Wedding announcements?

lehc723

Are these a faux pas now? I always was under the impression that you sent an announcement to anyone you did not invite who did not attend who had not sent a gift, but DH thinks it's gift-grubbing. I certainly don't mean for it to be that, so I thought I'd poll you ladies. Thoughts?

ETA: Thanks for the help, everyone. We purchased some, but since the consensus seems to be they're out-of-date, we may not send them.

ericaandtom2012

Announcements are for people you didn't invite, as a way to let them know the event happened.  The people you invited, but did not attend know that you got married - they were invited to it.  I think if you send it to invitees that did not attend it would look gift-grabby.

lehc723

Yes, sorry, I did mean did not invite and also have not sent a present "Not" is always a bad word to leave out by accident. ;

achiduck

I have absolutely no intention of sending these out. We invited everyone we wanted to be there and FB pretty much covers the rest. 

mbuckley85

Its just another thing to pay for etc.  I'm not going to bother with them.

BrittneyRN

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-club-boards_october-2012-weddings_wedding-announcements?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding Club BoardsForum:56b9bcef-1e34-456e-81f5-cfaa107456b2Discussion:9f05ae05-f85a-4002-9f6e-101ee9e29240Post:dedfd49b-2c74-45bc-bc6e-debdcbb3d315">Re:Wedding announcements?</a>:
[QUOTE]Yes, sorry, I did mean did not invite and also have not sent a present

"Not" is always a bad word to leave out by accident. ;
Posted by lehc723[/QUOTE]



I know you probably don't mean for it to sound this way, but the way you word it, it does sound gift grabby. Like "oh hey so and so wasn't invited, but they never sent us a gift, so let's send them a wedding announcement." I'd skip them. I don't really see the point.

lehc723

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-club-boards_october-2012-weddings_wedding-announcements?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20Club%20BoardsForum:56b9bcef-1e34-456e-81f5-cfaa107456b2Discussion:9f05ae05-f85a-4002-9f6e-101ee9e29240Post:3f86868b-fe54-4f1f-a67b-f9cfb00b3dee">Re:Wedding announcements?</a>:
[QUOTE]In Response to Re:Wedding announcements? : I know you probably don't mean for it to sound this way, but the way you word it, it does sound gift grabby. Like "oh hey so and so wasn't invited, but they never sent us a gift, so let's send them a wedding announcement." I'd skip them. I don't really see the point.
Posted by BrittneyRN[/QUOTE]
I get what you mean, and totally agree. Obviously, yes, wording of this post was not the thing I did best yesterday, ha. In the end, we did pick a few up, I have no idea if we'll use them, maybe we'll let our parents send some out to people that didn't get invited if they want to. I ended up Googling as well and a lot of stuff out there says that in this age of social media, it's kind of just a waste of time, which I can't say I disagree with. But, whatever, having twenty extra pieces of paper in my house that we don't use won't be the end of the world.

Thanks, ladies!