Comments on: Too, too, too many moms? Or mom-o-rama?

By: warmarkwoman

warmarkwoman — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:01:28 +0000

We went with: me, daughter of her, and him, son of her and him, invite you to blah blah blah. No one dropped dead from bad etiquette, so I guess it was okay. (We did it that way mostly because we were paying for the whole thing.)

By: Never teh Bride

Never teh Bride — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:50:13 +0000

Nice works, guys! “Together with their parents” works in a variety of circumstances, from the ‘too many parents’ situation to the ‘we’re hosting it’ situation to the ‘we’re not terribly close to our parents but we want to mention them anyway’ situation.

By: Twistie

Twistie — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:46:45 +0000

We went with ‘together with their parents’ despite the fact we each had one living parent, no steps, etc. It just seemed silly to put my father or his mother as the hosts when we were both past thirty, were paying for the wedding ourselves, and it was his second marriage. To have left any mention of them out would have looked a little sad to me, but to have listed the names would have looked a little wrong to me, too, under the circumstances. YMMV, but it worked for everyone involved.

By: Chloe

Chloe — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:36:27 +0000

My fiance & I decided to go with “together with their parents” as the wording on our invitations. My side of the family is just one mom, one dad. My fiance however… has one mom, one adopted step-dad, his late biological father’s common-law wife and her new husband! “Together with their parents” seemed like the best way to deal with it – without excluding anyone