Putting both parents names on invite- still married.

Www.versit.com is a REALLY nice website that can help you a whole lot with versing your invites and such, it lets you pick what kind of "event" you're having, whether it be weddings (in this case) or a birthday party, and it will give you a huge list of different types of verses for you to use. I hope this helps you, I know it helped me a lot.

Still married, but different last names?? I'm confused.

Here's a link to previous posts about addressing invites:

https://www.weddingwire.com/wedding-forums-search-results?cx=001510200069945039677%3Ab2kwgfgdebc&cof=FORID%3A11&ie=UTF-8&q=addressing+invites

I probably should have a clarified a little better. They are still married to each other. Instead of putting Mr. and Mrs. Jerome X request the pleasure....I want it to say Mr. Jerome X and Mrs. Lisa X or something similar to that nature. All I've been finding are ways to phrase their names if they are divorced or deceased.

Is it both your parents and his parents or just one or the other?

In the celebration of love...

BRIDE'S PARENTS

request the honour of your presence

at the marriage of their daughter

BRIDE

to

GROOM

on DAY

YEAR

at TIME

LOCATION

ADDRESS

CITY, STATE

You would fill in the words in all caps for your information, and you can put your mom and dads full names if you want to

My parents are hosting, but I am recognizing his parents.

This is the wording I have so far:

Mr. Jerome and Mrs. Lisa X

request the honor of your presence

at the marriage of their daughter

Briony Danielle

to

Shawn Patrick

son of Mr. William and Mrs. Elizabeth X

Saturday, the Twenty-Third of June

Two Thousand and Twelve

Five O’Clock in the Evening

Generally, if they are still married to each other you wouldn't list them separate. IMO, it sounds funny reading it out loud.

Also, it should read "Two Thousand Twelve" - nix the 'and'.

Mr. and Mrs. Jerome X

request the honor of your presence

at the marriage of their daughter

Briony Danielle

to

Shawn Patrick

son of Mr. and Mrs. William X

Saturday, the Twenty-Third of June

Two Thousand and Twelve

Five O’Clock in the Evening

After countless hours of searching I found a website that gives me the guideline of including a mother's name.

http://soinvitingdesigns.net/pdf/wording.pdf

@ Ashley. I would normally follow the traditional set-up of the still married parents, but I wanted to acknowledge my mother in the invitation, especially since she raised me alone while my father was out at sea (Navy). Call it the feminist inside of me.

However, thank you for pointing out the two thousand twelve correction.

And you had a few too many capitalizations....

twenty-third

thousand twelve

o'clock evening

Glad you found your answer.

Welcome to WW, hope you stick around and tell us more of your wedding

I realized that I did get capitalization happy. I had to go back and edit it down. Thankfully we have time to make sure all grammar is correct.

Traditionally it would be Mr. and Mrs. Dad Lastname, but I think Mr. and Mrs. Dad and Mom Lastname sounds fine.

Also, the "and" does stay in Two thousand and twelve. Normally we don't say it like this, but for formal invitations we do. Think back to the nineties, wedding invitations and graduation announcements then read something like nineteen hundred and ninety-five, not nineteen ninety five.

We were going through something similar. I was told formal etiquette on invitations for married couples is Mr. & Mrs. John Doe, but my FH thought his mother would feel left out if her name wasn't spelled out on the invitation. Then, my mother and father are no longer together, and my father is remarried. To accomodate everyone, our invite reads

Ms. Jane Doe and Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Do II
request the honor of your presence at the marriage of their daughter

Moon Doe
to
John Smith
son of Mr. John and Mrs. Jane Smith

on the first of March
three o'clock in the afternoon
two thousand twelve

Venue
Address
City

It looks look on this screen, but actually looks nice on the invite proof and everyone should be happy.

Hope that helps.

You could leave out the Mr. and Mrs. and just say John and Jane Doe.