Wording on invites

My fiancé and I are paying for our own wedding, his parents are back in Sri Lanka and not really involved and my dad isn't in the picture. So we're doing some kind of wording for just us 'inviting family and friends to share in our special day' or something like that. You have a world of options

This is ours, we changed the wording. It is our first marriage but we felt it very old fashioned that including our parents who arent paying for a thing be included.

I would just put mine and my FH's name.

As usual you guys have been super helpful. Thanks for all the replies!

We paid for the wedding ourselves, plus his parents aren't together so we just put our names. Here's our invites:

Kael (Gates) Doll & Tori Kamfoly invite you to share in their mutual weirdness.... lol have fun with it!

Similar situation for us - no mention of anyone but the two of us on our invites!

We paid for our wedding ourselves, so ours was “together with their families”

When my mom and stepdad got married they used their names and not their parents names.

We are going by who is paying for the wedding, which is my fiancé and I. So there won’t be “the parents of fill in the blank invite you.” If you would like to include the parents you could say “together with our parents and then your full name (middle names if you prefer) and fiancé’s full name request the honour of your presence.” Or something along those lines.

We are paying so parents won't be on invites. Also in our 40's. Second marriage for first for FH

I don't feel like you would need to keep the parents part unless you like it.


We haven't finalized our invitations yet, but we plan to ditch the "parents invite you to" bit and go with a more "hey we're finally getting married" vibe!

It depends on who is hosting (ie. paying). Assuming you are footing the bill yourselves, you would be the hosts and therefore guests would be invited by you and not your parents.