Wedding Invitations Wordings

Is there a proper wedding invitation wording? Basically for some experts in invitation-making, they follow some sort of wedding invitation etiquette and proper wordings. They consider some factors like if the wedding is a non-traditional way or the traditional one. A traditional wedding invitation is more formal than the non-traditional wedding invitations and this is the part where people struggle the most.

In our case, we are the hosts of our wedding and in some ways a little confusion on whose name would come first, is it the grooms name or the bride’s name? In proper wedding etiquette as far as I have researched, it’s always the brides name comes first but that I think only applies in foreign countries where they have different culture in terms of weddings. In most cases to them, the bride or the brides parents usually pays for the wedding, thus, in their wedding invitations the name of the bride comes first or the name of the parents, depending on who are hosting the wedding.

To get some ideas on how to write our wedding invitation wording, I’ve tried to compare some old wedding invitations that we have received and we come up our wedding invitation wording after a few try of making one. This is our wedding invitation wordings;

We,
Grooms Name
and
Brides Name
along with our parents,
Mr. Rogelio M. Macuha & Mrs. Angelita A. Macuha
and
Mr. Ernesto E. Mojana & Mrs. Nonita G. Mojana
invite you to share with us the beginning of our new life
as we bind ourselves together in Marriage
on Friday, the eighth day of August, Two thousand eight
at nine o’clock in the morning,
to be solemnized at Iglesia Ni Cristo, House of Worship
Locale of Matina, Davao City.

A social gathering of family, relatives and friends will follow at
Sunny Point Function Plaza, Clarissa Hall,
Maa Road, Davao City

The grooms name comes first since he’s the one paying for the wedding and of course he’ll be the head of the family so it’s proper enough that the groom should take the leadership. As for me, it depends on the couple how they would agree to who comes first and who comes last in their wedding invitations wording. For me, I find it not proper to have the brides name first in the list than the grooms’ name. That is just my opinion.