How can I list all our parents in the engagement and wedding announcements, etc.? next to my fiance is easy - a couple of parents. (He 30)
I was adopted at age 4 years by John & Barb. When I was 15 years, they divorced and remarried two. Around this same time, I was reintroduced to my birth mother, Laura.
I am now 24.
My adoptive mother, Barb now lives states away with her second husband and I see a few times a year and speak with it MAYBE once a month. We are cordial to each other, but we do not have a big mother / daughter relationship. It is very, very happy with our marriage and she is my mother ... so I do not want to cause.
My adoptive father, John, lives only 30 minutes from me, and although we were very close ... there were 2 1 / 2 years, if we did not talk to each other. My relationship with him and his second wife is very, very tense. Six months ago, my fiance drove me to try to revive him. Well, we are talking now - it is rocky. Again it is my father ... so I want him involved.
My birth mother, Laura, lives in the same city as I do. We talk and e-mail several times a week, lunch together and even attend the same church. We became very close and have a very, very good relations. We have a kind of bond between mother / daughter, but there are also plenty of friendship, support and acceptance. Over the past 8 years, I have just met all the members of my biological family and celebrate birthdays and holidays with them. Ten years ago, I would not have dreamed it would be at my wedding - and now I am delighted she will be here in any way that I do or do not want it to be.
As you can see, I have three groups of parents who are all invited to our small (45-60) of marriage. I do not want to offend anyone, but can not understand how (if) I do not honor their ads on the seats invitations church, etc.
My fiance and I are paying for our wedding, we both have a solid career and the chance that we can pay for a small wedding. His parents want to help too. Even if my parents could not contribute to our expenses, they have not offered.
I give you this "financial" information in the case that made the difference in the formulation announcement.
Bob Jones, the son of Larry & Mary Jones, and Betty Allen, daughter of John & Hannah Allen, Laura Chase & Walter, and Barbara Morgan, are pleased to announce their engagement and marriage in the meantime ....
An alternative is to say, Bob Jones & Betty Allen are pleased to announce their engagement and marriage in the meantime .... And then at the end of his sentence, say
Bob is the son of Larry & Mary Jones. Betty is the daughter of John Allen & Hannah, Laura & Walter Chase, and Barbara Morgan.
Since you really are hosting the wedding (your donation is a gift from parents), you do not mention Ned parents. However, if you want to talk, you can say something like:
Bride
and
Bellboy
Together with their parents ...
Parents are not usually called on print ads, except in the newspaper.
I have a mother, father, stepmother and my husband has a father, mother, stepfather and stepmother ...
We have:
The parents of Andrea Martin and want ... etc., etc., etc.
It is John and Barb XXX XXXX does not matter if they are remarried or not you just list their names correctly. If you want to include the biological mother of everything:
John XXX XXX XXX Laura and Barb would like to announce ...... I've never seen the parents were not were included on calls (especially with all the divorces of couples these days) unless there is not a parent who has raised this person and they are there laplace of the real mother.
i woul.
Posted on February 3, 2010.