Wedding Invitation Wording Bride or Grooms Parents are Divorced
Divorce in a family can be a complicating factor when you’re trying to word your wedding invitations. Most of your friends and family know the situation… you just want to include every one of your parents on the wedding invitations… wording them correctly.
If the bride’s parents are divorced, the invitations may be issued by her mother, with her present husband as host, if she has remarried. Except in most unusual cases, the absent parent is invited to the wedding, and members of the family should behave without bitterness toward each other.
If the wedding is to be a small home affair, with only members of the immediate families present, the matter is a simple one except in problems of close relatives by blood or marriage who have been cut off from the family by distance, divorce, or estrangement.
It is wise to invite all such family members as is possible. To exclude them from such an important occasion will often lead to widening the breach and to make for feelings of guilt and uneasiness among those present. Whether or not they are included, the decision should be the joint responsibility of all the family members planning the wedding.
The mature bride whose parents are divorced may send her own invitations and announcements and walk down the aisle either alone, or on the arm of a favorite uncle or other older male relative.
When a bride is the daughter of her mother’s first husband, the wording of the invitations may be suitably changed to
request the honour of your presence
at the marriage of their daughter
Pricilla Marie Brown
to
Captain Michael Anthony Smith
United States Marines
Saturday, the Thirty Second of September
Two Thousand and Seven
at one o’clock
Valley Country Club
Any Town, Any State
^^^^^^^^^^^
Mrs. Mary Johnson
requests the honour of your presence
at the marriage of her daughter
Linda Robertson
to
Jonathan Elliot Smith
on
Saturday the Thirty Second of September
Two Thousand and Seven
at one o’clock
Valley Country Club
Any Town, Any State
*************
Mr. James William Johnson
requests the honour of your presence
at the marriage of his daughter
Linda Robertson
to
Jonathan Elliot Smith
on
Saturday the Thirty Second of September
Two Thousand and Seven
at one o’clock
Valley Country Club
Any Town, Any State
Traditional: Divorced unmarried parents co host
Mrs. Linda Johnson
and
Mr. David Ryan Johnson
requests the honour of your presence
at the marriage of his daughter
Linda Sharon
to
Jonathan Elliot Smith
on
Saturday the Thirty Second of September
Two Thousand and Seven
at one o’clock
Valley Country Club
Any Town, Any State
