Invitations:

[sstark1218]

Okay, here goes.. as a few of you already know, both of my parents are deceased. I decided to ask my uncle (who raised me after my parents) and my brother to walk me down the aisle. However, the aunt and uncle have made it very clear that they will not help financially because they think we should do it. However, my fiances parents are going in about half with us. So my question is.. how should I word the invitations? I don't think I should have my aunt and uncle announcing the wedding if they're not financially helping, and I don't want to offend his parents. I honestly don't even feel right including both sets of parents on there. Should I just have us announcing it or go with his parents, or both? Any suggestions would be appreciated!! Thanks!

[sweet-announcements]

hmmm.... well ultimately it is your wedding, but I understand not wanting to offend his parents, have you talked to them about this, talk to them and take it from there.

If you don't really want to include anyone announce it yourselves and write something special/your gratitude in your programs to the effect they helped out.

Goodluck.

[iluvweddings]

You can still include both sets of parents even though they are not contributing financially. It sounds to me like you are upset that they are not helpin in that way.
You can still honor them and let them know that you appreciate the fact that they took the place of your parents by using their names on the invite.

GOOD LUCK!

[As You Wish]

Adding both sets of parent's names honors everyone. They may not be contributing financially to the wedding, but they raised you to the point you could be married. You might try something like this:

Mr. and Mrs. Aunt and uncle's last name
and
Mr. and Mrs. Grooms last name

Request the honor of your presence at the marriage of
Your name
to
Grooms name

If you decide not to include your Aunt and Uncle on the invitation try something like this:

Mr. and Mrs. Grooms last name
Request the honor of your presence at the marriage of
Your name
to their son
Grooms name.

[sstark1218]

Thanks for the advice. I still haven't decided but we are leaning towards just having his parents announcing it. Thanks for your input!

[InvitingInWriting]

There are many suggested wording styles for "special situations" in the front of invitation albums that you will look through when selecting your invitations/announcments/program for your wedding.

Some that you could consider would be:
If your brother is older, you could mention him:
Mr. (and Mrs. if he is married) Brother's Name
request the honour of your presence at the marriage of his sister
Your Name
etc.

You could just make it from yourself and your groom:
The honour of your presence is reequested
at the marriage of
Miss Your Name
to
Mr. His name
etc.

Groom's Parents:
Mr. and Mrs. His parent's names
request the honour of your presence at the marriage of
Miss Your name
to their son
Mr. His name
etc.

"Miss" is used when the givers of the wedding are not relatives of the bride.

These are just some samples taken from the Nu-Art Simple But Elegant album. As I mentioned, you will find many in the front of the albums that you view. There are also a lot of "Contemporary Wordings" that don't mention anyone except the bride and groom. It's really just up to you.

If you would like some more samples I'd be happy to give you some more examples.

[CarlosHoney]

I've heard that the names just mean who is hosting... you do seem a little upset that they don't want to help with the money, but I would be too.

"A couple might be paying for the entire wedding themselves but still choose to have their invitation issued by their parents as a way of honoring them. Since parents often do pay for the wedding, especially if the couple is under 30, the people whose names are on the invitations are usually the ones who paid for it."

That's from *******.com, they answer a lot of questions about stuff like this, and they have an article on several ways to word the invitations:
http://www.*******.com/ch_article.html?Object=AI980914211832

Good luck!