Wedding Invitations

Wedding Invitation Wording Deceased Father Mother Remarried

The formal wording for the wedding invitations can be a little confusing sometimes but fortunately you may find a wide variety of tips on the internet or you can simply ask a connoisseur about what wording style should you use in your situation.

One situation is when one or both parents of the bride or the groom are deceased; their names are mentioned in a newspaper announcement style. It is common that the name of the surviving parent to be mentioned alone on the invitation and if the mother is a widow and not remarried to continue using her late husband’s name; if she is remarried the name of the stepparent can be mentioned or not, depending on the personal preferences of either the bride or the groom.

One wording example to fit with this situation is: “Rudy Feathers, daughter of Sara Brandon Feathers and the late Marc Feathers, and Daniel Sinclair, invite you to join them in celebrating their marriage on Sunday, the seventeenth of March, two thousand and ten, at six o’clock in the evening, St. Andrew’s Church, Baton   Rouge, Louisiana”.

If you don’t want to mention the name of the dead father on the wedding invitation an option would be to arrange a small table during the reception and decorate it with a white rose, a family picture with him or one with him alone and a note from you to him.

To make a tribute of honoring his existence and the importance he had and continues to have in your life, you could also mention his name during the wedding ceremony, in a solemn moment and in a prayer.

The wedding day is a happy day for you and your partner but I see nothing wrong of mentioning the name of a dead father in the wedding invitation. Usually the parents of the bride act as the wedding hosts but it is recommended not to mention the name of her deceased father because, obviously, being dead he can not act as well as a wedding host.

One wording example can be this one: “Mrs. Sara Brandon Feathers, requests the honor of your presence at the marriage of her daughter, Rudy Feathers to Daniel Sinclair, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Sinclair, on Sunday, the seventeenth of March, two thousand and ten, at six o’clock in the evening, St. Andrew’s Church, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Continue the celebration at the reception following the ceremony”.

If the groom has a dead father, the wording would be something like this: “Mr. and Mrs. Marc Feathers, request the pleasure of your company, at the marriage of their daughter, Rudy Feathers, to Daniel Sinclair, son of the late Bob Sinclair, on Sunday, the seventeenth of March, two thousand and ten, at six o’clock in the evening, St. Andrew’s Church, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Continue the celebration at the reception following the ceremony”.

If the deceased father, while living, worked in the military services like the United States Marine Corps, United States Army, the United States Navy or the United States Air Force, and had a military title of an officer, a noncommissioned or junior officer, or a retired officer, you can add his titles, branch of service and rank next to his name on the wedding invitation, but this is not imperative.

Usually mentioning the name of the dead father is regarded as a sign of respect towards him and even if death took him too soon you would still like to share this happy day with him and hope he gets the message wherever he might be at that moment.