just said something like "Together with our families..." It helped us avoid trying to decide what order to put them in, and how to fit such a long list of parents on the simple, flat invite.

@FutureMrsY I agree with the "Together with our families" piece. We are also doing that, otherwise our invite will get really long with all the names.

I would skip is based on the fact that your wedding is not that formal. If you were throwing a super elegant affair, then I could see it (although I have never seen it done before).

I think they would be upset if they didnt have their names on it, but my parents are divorced and remarried, so extra names or initials will be long, and like people our wedding isn't that formal

No middles.

We received an invitation from a friends daughter who is getting married this February. When they were wording the invitations, she asked what I thought if the invitation read Mr. & Mrs. James J. Smith invite you to the wedding of their daughter. I told her I've never seen it, but there's always a first time. And that's how the invitations are worded.

Just a side note also, normally the names that appear on the invitation are the people who financially contributed to the wedding in some way. DH and I paid for the bulk of ours so we left our parents' names small. If it is an adult couple paying their own wedding, it is only (typically) their names. If you want to put "together with their families", it is totally acceptable. But if your parents and his parents are contributing a lot, I would suggest having their names (skip the middle initial) as the ones requesting the guests' presence (as they are technically throwing the party if they are paying).