Sending announcements early?

jdbbella

We are having a small beach wedding. We are hesitant to send out invitations to everyone and thought about announcements, but we would like to send the announcements at the same time as the invitations. That isn't proper, but could we get away with it?

janedoe1113a

No, announcements should be sent out after the wedding.  Invitations sent out before, announcements after.  If someone receives an announcement before the wedding, they're going to think it's an invitation.

MyNameIsNot

Nope.  Annoucements can only go out after.  People will confuse it with an invitation. 

If you want to let people know ahead of time, you can annouce your engagement in the paper.

squirrly

No, you could not.  The announcement would read:

Suzy Smith
and
Joe Brown
are pleased to announce
their marriage
Some date in the future

which wouldn't make any sense at all, and you'd have people convinced it's an invitation.  Either send them an invite, or wait and mail the announcement the day OF the wedding.

TurtlesAllTheWayDown

Just mail them the day-of. What's the point in letting people know in advance that they aren't coming to your wedding? So on the day you get married they can think, "Oh, so-and-so is getting married today in some far away place I wasn't invited to." Announcements are totally fine, after the fact.