Invitations

Hi Monica,

If your families are helping out with the wedding, definitely include their names on the invitations. If they aren't helping, but you still want to honor them in a special way, add their names in. Or you could just write something along the lines of "Together with our parents *insert names*, you're invited to the wedding of *you and fiances name*. Plenty of templates online with wording to help you!

Hi, you should write just names of bride and groom.)

We just put our names since although our parents are helping us pay for the wedding (in the ways of, they're giving us a set amount of money), they're not hosting and planning the wedding.

View quoted message I got them from Vista. Quality is great for the price and they have lots of beautiful designs. Really like that you can customize it to your liking as well

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I heard a lot of ppl used them but I designed my own invites and also have specific printing requirements so I got them printed at a vendor at Alibaba.

I included both parents' names even though we pay for our own wedding just to pay respect to them.

Where did everyone get their invites? Wondering if anyone has used Vista Print or Minted?

We did not include our parents names as my parents have divorced and both remarried and my FH parents are still together. we kept it simple and just wrote "together with their families"..

My fiancé and I had our invitations read: Bride Name & Groom Name, together with their parents Bride Mother & Bride Father and Groom Mother & Groom Father invite you to share their joy as they join in marriage on.....

I did not choose to include our parents name on the invitation, this was a personal choice. It is completely up to you on this part! There was an area where we could write our names and we did so in those areas

View quoted message Thanks Vinod! Some of my relatives are way too traditional for me and always have something negative to say.. they have been talking amongst themselves that we did not include my parents name.. makes me quite upset and I know it shouldn’t because I’m the end, it’s our day and we do it the way we want.. but relatives can be so frustrating sometimes! My parents are totally fine with not having their names on the invites lol. It’s just the extended family that always has something negative to say! 🙄

My parents are very traditional, so they wanted their names on our invitations (they also gave us a lot of money for the wedding). I felt like we then needed to be fair to all the parents, so we put Mr. and Mrs. Bride's Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Grooms dad and step mom, and Ms. Groom's mom. It sounds like a lot of names, but it did work and made everyone happy.

Originally I just wanted our names, but I knew it meant a lot to my mom to have their names. At the end of the day, it wasn't a battle worth fighting, and everyone was happy with the result.

Technically, it’s whoever pays for it. Our parents pitched in, so we put (my name) and (husbands name) along with their parents invite you...
but, I had a friend whose parents paid, so their invitations read (brides parents) invite you to the wedding of their daughter (brides name) to (grooms name). Another friend, her and her husband paid it all themselves, so they said (brides name) and (grooms name) invite you...

I wrote our names and "along with our parents"

no names for them.

Don't let your guests say what they feel is to be done. Its you the couple who decides what can be done and how you want to look at the way you phrase it. It also depends if the parents are contributing to the wedding that you want to include both sets of names or just one family.

We just did the same you did as to the grooms names keeping it simple. No one said anything or in anyway that was bad. When it comes to other families, they may feel disappointed if their names as parents are not on the invites. It will hurt them, though at the end of the day its all about their kids big day.

Thanks for all your reassurance, ladies!! We put just our names but some family members were making comments that parents names should be included... made me double think our invites and got me stressing, since we’ve sent them out and too late to change..

We just put our names on it. We did it that way because we were the ones paying for it.

We also just put "and families" for the sake of having less writing on the invites. Some parents are a little more old fashion and like to have their names on the invitations so you can always ask them what they would prefer as well.

We just went with “together with their families” because everyone’s kind of pitching money into the wedding so it seemed fair without being a novel

I think it depends on the vibe of your wedding.

If you're going for the traditional/formal feel, then adding the parents' names is customary.

Since we're going for a casual feel, we're putting "together with their families" and only using our first names, instead of our full names.

We’re going to put our parents names. It’s tradition and I just really like it!

I think including your/his parents name is very traditional and i think only included if they are paying for the majority of the wedding. We didn't include our parent's names on the invitations.

For our invitations, we put "together with our families" and then both of our names.

It kept the amount of wording to a minimum so the invites don't look like a huge essay lol