Wedding invitation etiquette: Did I make a mistake?
Today, I started disseminating our wedding invitations. Later, my aunt found out that I addressed our Barangay Chairman / Captain and his wife as "Mr. and Mrs. [Surname]" instead of using the title "Kapitan/Chairman."
Since then, she has been sending me multiple messages saying it's embarrassing and disrespectful not to use his official title. However, I honestly thought that addressing them as "Mr. and Mrs." was still formal, respectful, and appropriate for a wedding invitation.
I've chosen not to respond to my aunt's messages yet because I don't want to escalate the situation, but now I'm wondering if I genuinely committed an etiquette mistake or if this is being blown out of proportion.
Would you consider "Mr. and Mrs." inappropriate for a Barangay Captain on a wedding invitation? And how would you respond to a relative who keeps criticizing you over something like this?
Any advice would be appreciated.
For context:
It was actually the chairman's wife whom we personally asked to be our Ninang. Since mag-asawa sila, we addressed the invitation to both of them as a couple using "Mr. and Mrs." We weren't sending it as an official invitation to a public official in his professional capacity.
