From Wedding invite to Elopement anoucement?

Mrs. Arr · May 2010

So FI and I decided, after a very long convo and about a month of thinking, to scrap the full wedding and elope. I have not sent out STDs or invites yet so I'm good on that front. My question is, how should the elopement annoucement be worded?

TIA,
Mrs. ARR

laurenclaire1386 · May 2010

Elopement announcement? I thought the point of eloping was that you didnt' tell anyone.

Mrs. Arr · May 2010

well yeah, but since everyone was expecting to attend my wedding I'd like to let them know what happened without having to call all 100 people. Of course I'll still have to call my close family, but that's a lot of phone calls.

skippylouwho · May 2010

It's a wedding announcement, mailed afteward. Talk to anyone that supplies invitations, they will also have announcements that you can have printed (or print your own) and send them. Usually shortly after you return from eloping.

laurenclaire1386 · May 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_wedding-invite-elopement-anoucement?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:435bd5b9-90b7-419d-8659-efed8b18d468Post:a077778d-b9f1-4cc6-8a01-635aee9930de">Re: From Wedding invite to Elopement anoucement?</a>:
[QUOTE]well yeah, but since everyone was expecting to attend my wedding I'd like to let them know what happened without having to call all 100 people. Of course I'll still have to call my close family, but that's a lot of phone calls.
Posted by Mrs. Arr[/QUOTE]
Well, if you didn't send out save the dates or invitations, I don't see why anyone needs an announcement. By all means, tell your close family, but I don't think anyone else really needs an explanation.

danieliza1127 · May 2010

You would just send out wedding announcements the day of or day after the wedding.

Mrs. Arr and Mr. Arr were married on xyz date!

That's pretty much it. You could google wedding announcements for more info or wording examples.

Mrs. Arr · May 2010

Right, okay, that makes sense. Thanks.

kikibaby · May 2010

I agree with LC.

tlv204 · May 2010

Just to make sure, you're going to send them out afterward, right? I just googled for a bit, and I like this wording if you want to go pretty informal and don't want your parents to be the ones announcing it:

We did it!
Hylie and Liam
are happy to announce
we are now
Mr. and Mrs. Liam Butler
We exchanged vows
Saturday, the sixteenth of July
Nineteen Hundred Ninety Eight

Or

Cristina Jennifer Paulette
and
Jackson James Rocker
are pleased to announce
that they were married
in a private ceremony
on Friday, the nineteenth of April
Two thousand two
at Tillmans Landing
Golden, Colorado

aMrsin09 · May 2010

Just send out wedding announcements to the people that you would have sent an invitation to. They are mailed the day after the wedding (or very shortly after). Most invitation sites have wording options for them, but it's almost exactly like the invite wording, just in past tense, and you don't put the time or location, just city and state.

Mrs. Arr · May 2010

Thanks tlv204 and aMrsin09, that's exactly what i was looking for.

Kikibaby and Laurenclaire1386 - Everyone was going to have to travel a minimum of 3 hours on a Tuesday, so even though I never sent out STDs or invites they were all going to have to make travel plans to come to the wedding and had been notified informally by word of mouth. So I wanted to let them all know we eloped, rather then leave them all hanging and possibly making travel plans for a wedding that was not going to occur.

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