Catholic Wedding Invite

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Just wanted to run my wording through the forum. Do you think this looks alright for our nuptial mass?

Mr. and Mrs. X
Request the honour of your presence
At the Nuptial Mass
Of their daughter
X
And
X
Son of Mr. and Mrs. X
Uniting them in the
Sacrament of Holy Matrimony

Saturday, the eleventh of July
Two thousand fifteen
At two o’clock

St. Patrick’s Catholic Church
Some town, California

Merriment to follow
LoveWine Vineyards
 
Mr. and Mrs. X
Request the honour of your presence
At the Nuptial Mass
Uniting their daughter
X
And
X
Son of Mr. and Mrs. X
in the
Sacrament of Holy Matrimony
 
We used a slightly different wording that seems less cumbersome to me:

Mr. and Mrs. X
request the honour of your presence
at the Nuptial Mass uniting their daughter
X
and
Mr. X
son of Mr. and Mrs. X
in the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony

Saturday, the eleventh of July
at two o’clock

St. Patrick’s Catholic Church
Some town, California

We left off the year because it’s understood you’re talking about the next July 11th and not some July 11th two or more years in the future. 🙂 Some people would state “at two o’clock in the afternoon,” but who gets married at two o’clock in the morning? 😃

Reception information appeared on a separate card.
 
The names of the groom’s parents are included? I haven’t seen that before
 
Do not say “At the Nuptial Mass Of their daughter.” The Mass is about Christ, not the daughter.
 
fencersmother said:
The names of the groom’s parents are included? I haven’t seen that before
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Adding the groom’s parents’ names to the invite has basically become the norm today because rarely do the bride’s parents pay for everything.

The groom and/or the groom’s family often pay for something, even if it’s just the rings which often costs thousands (if not tens of thousands) of dollars.
 
stclaresgirl said:
Just wanted to run my wording through the forum. Do you think this looks alright for our nuptial mass?

Mr. and Mrs. X
Request the honour of your presence
At the Nuptial Mass
Of their daughter
X
And
X
Son of Mr. and Mrs. X
Uniting them in the
Sacrament of Holy Matrimony

Saturday, the eleventh of July
Two thousand fifteen
At two o’clock

St. Patrick’s Catholic Church
Some town, California

Merriment to follow
LoveWine Vineyards
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Are the groom’s parents Catholic? and the groom too?

I would say it differently nowadays, I would say this way: Mr and Mrs X (daughter’s parents) and Mr and Mrs Y (groom’s parents) request your presence at which (name of daughter) will be united with (name of groom) in the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony…
 
Why do people put the year on a wedding invitation?

Because people save those wedding invitations as keepsakes!

So unless you want a lot of people to have to take out their pencils and write “2015” on your invitation, it’s probably better to put it down yourself.

🙂
 
Yep, groom is Catholic (raised Byzantine, family now practices Angligan Ordinariate). We wanted to honor them in the invitation. The overall structure of the invitation (including the “two o’clock in the afternoon” and the year were borrowed from Crane wedding etiquette.

I agree about the “Nuptial Mass of…” that was actually one of the reasons I posted here. I thought it did sound strange. Thanks for the affirmation that it works better to say “Nuptial Mass uniting…” Obviously, the Mass is about Christ.

Thanks everyone!!
 
Oh, I didn’t realize the names of the parents were who paid.When my sons were married, our names weren’t on the invites. I never even thought about the groom’s parents for my daughter’s upcoming wedding.

Good thing I’m not in charge.
 
We never gave a thought to who was paying for what when we had our invitations printed. It simply made sense to name his parents and mine. I paid for my own wedding.
 
I had a question: what exactly does “merriment to follow” mean? Are you inviting the guests to a vineyard for a few drinks afterward, or are you feeding them a dinner?

I would want to know which it was if i got the invitation!
 
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Williams
Request the honor of your presence
at the Nuptial Mass uniting their daughter

Sophia Anne
to
Alexander Michael Miller

In the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony

Saturday, the eighth of July
two thousand and fifteen
at three in the afternoon

St. Anthony’s Catholic Church
1280 San Antonio Avenue,
Carson City Nevada
 
of their beloved daughter

Saturday, the eleventh day of July,
in the year of our Lord, two thousand fifteen,
at three o’clock in the afternoon.
 
fencersmother said:
The names of the groom’s parents are included? I haven’t seen that before
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It’s a valid choice either way, regardless of who pays for what. We paid for our entire wedding ourselves, but included our parents anyway.
Mintaka said:
Why do people put the year on a wedding invitation?

Because people save those wedding invitations as keepsakes!

So unless you want a lot of people to have to take out their pencils and write “2015” on your invitation, it’s probably better to put it down yourself.

🙂
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Indeed 🙂 Again, a valid choice either way. We had both invitations and announcements because we couldn’t invite everyone we wanted to (space constraints and logistical issues). The announcements included the year, the invitations did not. We offered a copy of the announcement as a keepsake to everyone who was invited.
 
I don’t think it was ANYTHING to do with paying for this that or the other.
Why shouldn’t the groom’s parents be proud and delighted for their son to marry a nice girl?
I’ve seldom seen an invitation that didn’t mention both parents unless the couple were well up in age.
 
It would look more formal if “The Year of Our Lord” was edited on to the invitation.
 
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