How you word your invitation communicates some very important information to your guests who is paying for the wedding (those people’s name or names usually comes first) and the marital status of the bride’s and the groom’s parents.

So you don’t spend a lot of time fretting over how to word your invitations, here are phrasing options for some of the most common scenarios you’ll find at today’s weddings:

• Bride and groom are paying for their wedding

Betty Ann Bride
and
Gary John Groom
request the honour of your presence
at their wedding
Saturday, the twenty-third of September
two thousand six
at ten o’clock in the morning
St. John’s Church
Indianapolis, Indiana

• Bride and groom, and both of their parents, are paying for the wedding

Betty Ann Bride
and
Gary John Groom
together with their parents
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Bride
and
Mr. and Mrs. George Groom
request the honour of your presence
at their wedding
Saturday, the twenty-third of September
two thousand six
at ten o’clock in the morning
St. John’s Church
Indianapolis, Indiana

• Bride’s parents arepaying for the wedding

Mr. and Mrs. Bob Bride
request the honour of your presence
at the marriage of their daughter
Betty Ann
to
Gary John Groom
son of Mr. And Mrs. George Groom*
Saturday, the twenty-third of September
two thousand six
at ten o’clock in the morning
St. John’s Church
Indianapolis, Indiana

• Groom’s parents are paying for the wedding

Mr. and Mrs. George Groom
request the honour of your presence
at the marriage of
Betty Ann Bride
daughter of Mr. And Mrs. Bob Bride*
to their son
Gary John
Saturday, the twenty-third of September
two thousand six
at ten o’clock in the morning
St. John’s Church
Indianapolis, Indiana