Help me! Quick! Please?!

I never thought I'd turn to the SJ Nation for wedding planning advice, nor did I think I'd post it here on Journalism topics, but it's kind of a design question.

Anyway, this is quick. How do you break this:

Dr. and Mrs. Bob Smith request
the honour of your presence at the marriage
of their daughter . . .


OR


Dr. and Mrs. Bob Smith request the
honour of your presence at the marriage of
their daughter . . .

The question is, where do the words "the" and "of" go?

 

We're honoured you asked us....
"the" goes before honour...
Of is part of a prepositional phrase -- of their daughter... so, third line.

 

Nice. I got it right the first time.

Thanks slappy.

And yes, I caught the "honoured" Canuck poke.

 

You're a Canuckistani?
Who knew?

 

I agree with Slappy.

 

Dr. and Mrs. Bob Smith request
the honour of your presence
at the marriage of their daughter . . .

That's how I would print it.

(I've had lots of practice with this lately -- I've been helping out a relative who's getting married this summer.)

 

I'm not sure I would do anything until DyePack weighs in.

 

100% agree with Rosie...Break it down into the three individual parts...

THEY request
YOUR presence
DAUGHTER's wedding....

 

FIXED.

 

exclusivelyweddings.com has templates you can use when ordering invitations. Pretty good stuff to pick any way you want to deliver the message saying, "You're invited to our big party ..."

 

Also, "open bar" is two words.

And yes, I'll be there.

 

So what happens if the parents are divorced and remarried multiple times?

Like mine would read:

Dr. SC dad and Dr. SC dad's wife, SC mom and SC stepdad and SC stepmom and SC stepmom's partner request the honor of your presence at the wedding of their daughter . . .

Mine is so gonna read:

SC is getting hitched . . .