Can you all please help me? Our wedding invitation is scheduled in to be completed next month (due to the companies holidays) and I seriously need help with the wording of it all......
How do I word the main invitation part? Myself and fiance are not keen on the "Mr and Mrs X invite u to the wedding of their daughter...." but we would like our parents mentioned on the invite - but the invite is from us. Thing is.... my h2bs mam is married to his stepdad and his dad (not a maj part of his life but coming to wedding) is married to his stepmum.... so how do u word that?
Insert 1 - RSVP and Menu card What on earth do you write on here? Our guests have an option of two courses so we need them to choose which one they would like - do I just simply list the courses and ask them to tick?
Insert 2 - Is this okay for a poem about the gifts? A lot of people have started asking us for our "gift list" and we really dont want gifts as we've lived together for nearly 2 years so we'd just rather if they are insistent that they want to give us something (personally i dont mind either way) that we just wanted to hint at some money towards our honeymoon?
We are sending out this invitation In hope you will join our celebration But if a gift is your intention May we take this opportunity to mention A contribution to our honeymoon pot Would be appreciated such a lot But the most important thing to say We hope you are there to celebrate our day!
(i dont know if the last two lines makes sense? any advice or rewording would be greately appreciated!)
I'm sorry to trouble you all with this but im not good word wise and I obviously need to get this right
xxxx
Happily Married! :) xxx
CommentAuthorMel D
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How about "Nicola Ross and Jamie Knowles together with their families invite xxx to celebrate their wedding" ?
Menu card: I would just list the options with a tick box.
Poem is lovely and totally makes sense :-)
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CommentAuthorBeckyU98
if you want to include parents on invite then put something like
Jane Smith & John Doe together with their parents request the pleasure of your company
to celebrate their marriage.......
xx
CommentAuthorBeckyU98
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RSVP will be something like this
Name: ________________________________ [ ] Would be Delighted to Accept
[ ] Regretfully Cannot Accept
[ ] Evening Only The Favour of a Reply is Requested by 31/12/2013
Then on the back you can have tickboxes for Menu Selection if you are offering a choice of menu:
Menu Selection Starter Main Dessert [ ] Option1 [ ] Option1 [ ] Option1 [ ] Option2 [ ] Option2 [ ] Option2 [ ] Option3 [ ] Option3 [ ] Option3 Please let us know of any Dietary Requirements: _______________________________________ Thank You.
CommentAuthorMrsLJDeaton
Just put the invitation from you and hubby to save arguments due to parents are separated and new partners just put from the pair of you I forgot to mention my parents or Chris's mum in the practice invites
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and yes its fine to put gift list poem in and yours sounds great x
CommentAuthorWhovianbride
Thetes a thread on different poems etc, including gift list honeymoon ones will see if i can find it an bump it
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CommentAuthorb2bnicola
Aw thanks lana
The thing is with a tick we would just get a quantity of how many courses are needed per group of people..... the venue has asked us for a detailed list of who wants want....
so is there a way of saying "put your name next to the course you want?"
I dont want to upset my parents by not putting their names on, even though we want our invites from me and jay.... so i was thinking to get a select few say "mr and mrs x invite you....... bla bla" just to go out to my family - but then thats complicated lol
ahhhhhh i dunno what to do!
his parents arent paying a penny towards the wedding, and mine are paying about 60% so im not sure on the etiquette lol
x
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CommentAuthorb2bnicola
Ive changed the poem
Which do u prefer? My 1st one **above** or :
We are sending out this invitation In hope you will join our celebration But if a gift is your intention May we take this opportunity to mention A contribution to our honeymoon pot Would be appreciated such a lot But most importantly we request, That you come to our wedding as our guest!
xx
Happily Married! :) xxx
CommentAuthorkatielea100
B2bnicola I prefer your 2nd poem :) the last 2 lines flow better :) xx
CommentAuthorb2bnicola
Thanks katie! :)
Now to just tackle the invite wording lol x
Happily Married! :) xxx
CommentAuthorMrs T. 2 Be
This is what we have gone for ( feel free to steal/adapt)
INVITE
Emma Daughter of x and y & Kevin Son of x and y Would like to invite ********* To their forthcoming marriage as they become Mr & Mrs
My parents are divorced so for that we have put both my parents first and second name and for H2b have put just their first name and then their surname after both of their first names as it shows a difference (I hope that makes sense). Perhaps you could put son of (mum) and step son of (mums husband) and son of (dad) and step son of (dads wife)?
MENU we also are offering choices and I have made a card (the size of RSVP card) to send back with the boxes ticked, they will then be on the table on the day to help guests remember what they ordered and the venue staff.
Hope that helps a little?
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CommentAuthorMrs T. 2 Be
I have uploaded a picture of our Menu Choice Card to my Stationary album too.
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CommentAuthorNataleeM
im not at the stage yet hunny, but didnt want to read and run. Our invites will be as they are from our 2 little boys so will say something along the lines of mummy and daddy are getting married and we would like to invite bla bla bla also adding in menu choices same as Mrs T xxxx
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CommentAuthorb2bnicola
aw natalee that is so cute! i wish i had kids just to do that lol! would make like so much easier. had a word with my mum and dad and theyve (we'll say) expressed that if the invite doesnt say "Mr and Mrs x would like to invite you the the wedding of the daughter Nicola to x" etc that they would be unbelievably upset. I really dont want that. To me a lot of my life has been kinda in my dads shadow (hes my boss at work) and everyone already sees me as the boss' daughter and the majority of our friends and my h2bs family haven't met my parents so I would prefer for me and jay to invite everyone rather than my parents.
I'm seriously considering getting x no. of invites wrote the way they want just to post to my side of the family only, and the rest the way me and my h2b want it for everyone else.
x
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CommentAuthorJoannaS
I think thats a good idea having some done for your family from your parents and the rest of them from you and h2b saves all arguments x
CommentAuthorCharlieBe-Cool
Ours will probably say:
Justin & Charlotte Together with their families
Requst the pleasure of the company of
…………………………………………………………………………. To celebrate their marriage
At............................... on Friday 17 July 2015 at 2.00 P.M.
Evening reception to follow at 7.30pm
My parents are contributing but h2b's mum isnt, so slightly reluctant to have it from both families, but h2b doesnt want them coming from my parents, so this was the next best thing to keep everyone happy.
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CommentAuthorBeckyU98
our invites are coming from us as we are paying the majority of the wedding (£10,000). my parents are paying about £2500 and H2B Parents about £1000. i was thinking about putting them from my parents but they are divorced and it would just be a bit weird. i think it tends to be whoever is paying the most who is 'hosting' the wedding but you put whatever you like. personally if my parents had said that they would be really upset i would just do it for them just to save any arguments lol. its really not worth it and no-one will probably even notice xx
CommentAuthorKirsty
Ours simply states 'join us to be married' which seemed to go down well!
CommentAuthorTotallyLovedUp
isn't it tradition that the parents of the bride do the invites because it is their daughter they are giving away so they would say we are delighted to invite you to the wedding of our daughter or something like that? then if his lot go mad, you can say you were just sticking to tradition? x
CommentAuthorTotallyLovedUp
Mr. and Mrs. Smith invite you to join them in a celebration of love as their daughter, Bride, is united in marriage to Mr. Groom, son of Mr. and Mrs. Brown." like this??
CommentAuthorb2bnicola
Yeah thats my parents point that its tradition... but its just not us we're quite untraditional haha.
And yeah that would saying would work expect his parents are divorced and both remarried..... so it would be like 4 names plus theyre not helping us one lil bit towards wedding so my parents would be more upset if we did that lol just cant win
I think i might email my stationary woman and ask if she'll do half one way and half our way and then the parents invite will only go to my side of the family and fingers crossed they'll never find out :S x