<p>DD and I are preparing her graduation announcements and invitations to her party this weekend. Should the return address include the graduate’s name or the parents’ names? </p>
<p>Any thoughts?? I’m going back and forth between the two names and have not found an answer online yet. </p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Your name. Aren’t you giving the party in her honor??</p>
<p>As hosts, I believe the return address should be in your name.</p>
<p>Unless your sending these to her friends, make sure your (the parents) names are included. MIL received a wedding invitation a few years ago with couples names (but not parents) and had no idea who these people were.</p>
<p>It should be the hosts name, unless you have a different last name, in that case put her name for her friends. If you have the same last name and your DD’s friends can’t figure out that is her last name, than you need to question why you are inviting them!</p>
<p>Do folks really send graduation announcements to folks who might not recognize the name of the parents and/or student? We only sent announcements to family members and VERY close friends who would easily have known the student…and us. Otherwise…why would we have been sending them announcements?</p>
<p>We put our name on the invite (host), then in the invitation it said it was for my daughter and her friends. We threw a party for her friends and parents.</p>
<p>I don’t think you need to put a name on the return address at all. Formal invitations, according to several traditional sources, include the address only. Graduation invitations are often informal, though - if you were going to include a name, it would be yours.</p>