invitation etiquette

United States
October 10, 2008 6:55pm CST
so may parent and i are constantly fighing about this.my fiance and i are getting married march 28 of next year, and on my invitations, i did not mention my parents names. the reason that i didnt mention them is because in the invitrations, it says that him and i are hosting the event, menaing we are paying fopr it woith little or no help, which is true. now, my family is hispanic, so i made english invitations for my friends and co workers, and spanish for my family. i made the english invited first, and when my mom saw them she bluntly told me that she was not going to give the spanish ones to her friends if they did not say her and my fathers name, when i brought it up to her that they were not paying for the wedding, and barely helping, she said she didnt care if she was helping or not and that the would attend if her name was not on the invites. so all of the spanish invitations have my parents names as the hosts of teh wedding, which really REALLY annoyed me. so english sont have my parents names and spanish do. is it wrong of me to not put my parents names when theyre clearly not halping with anything, or should their name have gone on there anyway? i really do find it annoying that i felt forced to do that on my own weding invitations for my own wedding, but i know my mother would have made a big fuss over it. co what do you all think?
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@jaygee96 (316)
• Philippines
11 Oct 08
I think you should really have to include your parents in the invitation to show some respect to them even if they're not paying for it. Besides, why expect your parents to shoulder the expense, its your wedding so you should really be the one to shoulder the expenses.
@lilaclady (28207)
• Australia
11 Oct 08
Well I think you are just being honest, you are hosting it so that is exactly what you are saying, seems the proper thing to do I think, etiquette for everything has changed these days, there are no rules anymore, you do it the way you want, personally i would have left the invitations as you originally wanted and if they didn't want to give them out to their friends then so be it...parents should not put guilt trips on their children....