Not baby related- Question on etiquette

Re: Not baby related- Question on etiquette

• 1026pumpkin member

  January 2013

  I don't think sending announcements is a requirement especially if everyone you would want to know already knows. We sent them out because we had a very small wedding and my parents have large extended families that we rarely see we figured they'd like to know we got married, but we so rarely see them and there were too many people to pick up the phone and start making calls, sending out announcements was a good solution for us.

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• cinderin member

  January 2013

  we had a smaller wedding (invited 100, about 80 came) and did not send out announcements. I would not feel like it is something you have to do, only if it is something you *want* to do.

  might get more responses on the knot... likely bumpies have been married a while :-) 

  
  

   
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• lisa5201 member

  January 2013

  I think announcements are a little old fashioned, but that's what I like about them. 

  I think the *rule* is that you send them only to those who were not invited to the wedding 

  I don't think there's anything tacky about them as long as you don't include registry information or something ridiculous.  

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• jeffsjayme

  January 2013

  I'd skip the announcement.  Unless you're also moving, then you could do a "We're married! And we've moved! Here's the new address."  Or if you're changing your name (and thus maybe your email address), you could do an email announcing your new address and that you're married.

  I'd just skip it. 

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• sugar212 member

  January 2013

  Is most of your family local? you could just do an announcement in the paper. That is very common here. If not, I would just skip it or use a wedding photo for next years (this years I guess) Christmas card. 

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• mary35699 member

  January 2013

  Thank you everyone for the replies. I will not being doing announcements, I felt that it was unnecessary but I wanted to get an outside opinion. Thanks again.

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• 526SadieSadie member

  January 2013

  You've already made your decision but I wanted to add my voice to the "it's not necessary" camp.

  Congrats on the upcoming wedding!

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• ggatlanta member

  January 2013

  lisa5201:

  I think announcements are a little old fashioned, but that's what I like about them. 

  I think the *rule* is that you send them only to those who were not invited to the wedding 

  I don't think there's anything tacky about them as long as you don't include registry information or something ridiculous.  

  +1 for this. 

  I like announcements - sure, people know you were married, but everyone likes getting mail that's not a bill!
  

  

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• aeh72 member

  January 2013

  We had a similiar wedding - only invited immediate family (parents and siblings) and our closest friends.  I never thought about sending annoucements out since everyone in our extended families knew we were getting married and were having a very small wedding.  Well, come to find out, apparently the aunts on my husband's side have a "policy" of not sending a gift if they don't get an annoucement.  That made me glad I didn't send annoucements because I would never want them to be seen as a solicitation for a gift.  It also made me think they are sort of ridiculous, as if it was a punishment of sorts to not get a gift from them, and it made me really appreciate the family members who reached out with a gift or a card congratulating us without getting an annoucement - not for the gift, per se, but for the thoughts behind it.

  

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