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Opinions?! The Davis’ or The Davises for greenery wall

Kyla, on March 7, 2022 at 10:07 PM Posted in Style and Décor 0 13

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Opinions?! The Davis’ or The Davises for greenery wall 1

Sooo I’m having one of those grass walls at my wedding, and I want to put our new last name on the. Commonly people put thing like “The Smiths” or “The Johnsons”. My new last name will be Davis, and ik grammatically it should be Davis’, but I don’t think I can get an apostrophe on the wood cut out.
So what do you guys think? Should I put “the davises” or scrap that idea and put “Mr & Mrs Davis”?

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Latest activity by Heather, on March 8, 2022 at 9:42 PM

Savvy May 2022
Kyla · on March 7, 2022 at 10:09 PM
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Sorry for so many typos. I am at work and speed typing 😂 but you get what I mean, right🥴
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Jessica · on March 7, 2022 at 10:20 PM
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The correct would actually be Davises. Davis’ is possessive.
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Stacey · on March 7, 2022 at 10:25 PM
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Grammatically, it should be The Davises. Apostrophes make words possessive, not plural. I can sympathize - my new last name ends in S and the plural form just looks weird! If you want to avoid that, either Davis or Mr. & Mrs. Davis would work.
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Kyla · on March 7, 2022 at 10:25 PM
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Thank you!
Idk why it looks so strange to me that way… probably because I’ve been staring at it for so long 😂
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Kyla · on March 7, 2022 at 10:31 PM
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Thank you!
Yessss it looks sooo strange to me that way 😂😂
Maybe I’ll just avoid it
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Candace · on March 7, 2022 at 10:52 PM
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I hear you! My family was the Jenningses 🤷‍♀️😂 But I read that if a last name is already plural, like Miles or Rogers, then you don't put an -es. Sorry that doesn't help you just wanted to add that fun fact.
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Jasmine S. · on March 7, 2022 at 10:56 PM
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You could also do Mr. & Mrs. Davis to avoid the awkward pluralization altogether
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Kyla · on March 7, 2022 at 11:04 PM
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You get it the struggle 😂
Everywhere I looked was also conflicting. But I think I’m gonna skip it and go with Mr and Mrs.
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Kyla · on March 7, 2022 at 11:05 PM
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Thank you! I think I’ll take this route
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Kaitlyn · on March 8, 2022 at 12:28 AM
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I had this same problem with our guest book (it’s actually a wooden board with a tree with leaves people sign). My new last name will be Demnowicz and I was like ehhhhh I don’t want it to say “the demnowiczes” so I just left out “the” and had them put Demnowicz. Can you just do your last name with no “the”?
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Kaitlyn · on March 8, 2022 at 12:30 AM
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This is our guest book sign. I realized my explanation might be a little dumb lol
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devotedlydavis · on March 8, 2022 at 6:04 AM
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This will be my new last name too! I just went with “Davis” for our sign because the other options looked odd to me.
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Heather · on March 8, 2022 at 9:42 PM
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English teacher here- Grammatically is the Davises… Davis’ would suggest that multiple Davis own something.
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