Wedding Invitations

These are some of the most difficult wedding invitations for which to
create the proper wording without hurting someone’s feelings, so you
may have to opt for a less formal way of presenting the information.
There are some rather simple and straightforward rules to handle these
situations and I will address them here, but if emotions take over, you
may find these rules to be inadequate.

Getting it right is not worth
creating unnecessary tensions. As I mentioned earlier, etiquette is
intended as a guide to good taste, to enforce good relationships and to
make everyone comfortable by knowing what is expected. That said, you
may find yourself straying a bit from the accepted rules when formulating the wording in your wedding invitations.

The proper way to word a wedding invitation in which the bride’s parents
are divorced is to list their names at the top of the invitation. Her
mother’s name is on the first line and her father’s name is on the line
beneath it. The lines are not separated by “and.”

If the bride’s mother has not remarried, she uses “Mrs.” followed
by her first name, maiden name and married name. If she has remarried,
then she uses “Mrs.” followed by her new husband’s name.