Sending More than a Wedding Announcement to Deceased Father's Wife & Children
My daughter is going to have a small destination wedding this fall with a very limited number of invitations.
My father and step mother were married for 30 years. Even though we all lived in the same town, saw each other often, as well as spent every holiday together, the relationship between the two families was primarily developed as a courtesy to 'our' parents. Over the years, there was enough hurt, hostility, and jealousy to create a strain between us. We haven't had any contact since his death four years ago,
I don't want to invite them to the wedding - nor is there space to do so. I feel as if I should do something a little more personal other than sending them just the engagement announcement. Is there an 'appropriate' way of going about this? Thank you,
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Re: Sending More than a Wedding Announcement to Deceased Father's Wife & Children
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Dear Nance,
All correspondence is the couple's job and responsibility. You wouldn't be sending anything, especially engagement announcements to those not invited to the wedding. In fact, engagement announcements really are reserved for publication these days. Individual private announcements are confusing to those who receive them and it appears as if it is a plea for gifts. So, most do not send them.
If you daughter wishes to send wedding announcements after the wedding, she could include a private note.
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