For many Christian parents of LGBTQ adult children, I think it might be easier to "take a stance for the truth" and avoid attending their weddings, inviting their partners over for dinner, or including the person they are dating in the family Christmas gathering.
None of us would consider having a dinner party, bar mitzvah or wedding without inviting all the neighbors.
Until I found out, that is, that John will be breathlessly anchoring Channel 4's alternative royal wedding coverage, inviting his friend Ariel along to sing "For Kate I Wait" and getting Nathan Williams and the betrothed Prince to fight to the death in a segment called "A Battle of Wills".
Is it permissible to extend a wedding invitation to a child without inviting the child's parents, or would that likely offend, which of course we don't want to do? E., San Francisco Inviting a few of your fiancé's children's friends is a wonderful way to have your future stepchildren feel special and included in your wedding.
In our wedding invitation example, if we're inviting the entire family, the return address of the inner envelope would have the parents' names on the first line followed by the names of the children on the second.
Some even try to bully the wedding hosts into inviting their children.
We are anxious not to offend people, either by assuming they cannot afford the cost of the wedding or by inviting them to something they can't afford.
Since most (maybe all) of your New Mexico friends are not on your wedding guest list, inviting many of them to a shower in your honor could seem like you're fishing for gifts.
But I'd have a lot more respect for France's first gay marriage if they'd done it quietly like a proper wedding instead of inviting 150 journalists and turning it into a media freak show (report, 30 May).
If you are inviting a couple, address the shower invitation the same way you would address a wedding invitation.
