small private ceremony - wedding announcements/at home cards
My fiancee and I are planning to have a small, private wedding with immediate family only but we would like to send announcements to share the wonderful news.
A few questions...
1. Is it appropriate for my parents to send the announcements or should they come from us? Is it appropriate for my parents to send announcements to friends/relatives of my fiancee?
2. In the months before the wedding my fiancee and I will be making a major relocation cross country and would like to share that as well. Is it appropriate to send "At Home" cards? should we make some reference to our new location in the announcement?
any advice and/or wording is GREATLY appreciated!
Thank you
Etiquette Now
WEDDING ETIQUETTE EXPERT
Mar 21, 2006, 10:37 AM
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Re: [aew] small private ceremony - wedding announcements/at home cards
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Dear Announcing,
Anyone can mail these for you. Traditionally the parents of the bride would be 'announcing'. But these days with more couples hosting their own weddings, they announce.
This is a traditional annoucement with both parents announcing:
Mr. and Mrs. James Walker
and
Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Jones
announce the marriage of
Just exchange your names for the parents if you are hosting. All annoucements can be sent from one location. It doesn't matter.
If you want to combine the two cards, you may. Just list the new address below the annoucement.
These would be sent to only those who need to know. The receivers of the announcements are not obligated to give gifts. However, if announcements are given to parent's associates that you don't know, it could be interpreted as a plea for gifts. So, please ask your parents for discretion.
small private ceremony - wedding announcements/at home cards
