Sending out announcements

lellymine · May 2014

I feel like we've talked about this but I can't find the thread on mobile. If we have can someone link me to it? If we haven't talked about it, who are you sending announcements out to?

deepoceanmama · May 2014

I don't know if we've had a discussion about this, but I'm sending announcements to our Christmas card list. So, basically everyone that is a friend or friend of the family.

lellymine · May 2014

deepoceanmama said:
I don't know if we've had a discussion about this, but I'm sending announcements to our Christmas card list. So, basically everyone that is a friend or friend of the family.

Are you sending them to aunts and uncles of yours? Or siblings?

flojo973 · May 2014

deepoceanmama said:

I don't know if we've had a discussion about this, but I'm sending announcements to our Christmas card list. So, basically everyone that is a friend or friend of the family.

Pretty much this. I think a safe bet would be anyone that you invited to your shower.

babygabe614 · May 2014

I have given this precisely zero thought. But I keep getting emails from places like shutterfly offering free/cheap announcements so I guess I should capitalize on that and send some out when LO arrives!

We will probably just send to our Christmas card list, like @deepoceanmama said. And I will send some to my boss/coworkers since I will be out on mat leave.

deepoceanmama · May 2014

lellymine said:

I don't know if we've had a discussion about this, but I'm sending announcements to our Christmas card list. So, basically everyone that is a friend or friend of the family.
Are you sending them to aunts and uncles of yours? Or siblings?

Yea, I'm sending to all of them. My mom and MIL both like to put that kind of stuff on their fridge, so even though it won't be the real "announcement" for them (they'll be there to meet her the day she comes, and announcements won't go out for at least a week or two), I'll send them the announcement.

snowpants · May 2014

I'm cheap and I'm lazy so I'm not.

katekat8721 · May 2014

I haven't thought about this a lot. Is an email/FB announcement good enough? For the older generation I suppose I could send a card and pic. I'm also just really cheap I guess haha.

lellymine · May 2014

katekat8721 said:
I haven't thought about this a lot. Is an email/FB announcement good enough? For the older generation I suppose I could send a card and pic. I'm also just really cheap I guess haha.

We're doing a fb one for friends but my mom reminded me that most our aunts/uncles and for sure our grandparents don't have fb accounts and would want a physical announcement.

Pepper6 · May 2014

Yeah...I'm just going to make an announcement on FB. I'm too cheap/lazy to mail out actual birth announcements.

DagnyDoo · May 2014

The bulk of our list is friends of the parents, though aunts and uncles and siblings will get them too so they don't feel left out. I figure that generation loves to get them, and many of them have given baby gifts despite there not being a shower, so it's the least I can do (besides a thank you card too, of course). We are moving right after the bambino arrives, so the announcement is also serving as our "hey, we live in a different state now" notice. It will become our Christmas card list for the years I actually do them.

RaeJ004 · May 2014

deepoceanmama said:

I don't know if we've had a discussion about this, but I'm sending announcements to our Christmas card list. So, basically everyone that is a friend or friend of the family.

This exactly.

ETA: We'll be using Tiny Prints. I'm hoping they'll have their new summer designs out soon so I can stalk them.

nunzchucks · May 2014

I think ours was pretty much the Christmas card list. I highly recommend TinyPrints if anyone is looking for a good site.

ETA: no, I lied. It was the baby shower invite list.

ashquack · May 2014

yep same here! Using our Christmas card list/Shower list- and I used Tiny Prints for my "thank you's" from baby shower and they were adorable!!!

rastrau · May 2014

DH has put LO on a FB ban, so we'll be doing the old fashioned announcements to our Christmas card list and the few outliers that attended our shower. Which is fine with me, because I love mailing people things! And I'm totally the person who puts them on the fridge and leaves them up for a year, too.

I wish DH would be a little more reasonable about the FB thing since I want to announce there too, but I have to respect his very firm opinion on it. Until I can change it

tbmadeamistake · May 2014

I don't want to this time because I am tired and lazy, but I did with C so I feel like I should with Charlie...plus we have a lot of out of the country family that's not on fb, so it's nice for them to get a physical card. Basically we use our Christmas list, like PPs have said.

chloephoebecali · May 2014

Christmas card list- parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins, friends, etc. Costco is super cheap and does a great job. More simple, but affordable.

lest12 · May 2014

Is it bad if my "announcement" is really a christening invite? Our Christening will be two months after LO's EDD and our guest list is pretty much our extended families and close friends, the only people who would care to get a birth announcement anyway. I was kind of hoping to kill two birds with one stone... Slash not flood everyone's mailbox with baby stuff.

lellymine · May 2014

lest12 said:
Is it bad if my "announcement" is really a christening invite? Our Christening will be two months after LO's EDD and our guest list is pretty much our extended families and close friends, the only people who would care to get a birth announcement anyway. I was kind of hoping to kill two birds with one stone... Slash not flood everyone's mailbox with baby stuff.

I wouldn't think it was weird if I got that in the mail.

temursgirl · May 2014

@katekat8721‌ it isn't something you have to do. My relatives expect that kind of thing, so I will send them out, but I think phone calls and FB announcements are sufficient.

@chloephoebecali‌ thanks for mentioning Costco. I'm looking for really simple ones.

Our list includes mostly my relatives and family friends, as well as a few close friends and people like DH's business connections and our neighbors. With relatives, I have a general rule that what goes for one goes for all, so my older aunts and uncles who aren't on FB will want and receive announcements, but so will everyone else (cousins, etc.) who may not care and will see the FB announcement.

chloephoebecali · May 2014

Temurlang1 said:

@katekat8721‌ it isn't something you have to do. My relatives expect that kind of thing, so I will send them out, but I think phone calls and FB announcements are sufficient.

@chloephoebecali‌ thanks for mentioning Costco. I'm looking for really simple ones.

Our list includes mostly my relatives and family friends, as well as a few close friends and people like DH's business connections and our neighbors. With relatives, I have a general rule that what goes for one goes for all, so my older aunts and uncles who aren't on FB will want and receive announcements, but so will everyone else (cousins, etc.) who may not care and will see the FB announcement.

Glad to help!

Photo cards (photo paper) is $14.99 for 50 and it seems that they now have fancier ones (not sure paper) $17.25 for 25. I usually do the photo paper ones for holidays/birthday parties and have been happy.

temursgirl · May 2014

A question on this topic: my aunt and her BF live separately (in different states), but normally I send them one thing (wedding invitation, Christmas card, etc.) because they are together on those occasions. Is one announcement sufficient? On the other hand, my brother lives with my dad... two announcements?

MrsP419 · May 2014

I have never done an announcement before. Since pretty much all of my relatives and friends are on Facebook, I saw them as redundant. And I can't imagine I will have the motivation to put them together.

ElTrain5 · May 2014

My mom wanted me to send a few after my wedding, to some older more distant relatives. I probably won't send any about the baby unless she asks me to again.

mercy0606 · May 2014

Temurlang1 said:
A question on this topic: my aunt and her BF live separately (in different states), but normally I send them one thing (wedding invitation, Christmas card, etc.) because they are together on those occasions. Is one announcement sufficient? On the other hand, my brother lives with my dad... two announcements?

My older brother lives with my other brother and his family. I used to think one mailing sufficed, until one of them told me they were offended because I added him to the family's mailing. Sooooo, now I send two of everything to the same household. Grrrr

PressLove · May 2014

I'm going the Costco route and sending announcements of the newborn pics. I hadn't thought about mixing it with the christening invitations, so that may be a good plan.

@Temulang1- I usually send one per household. My brother got a little bit of an attitude with my wedding invitation, but he got over it. The BF thing is up to you. That one would depend on my relationship with him.

elsa1688 · May 2014

I decided to send out a few and pay the extra money for Minted to address them. I already had an excel sheet with addresses so all I will have to do is upload a picture.

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