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Chiara
Newbie December 2018 Ontario

Grooms parents are divorced.

Chiara, on February 15, 2018 at 11:57 Posted in Ontario 0 7

I am starting to prepare wedding invitation wording and I am stuck. Does anyone know how to word the invitation when one set of parents are divorced?

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Latest activity by Chiara, on February 23, 2018 at 14:16
  • Chiara
    Newbie December 2018 Ontario
    Chiara ·
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    Great advice everyone! Thank you for your support on this.

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  • Brittany
    British Columbia
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    My two invitations I'm deciding between have one without parents mentioned, and one with. My parents are the ones divorced, so I was just going to have it say "together with their loving parents"... because that includes everyone, including my step dad.

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  • Lor
    Frequent user August 2018 Ontario
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    My parents are separated as well. We chose to just put our names are inviting for the wedding.

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  • Chiara
    Newbie December 2018 Ontario
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    Thanks everyone for the advice! His parents are divorced and have S/O but are not married to them; my parents are married. I was thinking of just putting my parents as Mr. and Mrs. and to put his parents as their full names.

    Although neither of our parents are helping financially with the wedding, we still want to be able to honor them in the invitation and any other way that we can.

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  • Joey
    WeddingWire Admin May 2015 Maryland
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    Unless they are co-hosting (ie financially contributing) or you really want to, you can actually easily skip including the parents of the groom on the invitation. Traditional structure for an invite would be:

    FATHER and MOTHER LASTNAME

    request the honour of your presence at the marriage of their daughter

    YOURFIRST YOURMIDDLE

    to

    FUTURESPOUSE FULLNAME

    at DATE AND TIME ETC

    ___

    If you want to skip and name awkwardness and include everyone on the invitation you I'd go with Erin's suggestion or some form of it.

    ___

    You can also skip all names with something like:

    The honour of your presence is requested at the marriage of

    YOUR NAME

    and
    PARTNERS NAME

    ___

    If you want to include the FILs all by name I would do something like:

    FATHER and MOTHER LASTNAME

    request the pleasure of your company at the marriage of their daughter

    YOURFIRST YOURMIDDLE
    to
    HIS FULL NAME

    son of
    STEPDAD and MOM Smith

    DAD and STEPMOM Jones

    (for anyone else working this out, I've done this for a bride and groom couple to meet the OP's situation, but amend any pronouns and titles as needed to apply it to a same sex couple or one with same sex parents)

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  • Darsh
    Newbie July 2018 Ontario
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    I am in the same situation and was also running out of space on my card to add all the parents names etc. So we decided to go with "Together with our parents"

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  • Erin
    Master September 2017 Ontario
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    You could say something like "Jane Smith and John Hancock, along with their parents, invite you to join them in the celebration of their marriage".

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