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Invitation wordings..............

For the dinner/reception info, if it is at the same location as the ceremony, this info can be at the bottom of the invite:

"Reception to follow at six o’clock in the evening
Henrietta Banquet Hall
168 Main Drive
City, Province/State"

If the reception is at a different location, it goes on a reception card with that information.

For the wording on the invitation, I had a similar dilemma. My parents are paying for half the wedding and I wanted to have just their names on it, but I didn't want to rub salt in the wound with my FI's parents (there are other reasons their names were not going to be on the invite), so I just used

"Together with our parents
First Middle Last     --->brides name here
and
First Middle Last      --->grooms name here
Request the honour of your presence ("request the pleasure of your company" is used in this place if it is held outside of a church)"

Hope that helps. You can also check out www.verseit.com for other wording ideas that might give you a solution. Normally whichever parents are footing the bill for the wedding will have their names on the invite. So if both sets of parents are paying, both sets of parents should have their names on the invite, if only one set of parents is contributing financially to the wedding, then only their names would go on the invite.

I went to theamericanwedding.com, acted like I was buying invitations (put in a number for invites and reception cards) and got the wording for my invites. (Did not order from them, just set up the information) If the parents are hosting, def put their names on the invites. If the reception is immediately after, do like I did, and put put "Reception following ceremony." That website can also give you wording for your reception cards.

Hope this helps. Happy planning!

For the parents, you can also put "daughter of Mr. X and the late Ms. X" if that helps. Just thought I would add it in case you like it and it cuts down on the disagreement.

You would word it with your parents names if they are paying for the wedding really..........we said "..............&.............along with our parents would like to invite"

We just wrote the wedding ceremony at 3pm.....you could always write with reception to follow at..............