Combine holiday cards and birth announcement?

[felicity]

Anyone due around the holidays planning on doing this or has anyone ever seen this done? I was thinking of one of those photo cards that has the birth announcement info, but also something about Merry Christmas on there. Is that weird? Or would it be better to just do a regular birth announcement? No way in hell am I sending out two batches of cards this year, so they are either getting a birth announcement or a combo. 

Also, any tips on getting good deals on photo cards? 

[rachelgreen]

I would do this if I knew bunny was going to be here before the holidays. I'm due the 29th of December so I have no idea when I'll go. I'm probably going to send out a smaller batch of the "musts" for Christmas and then send out new year/new baby cards/announcements to the full list.

As for tips, I haven't used them for cards before but I know Vista print always has deals and coupon codes.

[demandypants]

this is what we did with DD, she was born the first of december. So we took a few pictures of her in some holiday jammies and used it along with a combined holiday/baby details card. If we hadn't, I doubt we would have sent holiday cards at all... and probably would have procrastinated birth announcements past the point of really making sense to send anything out SO it was either that or nothing.

[lillaguma]

I just saw a deal on cards on Groupon yesterday - www.groupon.com/deals/zazzle-21-washington-dc

I'm sure a lot of those will start popping up about now, so keep an eye on that and probably Living Social too.

I think a combined announcement would be cute, I ran a little search on pinterest for holiday birth announcement and there were some cute things.

[vtdiamond]

This is exactly what I'm doing! I've been looking at Minted and Tiny Prints and both have a few options. We are getting newborn photos taken and my plan is to get a few "holidayish" ones plus one of DH and I with the babies to use for this.

No way would I do separate cards!

[sillygoosegirl]

If I send out either, I'm sure it will be a combo.

That said, our wedding save the date cards looked like holiday cards and were sent out in December. Everyone loved them, but... virtually nobody noticed we were also announcing the date of our wedding.

But I don't imagine you'd have that problem with a photo of your baby on the front. :-)

[bluelikejazz]

We haven't sent out Christmas cards since we got married (5 years ago), so if we do them this year it will for sure be a combo (Due Nov 27).

[busterpup]

I did this and DD was born in October, so not even really close to the holidays haha. I just wasn't up to sending out two. Everyone seemed to like it.

[azurely]

I'm due 11/16 and we are combining our holiday cards and birth announcement.

[cb]

That's what I am doing. I got Xmas Jammie's for my two girls and plan to have them pose with the baby for his newborn pics which will be sometime in November. I got him a cute reindeer hat to wear. I never did birth announcements with my other two though. I'm looking at it more like a Christmas card with the baby's name and stats added on.

[llamamama]

I might do the Christmas card early with just me, my dh, and dd. I like to send cards out early like late November/ early December. Baby is due December 18th and I don't want to have a ton on my to do list right before he comes. Then I will probably send out a birth announcement in early January.