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Is it proper to send out wedding announcements before wedding invitations? And if so, do you send them out only to people who you plan on asking to attend or can you send them out to people who you know but can't afford to have attend as well?
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We have no family in our area, they are all spread from Massachussetts to Texas, only a few members in each place in between. We couldn't possibly place ads in all those places, especially places that have no meaning to us.
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The announcements are also called "save the date" notices. They should ONLY be sent to those people you will invite to the wedding, unless you want to be called rude or cruel. If you want a mass of people to know you are getting married, you can put an ad in the engagement section of your local newspaper, everyone I know reads it.
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- I've never actually heard of "sending out" wedding announcements, only announcing it in a local paper, etc.--it implies that you are looking for a congratulatory gift of some sort. It would be very rude to send them to people you did not intend to invite, and it could be misunderstood by these people and cause a lot of hurt feelings. Maybe you should try sending out "save the date" cards instead--to people you will be inviting.0% 0 Votes
- Announcements are sometimes confusing, as people who receive them tend to believe they are invitations (or even worse, a request for a gift...but please don't come)....I would not spend the money and postage on announcements (that's what the newspaper is for). Instead invest in Invitations only and send them to everyone you are actually inviting to the wedding.0% 0 Votes
- Wedding annoucements go out AFTER you are married. Engagement annoucements go out before you are married; if you are sending "Save the Date" cards, they go only to people you are inviting. If you send out a wedding annoucement to people before the wedding, they are going to assume it is an invite and show up. Save the Date cards can go out to people you are inviting and should say "Formal Invitation to Follow" on the bottom.
Best of luck with your big day!0% 0 Votes -
- Wedding Announcements are sent out after you get married, a friend of mine sent hers to her family that was out of the country so that they wouldn't feel left out. Some people think of this as asking for gifts but if you are close to the people that you are sending them too I think they would be happy to recieve the annoucement, now they can call you Mr. and Mrs....0% 0 Votes
- Announcements are mailed the day of the wedding or the day after the wedding. Announcements are sent to those NOT invited to the wedding . . . but who will be interested in knowing it has occurred.
Example? Dear Great Aunt Sally lives in a nursing home on the other side of the country. Her health does not permit her to travel. Send her an announcement after the ceremony.
And yes, you send announcements out to people you know but cannot afford to have attend. Just make sure announcements are mailed AFTER the ceremony. That way, no gift-giving obligation is implied.
Invitations are mailed before the wedding and sent only to those you wish to attend.
Are you perhaps thinking of save-the-dates? Save-the-dates are not necessary, unless long-distance travel is involved for many or all of your guests.
Example? Destination wedding in the Bahamas. Your guests need advance notice so they can save up for their airline tickets.
If you are having the wedding in your hometown and most (if not all) of your guests are local, then there is no need for save-the dates.
Wordings for all three . . . invitations, announcements, and save-the-dates . . . can be found at verseit.com.
http://verseit.com/VerseIt_VerseChoices.…25% 1 Vote - I don't believe it is IMproper but it's also a waste of money in my opinion. Just CALL the few people who you want to SAVE THE DATE for you. Otherwise I think it's a BIG chunk of money that could be better spent elsewhere.0% 0 Votes
- ok so we are sending out announcements and wedding invites at the same time the invites are to the people who are coming to the ceremony and the reception. The announcements are to the people who we want to know that we are getting married and just to inform them of our celebration.
Let me add on we are not expecting them to send us gifts either we just want them to know what we are doing and we can't afford to have everyone there that is just way to expensive.
Also not everyone reads the paper and we don't think it is rude we have done research on it and found out that for people who live far away you can send announcements to them it is you decision though.Source(s):
BTB 5/31/080% 0 Votes - Wedding announcements are used when people elope or had a very small wedding to announce you got married. They are ALWAYS sent after you get married and they are totally pointless to send to people who have been invited to the wedding (they already know). Most people do not send these.
What you might be thinking of are save the dates, which you send to everyone you plan to invite aboyt 6 months prior to the wedding so they can keep the date free. You only send these to people you 100% are going to invite. Sending them to people you may not be able to invite will hurt feelings and is rude.25% 1 Vote -
- In our family... (this doesnt make it proper etiquette, but an idea on a posibility)... we do things like this. First you send out an Engagement announcement. (cute lil simple card stop post card). This is basically the same as a wedding announcement except it doesnt have a date, it just warns people that there is a wedding coming sooner or later. Engagement announcements go to anybody and everybody, even people you dont plan on inviting to the wedding.
Step Two: Save the date cards. Has the wedding date and city on it. This is to everyone you plan on inviting to the wedding... reguardless if you expect them to come or not. This gives people who live farther away a chance to save up for travel expensives if they want to.
Step Three: Invites!! Goes to the same list of people you sent save the dates to. (its rude to send a save the date, and turn around and no invite someone.) Again, an invitation is just that.. and invite. Its not an obligation to attend. Some people accept, some dont! Even if you think they wont come, but you want them there... give em a chance to make that decision on their own.0% 0 Votes - A lot of people announce their wedding in the newspaper. And if you do send out 'Save-The-Dates', I'd suggest sending them to people you're planning on inviting to the wedding, or they may just assume they're invited.0% 0 Votes
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