How to Honor Parents in Wedding Invitations

Honoring your parents on your wedding invitation is as easy as making a few adjustments in your wording and is well worth the effort when you know how proud you make your parents.

Instructions

1. Determine who is funding the wedding since they are the hosts of the wedding and will be named first on the wedding invitation. When the bride and groom are hosting their own wedding, honoring the parents is done by naming them as the parents.

2. Include parents who are not helping to pay for the wedding below their child's name. For example, state "Ann Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Smith," if the bride's parents are not helping to host.

3. Repeat step 2 for the groom's parents if they are not helping to pay for the wedding.

4. Clarify with all parents how they would like to be titled on the wedding invitation. This is extremely important when parents are divorced and/or remarried. For some families it may be reasonable to exclude a step-parent in the wording and for other families it would be considered rude.

5. Show all parents a sample wedding invitation before you have them printed.

Tips & Warnings

• Most companies that print wedding invitations will help with the wording, but you need to know ahead of time if you want to honor your parents in this way

• Divorced parents who have the same last name should be listed separately, such as "Mr. Joe Smith and Ms. Linda Smith."