Paying own Wedding / Invitations

[MsSmithtobe]

Yea, we are paying for the wedding ourselves, so I used this in my invite.

Because you have shared in our lives

By friendship and love,

We

Shari XXXX

&

Ryan XXXX

Invite you to share

The beginning of our new life together

As husband and wife

at an Oceanside ceremony

 

Saturday, the twelfth of March

Two thousand and eleven

5 PM

Iberostar Rose Hall Suites

Montego Bay, Jamaica

[KittenHeart]

We too paid 100% and didn't mention our parents, especially since mine weren't in attendance.

[islandbride317]

My invitations were also "sans parents" since the bulk of the cost was on us.

 

We had our invitations read as follows:

 

One love. Two hearts.

Their future starts, beside the sea.

 

The honor of your presence is requested

at the marriage ceremony of

BRIDE'S NAME

and

GROOM'S NAME

on (spell out the day of the week, month, and year)

at (spell out what time of the day it will be)

 

SPELL OUT THE NAME OF THE RESORT

SPELL OUT THE AREA, COUNTRY (in which you DW is taking place)

 

There you have it, sugar!

[Mrs Price 2010]

We've been very blessed and both our families have contributed towards our wedding, but this left us with the same predicament - do we mention all of there names (FI parents are divorced and re-married as well!) or none of them! In the end we decided on.....

 

"Together with their parents Tom and Emily would like to request the pleasure of........."

[midnight24]

we were originally paying 100% for our wedding then my parents offered some assistance and DH father, but not his mother. we decided to not 'single' out anyone so we worded our formal invites with...

 

'together with our families

please join us...

etc'

 

it worked out great no one knew and no one complained and all parents were happy we listed them.

[nessa0308]

Thanks for the advise. We are also paying for our entire wedding and didnt know how to word the invites. Thanks for the suggestions.