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Wording for an outdoor wedding at future in-laws home

tiffany05
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Wording for an outdoor wedding at future in-laws home

I'm making the invitations for our wedding myself but have a few questions regarding the wording.
We are having the wedding in the back yard of his parents home. Do I include their name above the address for the wedding location to let people know that it's not a traditional church wedding or just put the address there? And if we do put their name on the invitation do my parent's names need to be put above in the wording? I hadn't planned on listing any of our parent's names but think it may look a bit sloppy if I just put an address for the location on the invitation without letting people know it's at his parent's home. And also I worry how my family would feel seeing his parent's names listed without theirs on the invitation too? Please give me some ideas I'm really getting frustrated about this!

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Re: [tiffany05] Wording for an outdoor wedding at future in-laws home [In reply to]

Dear Frustrated,

If your parents are paying for the wedding and the wedding is just being held at your groom's home (they will still have a number of expenses) both parents names should be on the invitation. If they are not paying but just his parents are hosting your wedding at their home, his parent's name should be listed if they are incurring any cost.

If you are just wanting to state that the wedding is being held at your groom's father's home and not use a name, it could look like this:

You

and

Your Groom

invite you to share their joy

at their wedding

date

time

at the groom's father's home

address

ect.

Rebecca Black, Etiquette Consultant
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