See options below for your wedding invitation wording:

Invitation with Reception Card

Mother has remarried

Divorced parents host the wedding

One parent is deceased

Couple is hosting the wedding

Wording examples

The invitation wording suggestions above will not include every
wedding contingency, but will include the most common.

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Proper Wedding
Invitation Wording

Traditional Wedding Invitation Wording - with reception card:

Mr. and Mrs. John Michael Mahon
request the honor of your presence
at the marriage of their daughter
Teri Louise
to
Mr. Maxwell James Mason
on Saturday, the eighteenth of May
at one o'clock in the afternoon
St. Luke's Episcopal Church
Dallas, Texas

Reception card:

Reception
immediately following the ceremony
42295 Lover's Lane
Dallas, Texas

Wedding Invitation Wording - when mother has remarried:

Mr. and Mrs. James Wellsley Haynes
request the honor of your presence
at the marriage of her daughter
Katharine Anne Jones

(Mother has remarried - father is deceased.)

Mr. and Mrs. James Wellsley Haynes

request the honor of your presence

at the marriage of her daughter

Katharine Ann Jones

daughter of Robert Ashton Jones

Wedding Invitation Wording - when divorced parents host the wedding:

Mrs. James Mark Harriman
and
Mr. Robert Allen Kirby
request the pleasure of your company
at the wedding of their daughter
Patricia Marie Kirby

Mr. and Mrs. James Mark Harriman
and
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Allen Kirby
request the pleasure of your company
at the marriage of
Patricia Marie

Wedding Invitation Wording - when one parent is deceased:

Mr. John Michael Mahon
requests the honor of your presence
at the marriage of his daughter
Teri Louise

Maryanne Marsh
daughter of Beth Anne Marsh
and John Michael Marsh
and
Maxwell James Mason,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert James Mason
request the honor of your presence
at their marriage.