Kindly note that Mr. Louis and his wife Ms Mary

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Is the following sentence correct and natural?

Kindly note that Mr. Louis and his wife Ms Mary have confirmed a group with us in November and they will be staying with us that upcoming week.
 

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Kindly note that Mr. Louis and his wife Ms Mary have confirmed a group with us in November and they will be staying with us that upcoming week.
I think the sentence raises many questions, especially without the context given. Is this a booking for accommodation? For how many people? What date?

Please elaborate on what you mean by the underlined parts.
 

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After Mr, Mrs and Ms, we use someone's surname, not their first name. We would say "Mr Smith and his wife, Mary, have confirmed ..." or "Mr and Mrs Smith have confirmed ...".
If the speaker and listener are on first-name terms with those people, they'd say "Louis and Mary have confirmed ...".
As tedmc said, the rest of the piece is very unclear. What is the context of the piece? Is this about a hotel booking?
 

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Please close that thread.
 

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Please be more considerate of other members. Two members gave up their free time to respond to your question. Your deleting the question after they responded means that they wasted their time.
 

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I'm so sorry about that.😭
 

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I've put the original post back as it was. @output - Never delete any part of a post once it has received responses.
 

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Is the following sentence correct and natural?

Kindly note that Mr. Louis and his wife Ms Mary ...

It isn't natural because we know from the word 'wife' that she is married, and we use 'Ms' when we don't know the marital status of an adult female, or when the woman herself chooses to be known as 'Ms' if she thinks it's nobody's business but her own.

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In some parts of the world it is customary to refer to men as Mr followed by their forename. When I worked in India I was always addressed and referred to as Mr Peter. I don't know about Hong Kong where the OP hails from.
 

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I believe it might be customary in some parts of the US to use "Miss" before a woman's first name even if she's married. I don't just mean when addressing her formally - all the time!
I follow a vlog by a man who lives with his elderly parents (his mother has advanced dementia). With the exception of family, everyone they come into contact with (carers, restaurant waiters, hairdressers) refers to his mother as "Miss Betty". This sounds really unnatural to my BrE ears, partly because it sounds very formal but also because she is clearly married.
 
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