Announcements

knsears

My fiancé and I are only inviting about 50 people to our wedding. Our wedding would be too huge if we invited everyone that we wanted to. Should we send out announcements after the wedding letting people know that we got married. My concern about this is that it might look like we are soliciting for gifts which is not the case. I thought about sending out an announcement/Christmas card but we are getting married in May so that might seem a little late.

Jen4948

If you send out the announcements after the wedding you'll be fine; otherwise, it will come off as "We want you to know we're getting married but you're not invited."

But I wouldn't do it in a Christmas card.

MyNameIsNot

If you get married in May, Christmas would be a little late for an announcement.  Anyone who would really care would probably have heard about it by then already.  You could do a Christmas letter or something.  

You don't have to do them if you don't want to, but it's a nice way to send something out when you do a small wedding.  Just be sure there's nothing about gifts or registries and people won't take it as a gift grab.  Most people know that an announcement isn't a gift solicitation.  

megrat7

Imcurrently struggling/stressing over the same thing. How are you dealing with family. We have rather large families and therefore cannot invite many friends. We are considering an after party at a bar or club for those we couldn't invite for the day events.