I need some ideas for wording our invitations!?

Question

My fiance's mother passed away 8 years ago, and his father has remarried. Is it proper to include his late mothers name in the invatation?
Also, we have three children, how could we word the invitations, so that the kids names will be on the invitations too?
Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

You cannot use his mother's name on the invitations. She passed away. Be nice to the father's new wife and include her.

Who are inviting the guests? If it is the bride's parents - the groom's parents or the couple itself? Being that you have three children allready, I presume you are inviting the guests? If so; how about letting your children invite?

We are so happy to see our parents (finally)marrying so and so where and when. We would love to see you blablabla so and so.

Good luck!

Answer 2

Is his dad paying? If not, I would just have the kids names as who is inviting the people. Something like X, Y, and Z request the honour of your presence at the marriage of their parents, A & B.......

As far as your fiance's mother, you can have her mentioned at the beginning of the ceremony in rememberance. That's what we did at our wedding with our grandparents that had passed away and everyone thought it was very touching and special.

If you have his mother, father, and father's new wife, along with the kids and your names on the invites, it may get too confusing, and a lot of times, the grooms parents aren't mentioned on the invites because traditionally, the person paying for the wedding is the one requesting the presence of the guests. A lot of times, the parents of the bride do that, so that is why their names are on it.

Good luck!

Answer 3

You can go a bunch of different ways with this. Sadly, it is not customary to mention the names of deceased parents on wedding invitations. You don't mention who is paying for this wedding which is usually what determines the wording of the invitations. I've never heard of children's names being on the wedding invitations, usually there is a family part of the ceremony. That's not to say that you can't do your invitations however you want, it's just not customary. I think it would be nice to include the kids. Some examples follow based on your name being Jane Smith and your fiance's being John Doe.

Jane Marie Smith
and
John Paul Doe
Request the honour of your presence

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Smith
Request the honour of your presence
at the marriage of his daughter
Miss Jane Marie Smith
to
Mr. John Paul Doe

Katie, Justin, and Ethan Doe
Request the honour of your presence
at the marriage of their parents
Miss Jane Marie Smith
and
Mr. John Paul Doe

I really like the wording with your kids name, I think it's nice.

You can also have it say Request the pleasure of your company, or

invite you to share in their love
and happiness as they exchange
vows of marriage and begin their
new life together

It all depends how formal you want to be. Good luck

Answer 4

I recently received a unique looking handmade wedding invitation from my grandpa's niece whom I haven't seen since we were 5 years old and the wedding invitation only included the bride,groom and their daughter's name. I thought it was kind of cool since I haven't seen anything like it.
You don't have to include both of your parents' names and your fiance's stepmother on the invitation because it would be a hassle and plus, they are not the one's to get married you are! So just put the bride,groom and your children's names on the invitation. You can word something like for example (I'm going to use bogus names by the way):

Jenna, David, and Elizabeth Stemple-Garner are pleased to announce the marriage of their parents:

JoAnna Rose Stemple and Michael Robert Garner

on Saturday, June 12, 2006 at St. Veronica's Church in Los Angeles,CA
at 2:00pm

The Reception will be at the Hillton Hotel at 5:00pm in Palo Alto, CA

(Include driving directions to both facilities)

You can also include a timeline of your life together on the wedding invitation on the left side of the card to fill up the extra gap. For example:

JoAnna and Michael first meet! ~ August 20, 1990
JoAnna gets her PHD in Physics~ May 11, 1991
Jenna Kay is born~ December 1, 1992
3 Muskeeters (JoAnna,Michael,Jenna) move to Portland, Oregon~ January 10, 1993
David Charles is born~ October 16, 1994
Jenna rocks the science fair~ September 21, 2002
Our surprise bundle of joy, Elizabeth Marie is born~ December 25, 2003
The whole gang moves to California~ June 25, 2005
JoAnna and Michael tie the knot! ~ July 10, 2006

Also, include a self addressed postcard so guests can check off "Yes, I'll be at the wedding!" or "No, we are unable to come" and some boxes where your guests can check off what they want to eat: chicken,fish,vegetarian,pig,beef,etc

Hope this helps! Good luck! :)

Answer 5

I don't know how formal you want your invitation to be... but I'd suggest using your kids as the invitees.

John, Judy and Jason Smith request the honor of your presence at the marriage of XXX and XXX.

Answer 6

you can use the phrase "together with their parents" So and So and So and So (you can add kids names here too) invite you to join them in celebration of love, as they enter the sacred bond of marriage etc. etc. on such and such date...

this way it is up for interpretation on who is included in the "parents"
hope this helps

Answer 7

LISTEN TO THIS,IF IT IS OK WITH THE GROOM THEN JUST WORD IT LIKE (MR.JAMES JOHNSON AND THE "LATE" MRS.SARAH JOHNSON).AS FOR THE KIDS,TRY USING "ALONG WITH (NAMES OF CHILDREN) " WISH TO ANNOUNCE THE WEDDING OF .........THE ADVISED IT'S NOT CUSTOMARY TO HAVE THE CHILDREN'S NAME LISTED BUT AGAIN IT'S YOUR THANG',DO WHATCHA' WANNA' DO!HOPE THIS HELPS.

Answer 8

yes you should include her name..........after all he is son of that woman....Make a passive sentence on kid's name....

Answer 9

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