As the parents of the groom, we requested a different wording on the invitation than what the bride has chosen. The chosen invite is something like this: Mr. and Mrs. ............. Ask God to bless the marriage of their daughter............. to ............... Son of Mr. and Mrs. .............. We feal that this sounds like just the brides wedding, not our sons and that we are pretty much out of the picture...uninvolved in our sons life if not dead. Nothing could be further from the truth. When we asked to change the wording we were told that the brides parents want it this way and if we want it changed we could pay for the wedding. We have never even met these people. Is this an acceptable way of wording the invitation? To me it is hurtfull and embarrassing.
This is the traditional wording if the bride's parents are hosting the wedding. If the grooms parents are also paying then their names would be included on the invitation.
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Let's see....brides parents said they would pay up to XXX dollars for wedding...but gave bride a list of things they would not pay for, including dress, invitations and DJ as well as a few other things. They also said no alcohol. We have always been under the impression that alcohol at the reception and the rehearsal dinner were the groom's family responsibility and were happy to take care of that. Since no alcohol was going to be served we gave our son XXX dollars to be used for what he and his fiance wanted to use it for and told them we would take care of the rehearsal dinner. Would you consider that the bride's parent are hosting this wedding? Or does the dollar amounts determine this?
What you have listed here would be a gift from you to your son and his bride. In order to be considered as host you should be paying for specific items. The rehearsal dinner is not included here since that is it's own event with you as the hosts. Top Wedding Questions Forum Moderator - "Write your sorrows in the sand, your blessings in stone".
Invitation Wording
