Invitations and Stationery

Must Invites Include Groom’s Parents’ Names?

Should we include my fiancé’s parents’ names on the invitation even though they aren’t paying for the wedding?


This is your call. If your parents are solely paying for the big day, then only their names need to appear on the invitation. (For example, “Terry and Carrie Farkas request the honor of your presence at the marriage of…”). If you want to include both sets of parents’ names on the invite, but don’t want to imply that both sets are paying, simply add your fiancé’s parents’ names after his (“...at the marriage of Cynthia Farkas and Scott Goethals, son of Robert and Ann Goethals…”).

However, if you and your fiancé feel that both sets of parents deserve top billing, then by all means do it. Just make sure that both sets are okay with it before sending the wording off to the printer. Also, you might consider less-traditional wording so the invite doesn’t necessarily imply that both sets of parents are paying. For example, “Please join Terry and Carrie Farkas and Robert and Ann Goethals in celebrating the marriage of Cynthia Farkas and Scott Goethals.”