Since I got such quick advice on this site already I'm posing another question.
My father passed away this past July. I have read many things regarding the etiquette around putting his name on my invitation. I feel very strongly that he needs to be on the invitation. My mother is hosting the wedding and the only samples that I have seen make it sound as if the couple is hosting the wedding. I played around with one of these templates and came up with something that I thought could work. My mother likes it. Her name will also be the return address on the invite as well as where the response cards go to so I think it will be obvious who the host is. Please let me know what you think of this.
A day of happy beginnings...
We invite you to share with us a celebration of love when Diane and the late Raymond Smith's daughter Donna Marie
and Ronald Mark White are joined in marriage on Saturday, the eleventh of June Two-thousand and five at four-thirty in the afternoon Sapphire Beach Resort and Marina Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands
There are other ways of honoring your dad during the ceremony. If you want those ways please post under ceremony forum.
The way you have worded this invitation implies both parents are hosting the event. Since you dad unfortunately cannot be hosting or issuing the invitation please consider rewording.
The special wording for this type of invitation overrides the issue of who is hosting the wedding (as per Emily Post's Etiquette) so:
We invite you to share with us a celebration of love when Donna Marie
Daughter of Mrs. Bride's Mother and the late Mr. Bride's Father
and Ronald Mark White
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Groom's Name
are joined in marriage on Saturday, the eleventh of June Two-thousand and five at four-thirty in the afternoon Sapphire Beach Resort and Marina Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands
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Deceased Parent
