Help me! Quick! Please?!

[SoSueMe]

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?

 

[slappy4428]

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

 

[SoSueMe]

Nice. I got it right the first time.

Thanks slappy.

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

 

[slappy4428]

You're a Canuckistani?
Who knew?

 

[imjustagirl2]

I agree with Slappy.

 

[Rosie]

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.)

 

[PeteyPirate]

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

 

[SuperflySnuka]

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

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

 

[fishwrapper]

Dr. and Mrs. Bob Smith request
the honour of your presence
at the marriage of their daughter . . .
and to learn the art of clubbing baby seals.

FIXED.

 

[cougargirl]

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 ..."

 

[Jones]

Also, "open bar" is two words.

And yes, I'll be there.

 

[sportschick]

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 . . .

 

[Songbird]

Mine is so gonna read:

SC and her life partner are headed to Vermont for a civil union. Come 'n' join 'em!

Fixed

 

[SoSueMe]

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 . . .

The better half has a book that lists samples of invites. One of them is for weddings of kids of divorced couples and re-married couples.

There are also examples of invites for kids whose parents are dead.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

It's my life goal to have my wedding announcement go something like this ...

"Mom, it's me. She and I are in Vegas and we just got married at the same drive-in wedding chapel Michael Jordan used."

 

[occasionally]

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?

I'd use neither version ...
I'd start the second line with "request" and the third line with "at."

 

[Cadet]

It's my life goal to have my wedding announcement go something like this ...

"Mom, it's me. She and I are in Vegas and we just got married at the same drive-in wedding chapel Michael Jordan used."

Amen. And why is this on JTO? Haven't we established a wedding subboard on AG yet?

 

[SoSueMe]

I put it here 'cause it was kind of a "design" question (i.e. where to break things up).

We can nuke this thread now. The invites are done, and will be in the mail by Friday.

 

[Rosie]

So, don't leave us in suspense.

How did you break it up?

And I better get an invite.

 

[SoSueMe]

Oh, I went with the first option, which I thought was correct in the first place.

I would have used (and tried to, actually) occasionally's suggestion, but the width wasn't right.

I'm happy with them. It's like we said, who the hell keeps the invites anyway? Half goes in the recycle bin, half is sent back to us!

And on a personal note: Weddings are a racket. Go away to get married!