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[quote=Anonymous]You're not hosting the wedding.  Your name does not belong on the invitation in any way, shape, or form.

Question: Are your future DIL's parents paying to host YOUR friends at the wedding in Mexico?  (You say your DH is humiliated b/c your friends will see that your names are not on the invitation.) It seems to me that the only way your friends would see the invitation is if your son, future DIL, and future DIL's family are PAYING to include YOUR friends on the guest list, which is extraordinarily generous.  And you repay that extraordinary generosity with petulant ingratitude?  What kind of monster are you?

If I'm wrong and your friends are not invited (as is typical with destination weddings) then you have a simple way to avoid the "humiliation" ...don't show the invitation to anyone, and don't mention it.  If somehow, someone in your circle of friends sees it or receives an invitation and rudely comments on your name bit being included, you simply say the truth, "Phil and I aren't hosting the wedding; Cindy's parents are.  Wasn't it lovely of them to include so many of our friends?"

You are 100% wrong and owe your son and future DIL a giant apology.

(BTW, just in case your daughter does get married, if she and her husband pay for the wedding themselves, you will not be included on the invitation, either.  Prepare yourself now like a grown up.  If you are not throwing the party, the invitations are not from you.  It's pretty simple.)[/quote]

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