Hola all,
I have a while until I send invitations, but as I'm looking at the "typical wording" a nagging thing popped into my head. I've given some context below, and would welcome advice/ particularly first hand experience.
Background: My dad has volunteered to contribute to the wedding, so I know there is traditional wording for that. I've seen "Mr. & Mrs. BRIDE's PARENTS request the pleasure of your presence at the marriage of their daughter MY NAME to MY FAVORITE PERSON EVER...yadda yadda."
So my mom has passed away almost a decade ago, and my dad has married twice since then. Weird stuff, that's another whole thing. His current wife is nice, about a year into their marriage at this point. At my age, she's really my dad's wife - not my step-mom (if that makes sense.) I make efforts to include her and we get along okay.
The issue: SO - the question is how to approach my dad with an idea for the invitations. I don't want the invitation to look like I'm her daughter, because I'm not. But I don't necessarily want to bum anyone out reminding them of my mom on the invite, or cut his wife out completely and put "Mr. Dad invites you to my wedding..."
He's very sensitive to any perceived slights to her, so I'm trying to figure out a solution that's acceptable to me and then kind of approach him with that to work from there.
Thoughts/ first-hand experiences?
