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AIBU to address wedding invitations using colleagues’ usual names differently?

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Galoiti · 14/09/2026 17:43

So this isn’t a big deal but I’m curious what others think.

My partner and I are getting married next year, we used to work together and are inviting some people from the office. DH still works in my previous work place but I know most of the people we are inviting from there.

One of the woman pretty much exclusively goes by a diminutive of her name, think an Isabella who goes by Bella or a Francesca who goes by Cesca. This is the name on her work email, her LinkedIn etc, I have almost never heard anyone use the full name. Another goes casually by a diminutive but uses the full name as her LinkedIn, work email etc.

I decided to address accordingly so using just the diminutive for person A but the full name for person B.
DP thinks this is strange and I should have either used diminutive for both or full name for both.

Was I unreasonable to address them the way I did?

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TheCoatThatLaunched1000Emails · 14/09/2026 17:51

No, it sounds sensible. Bella obviously doesn't want to be addressed as Isabella in any context as she doesn't use her full name anywhere; the other woman's LinkedIn shows she wants to be addressed in a formal context - which a traditional wedding invitation is - by her full name.

EppingIsFun · 14/09/2026 17:53

I would address them both by the name you call them face to face.

ComtesseDeSpair · 14/09/2026 17:59

A wedding invitation is a personal invitation to a friend, so I’d address it to how that person is known to you as a friend.

Work emails and LinkedIn names just reflect how they want to be recognised in that particular context - if you wouldn’t call them that, it seems unnecessarily formal to do so for an invitation, particularly since you’re using diminutives for others.

TheOriginalEmu · 14/09/2026 18:00

TheCoatThatLaunched1000Emails · 14/09/2026 17:51

No, it sounds sensible. Bella obviously doesn't want to be addressed as Isabella in any context as she doesn't use her full name anywhere; the other woman's LinkedIn shows she wants to be addressed in a formal context - which a traditional wedding invitation is - by her full name.

This. My name is Gwenllian, but people mostly call me Gwen because it’s shorter and for my non-welsh friends easier to say. But on invitations or whatever I would expect my full name as that’s my name, lol.
My daughter on the other hand exclusively uses a short form of her name and has that on all her work emails and so on.

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