Thursday, June 27, 2013

After the Big Day: Proper Wedding Announcement Etiquette


When it comes to weddings some people focus on making a big impression on their guests during the actual ceremony, but some people like to wow their guests after the ceremony with special wedding announcements. Your wedding announcement should reflect you and your partner's personal tastes, and it should ideally help reflect the theme of your wedding. Planning a wedding can be very expensive, but your announcements don't have to cost you a lot of money. You can find affordable wedding announcements almost anywhere online, and if you use your imagination you could come up with an announcement that's both unique and budget friendly at the same time.

Show, Don't Tell

Many marriage announcements contain a single picture of the newlyweds and information about the date of the ceremony, but some people like to add a little more. In your announcements you could choose to include pictures of the wedding parties, and a nice picture of the reception. Your friends will be able to use your announcement as a keepsake, and also look at the multiple pictures of your special day to truly remember just how special it was.

Keep in Mind Friends and Families who Couldn't Attend

Your announcement should function as a keepsake for friends and family, and also act as a way to inform guests who couldn't attend your ceremony about your marriage. This may sound like more work, but some newlyweds find it easier to make one kind of announcement for guests who were able to attend and another for loved ones who weren't able to come. You general wedding announcement can just be a simple statement of the date of your ceremony, and the announcements for people who couldn't come could contain some pictures of the ceremony and reception so they can see what it was like. Also remember that you don't have to spend a lot of money to have memorable marriage announcements. You can find beautiful cheap wedding announcements and fill them with your detailed memories, and that will be enough to show people your wedding who weren't able to attend.

Be Timely

The general rule for wedding announcements is to send them out the morning of the wedding, but some brides and grooms don't have enough time to stop at the post office on their way to the chapel. Ideally you'd like the announcements to arrive relatively soon after the wedding so it's still fresh in everybody's mind, so you don't have to stick to the day of rule. Just be sure to send them before your honeymoon, when you come back too much time may have passed.

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