Wedding Forum - What to do with my mom...

Arghh that's annoying. She is probably thinking of a style that invites guests from them for your wedding, such as Mr and Mrs Brown requests the honor of the presence of ..... at the marriage of their daughter Chloe to...... and then date etc.
All a little old fashioned. Maybe you could say it's a sweet idea but you don't feel it would be well suited as you and your h2b live together. Or sonething along those lines.

My parents rnt helping alot at all but they r helping so im giving them the choice wether invites r coming from them or us.. or u cud have something like the above or the families of. Or name and name together wjth their families or something


My parents have full choice im happy to do it anyway as i said their money is helping even tho 90% of wedding is paid by us :-)

Mob r VERY involved if anything like mine i wish she wud back off a little but shes just excited i have to keep reminding myself lol x

I think it's nice to put parents on the invitations, as whovianbride2b said above. Our parents are helping us financially so we are saying 'Bride and Groom together with their parents invite you to....' My parents are offering a lot more help than OH's parents but we are still including both sets as I think it's just respectful xx

my parents are paying for my whole wedding and my mum did say to me she would like to send the invites out from her and my dad which seeing as they are giving us thousands of pounds i was more then happy for her to have that little bit of say but anything else I'm like ok mum back off its my decision lol
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The traditional idea was the brides parents threw the wedding (financially speaking) so they invited people and the invitation stated they wished "name" to come and celebrate the wedding of "daughters name and h2b's name" Presumably, if you went down the fully traditional route, you would still have an input into the guest list.

I guess it's really up to you how traditional you want to be on the matter. If someone was paying the majority of my wedding, I would personally want them to feel involved with the majority of decisions, but ultimately, I would want the final say. We are paying for our own wedding and my mum doesn't interfere at all, but I still want to involve her in the planning process. Quite the opposite to you, she seems quite disinterested, never asks or makes suggestions, but hopefully as it gets closer, she will take more of an interest.

As a mum myself, I'd like to offer my children any financial help we can, without stipulations and I want to pay an interest in the details. In real life though, we can get carried away with excitement, easily over step barriers and take for granted that our ideas are the obvious choices! I do hope I am more involved than disinterested though!!