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I can't decide whether or not to put our middle names on the invites, I don't know what looks better.
What are others of you doing?
I've been trying to decide that myself, and I think I will mostly because my first name is so short and so is my last name, but my middle name is pretty long.
Example:
Lala Elizabeth Falala
Well, what do you think:
with middle names (not real names, but) exactly these amount of letters:
Jena Carol Smith
Michael Philip Bakers
without:
Jena Smith
Michael Bakers
I'm doing middle names but only because I think it looks more formal. We are having a formal catholic church wedding so I think middle names suit our wedding. I suppose it depends on the "feel" you are going for.
We did full names, partly for formality, partly bc at least 50% of the guests know me by a nickname but the 50% that don't call me that name are important (my family), and partly bc DH has a pretty awesome full name (sounds like it should end with "the third" it's so fancy and dignified) and he wanted to use it! It does look more formal though so if you are aiming for informal I would probably not use middle names.
We used our middle names & our wedding is somewhat informal. We tempered the "formality" with the use of color for our names & the rest in black.
For your names, I like the use of the middle name...seems more "official". Both look nice tho'.
We did middle names, it does add to the formality but mostly we did it cos they did it on the sample invite and the names are printed in red as an accent so we thought we'd use middle names.
i think i'm putting our middle names. i just typed a sample "invite" on a regular sheet of paper and it looks better.
thanks! :)
We will be putting our middle names on our invitations because our wedding has a more formal feel to it. Even if it didn't though, we probably would because I think it just looks nicer.
We also used middle names because our invitations and wedding are more formal.
We are going to use middle names, even though my names are 9, 7, 6 letters long respectively. And Mr. Roux are 3, 7, 8. So when I get married my super long name will be even longer! but I like the formality of the middle names.
we used middle names... even though i hate mine. it just looked better for our layout.
We're using our middle names because I love the way they look, they both start with the same letter.
I haven't totally decided yet, but we probably will.
I especially would if my real name was "Lala Elizabeth Falala". :)
for sure we will use our middle names, but i always use my first and middle names together anyway. i just like the sound of the three names (first, middle, last) all together. i think it looks nicer.
Think about your vows...I'm nearly 100% certain we're going to be using middle names because we'll be using FirstnameMiddlename when we exchange vows, so it only seems logical.
We are having a more informal ceremony buy I still used our middle names because it looked better and in some way, more official to me.
We had our middle names on the invites. My husband has a slew of middle names so he just used one of them for the invites.
We are putting our full names, I just like the formality of it.
I am putting middle names on our invites because FI and I both really like our middle names so this is a rare chance to actually use them!
I am also putting my middle name on the invitations because my MIL told me a month ago that I shouldn't because people would think there was a typo. Don't get me wrong, I like my MIL, but that comment was not needed and I am proud of my middle name so it will be on my wedding invitation! Oh and the name that everyone will supposedly think has a typo is Liisa which is a family name and a Finnish spelling. I hope people will mention the "typo" to me so I can tell them that Liisa is the correct spelling :)
I put our middle names, but not our last! Our last names are with our parents names...does that make sense? Anyway, yes, I put our middle names!
We had ours because it sounds better with the traditional brides parents invite you to the wedding of their daughter... wording.
we used our middle names, but only because i love the way my first and middle names sound together(a little self centered, i know), but i didn't include my last name, since it is the same as my parents who are hosting the wedding, ie.
Steve & Leah Harvey invite you to celebrate the marriage of their daughter
Brittany Michelle
to
Hisfirst Middle Lastname
i really just love my name... lol
we had ours because my middle name is my mom's maiden name, and i wanted to represent ;)
We did the same thing that @brittanyharvey did.
Myfirst Middle
to
Hisfirst Middle Lastname
I love the way it looks! :]
yep, but we are not doing last names.. ( we are including our parents on invites which will have both our last names) so it'll be:
My FirstName My MiddleName
to
His FirstName His MiddleName
...blah blah blah
Traditionally, if your parents names are on the invite (they are hosting) then you put Bride first Name Bride Middle. Then Groom First Name Groom Middle Groom Last.
So
Jane Jenna
John Jack Smith
Basically it's because your last name (theoretically) is that same as your parents so you don't need to put your last name.
Our wedding isn't super formal but we went ahead and put our full names on the invite. We didn't go with the typical invite with the bride's parents names listed and later on the groom's parents name----we did something else that we both loved and didn't feel so formal to us.
We did middle names.. mostly because I love my FIs middle name, its totally orginal!
I don't have a middle name, but we did include FI's middle name. I have two last names, so it balanced out well. We each have three names on our invitations. Him: First Middle Last. Me: First Last - Last.
We will be including middle names—for the tradition, formality, elegance, etc.
WE USED OUR MIDDLE NAMES, ONLY BECAUSE I THINK IT MAKES THE INVITATION LOOK LESS EMPTY.
We did full names because we have shorter names and for the formality other Bees referenced.
We both go by nicknames (diminutives) of our first names, and my middle name is just a letter and I don't like my real first name much, so we're just doing our nickname and last name.
I like it with the middle names! We did both my middle name and his since both our parents last names were on the invitation.
We will be using middle names. Our wedding is informal (and the invitations will be too), but I love our middle names and we rarely get to use them.
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