More wedding nonsense! My mother is insisting we submit a write up for the local Sunday paper's wedding section. You know, one of those where they say "the bride was given in marriage by her father...", list all the bridesmaids, the groomsman, where the bride and groom went to high school, college, and where they currently work, etc. I am hesitant mainly because my current job is about one step above fast food cashier on the prestige scale; I don't need everyone I knew in elementary school to know my life has gone no where careerwise, lol.
Was your wedding in the paper? Extra super bonus points for "yes, the New York Times."
Yep, it was in my hometown paper (where my parents live) but not in the city where I live now. I only agreed because we used an engagement pic where my hair looked awesome. lol
No. We didn't care to do it and my parents didn't ask us to.
Plus we lived/married right near where we both grew up, so I doubt there was anyone who would've been surprised by the news.
I interned for my local paper in college and that's part of what I did ... wrote up wedding and birth announcements. (ETA: and we didn't give enough of a shit to call people if there was job/education info missing, lol ... if you had names you were pretty much in)
Yes, but I am from a small Southern town and so is my DH. It is pretty much required. We turned it in a little late so it ran a weekend or two after the wedding and my mom got questions as to why it wasn't in there the day after the wedding. We did not run it in the paper of where we were living at the time because it would have been pretty expensive. I can't remember if we ran it in DH's hometown paper as well. We did include education and jobs.
It was definitely in our college's alumni magazine.
OMG everyone puts their wedding photos in our college alumni magazine. Along with a big banner of the school's name. It is a big thing to take the picture with all the guests at the wedding with all the alumni/parents etc that are associated with the school.
Post by spunkarella on Jan 21, 2015 15:15:02 GMT -5
We did it right before the wedding, and it's very common in my hometown.
So and so are pleased to announce their upcoming wedding...then parents, college, jobs, wedding location, reception to follow. All friends and family are invited to attend, or invitations will be mailed.
I think the write ups after the fact* are weird. In my town, only snooty people do that. But almost everyone does the announcement beforehand.
*ETA: the ones with bridesmaids, dress descriptions, the flowers, menu, etc. I've got no beef with simply announcing you got married afterward.
I'm so shocked by people who have never seen a newspaper wedding announcement. I used to love looking at those when I was a kid. Like 8-10 years old? I think they came in the Sunday paper.
I have the newspaper announcement from my great-grandmother's wedding somewhere. I think it was at her parents' house and her youngest sister was her bridesmaid, and it had the description of what they wore and the luncheon served afterward. Since this was about 1928, it's pretty neat.