Paying own Wedding / Invitations

[rpingree001]

My FI and I are paying for our wedding completely ourselves. Should the formal invitations still list both of our parents (who will be in attendance) as the one's requesting our guests to come?

 

I'm assuming we just have some type of invitiation saying we request their presence but didn't know what others experience has been.

[JanineA]

We are paying for our wedding this is how we worded ours:

 

Together with their families

Janine X

and

Christopher Y

request the honour of your presence

at the celebration of their marriage

Saturday the thirteenth of November

Two Thousand and Ten

At four o'clock in the afternoon

 

The Somerset on Grace Bay

Princess Drive

Providenciales, Turks & Caicos

 

Hope this helps. I will try to post a link to a site that has wording suggestions depending on the type of wedding etc.

[JanineA]

I found the link here it is, it tells you how to word your invitations based on if your parents are hosting, FI's parents hosting, bride and groom hosting and all types of various styles:

Wedding Invitations Wording And Etiquette by HelloLucky.com

[tracy0716]

Very similar to Janine's:

 

Tracy Ann x

and

George Vincent x

request the honor of your presence

at their marriage

on Friday, the sixteenth of July

Two thousand ten

at five o'clock

Paradisus Palma Real

Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

 

My mom was with me when we chose our invitations and she agreed completely that our parents' names didn't need to be included since they are not paying for our wedding.

[debbmach]

Quote:

Originally Posted by tracy0716 Very similar to Janine's: Tracy Ann x and George Vincent x request the honor of your presence at their marriage on Friday, the sixteenth of July Two thousand ten at five o'clock Paradisus Palma Real Punta Cana, Dominican Republic My mom was with me when we chose our invitations and she agreed completely that our parents' names didn't need to be included since they are not paying for our wedding.

mine was similar to this...i didn't mention my parents or family at all. it's us that want them there and are making that request.

[Shoesiesluvr]

we are not including neither of our parents on our invites...we are 100% paying for our wedding ourselves. but we are doing a special acknowledgement to our parents during our ceremony and our ceremony programs will have a special thank you note dedicated to them.

[Sheree10]

We're paying for it ourselves also( glad to see that we're not alone). I wanted to choose wording that acknowledges both sets of parents anyway so this is what we did:

 

 

Bride

Daughter of Mr.and Mrs. X

And

Groom

Son of Mr. and Mrs. X

 

invite you to share in the joy

when they exchange

marriage vows

and begin their new life together

[rpingree001]

Thank you for the tips! I wasn't sure on the etiquette and I like the acknowledgements to the parents without listing them on the invitation. Thanks girls!!

[LChavez]

I just found out about this yesterday. I hadn't even thought about it. I think ours will say we're inviting our guests and we will mention our parents in the programs.

[jennster_04]

We paid for our entire wedding so we did not put our parents name in the invitations