Wedding fiance''s parents on invitations

[musincy]

My parents are paying for the wedding, but I would like to include my fiance''s parents names on our invitations as well. Do you have recommendations for wording so I can include both, but not take away from the fact that my parents are the ones hosting the wedding?

 

[dragonfly411]

Maybe say -

The giving of Musincy''s hand by "musincy''s parents names" parents and hosts

to

Mr. Musincy

Son of "Mr. Musincy''s parents names"

 

[neatfreak]

We just said " C and A, along with their parents, invite you" or something like that. But then again it was ALL of us hosting together, so I''m not sure that helps you if you guys aren''t contributing at all.

 

[dragonfly411]

I wanna reword

Musincy''s parents would like to invite you to the marriage of

musincy

to
mr musincy

son of "mr musincy''s parents"

might work better

 

[cara]

You can either leave your parents alone in the role of hosts and name his parents only as his parents, ie. some variant of:
Mr. and Mrs. Musincy request the pleasure of your company at the marriage of
Musincy
and
Mr. X
son of Mr. and Mrs. X

or you can throw caution to the wind and list all parents as co-hosts:
Mr. and Mrs. Musincy
Mr. and Mrs. X
request the pleasure of your company at the marriage of ...

Hosting is not the same as paying, so you are not required to word your invite to reflect financial contributions, but if your parents would care about such things than it is best to go with the more traditional top wording.

We used "together with their parents..." but did not list our parents by name. (Divorces on both sides makes for a long list.) For listing parents by name I prefer one of the two options above.

 

[kellybelly]

We are paying for the entire wedding ourselves from soup to nuts.
However, in order to honor our parents, we are printing the following:

Mr. and Mrs. His Parents
and
Mrs. My Mom
request the honour of your presence
at the marriage of their children

Me
and
Him

They raised us for 30 years, so we thought they deserved a share of the spotlight.

I''m not even sure what "hosting" means, unless you are from two different cities and the wedding is in one of them. I have been to lots of weddings and couldn''t tell you who the host was at any of them because it''s not a clear cut thing any more.

 

[pocahontas]

Date: 10/9/2008 6:32:14 PM
Author: cara
Mr. and Mrs. Musincy request the pleasure of your company at the marriage of

Musincy

and

Mr. X

son of Mr. and Mrs. X

If it''s important to you and your parents to make the distinction, I''d go with this more traditional wording.

 

[diamondfan]

I would do son of...

 

[gtn]

Date: 10/10/2008 12:02:34 AM
Author: diamondfan
I would do son of...

I vote for "son of x & y" too.