The Most Popular Ways to Word Your Wedding Invitations

Here are our most popular options for wording your wedding invitations:

Option 1: Parents of the Bride Inviting (Traditional)

This is the most traditional wording of all, but not surprisingly, no longer quite as popular as it once was. There are many other ways to word a wedding invitation that lets the bride’s parents invite, but this is the most popular of all:

Andrew and Pamela Carlson
request the honor of your presence
at the marriage of their daughter
Anna Beth
to
George Colton Matthews
Saturday, the fifteenth of September
two thousand and twenty-six
four o'clock in the afternoon
The Warehouse
1030 North Delaware Avenue
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Option 2: Both Sets of Parents Inviting

If your parents are helping pay for your wedding, it’s nice to include them on you invitation. You have lots of options for including both parents in your wording, but this is the most simplistic:

Andrew and Pamela Carlson
and Glen and Barbara Matthews
invite you to share in the joy
of the marriage
uniting their children
Anna Beth
&
George Colton
This celebration of love will be
on Saturday, the fifteenth of September
two thousand and twenty-six
four o'clock in the afternoon
The Warehouse
1030 North Delaware Avenue
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Option 3: Couple Inviting with Mention of Parents

If you want to honor your folks by giving them a mention on your invitation, there are lots of ways to word it just right. This is a very simple and sweet way to do it:

Together with their parents
Anna Beth Carlson
and
George Colton Matthews
invite you to share with them
a celebration of love
The ceremony will be
at four o'clock in the afternoon
on Saturday, the fifteenth of September
two thousand and twenty-six
The Warehouse
1030 North Delaware Avenue
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Option 4: Couple Inviting (Simple)

More often, couples are hosting (paying for) their own wedding, making wedding invitation wording that only includes the couple our most popular wording choice. And this is the wording that’s chosen over all others:

Anna Beth Carlson
and
George Colton Matthews
invite you to the celebration
of their marriage
on Saturday, the fifteenth of September
two thousand and twenty-six
at four o'clock in the afternoon
The Warehouse
1030 North Delaware Avenue
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

If none of these basic wording examples are quite right for you, we have a plethora of wording examples ready to inspire you! And remember, if you have questions as your personalize your wedding invitation suite, we’re here to help.