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Did anyone send Engagement Announcements?

MrsP2Be Posted: Jun 11, 2005 04:31 PM+

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Posted: Jun 11, 2005 04:31 PM

Did anyone send Engagement Announcements?

NOT a Save the Date type thing? I'm just wondering if anyone does it anymore, seems very uncommon.

ElegantBride Posted: Jun 11, 2005 04:43 PM+

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Posted: Jun 11, 2005 04:43 PM

Re: Did anyone send Engagement Announcements?

No. We just called very immediate family and friends when we just got engaged. Though we did not have an engagement party (just a dinner with immediate family), we did not want it to look like we were 'fishing for gifts'. Some people view engagement announcements like that. Word of mouth was sufficient for us.

marymoon Posted: Jun 11, 2005 06:12 PM+

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Posted: Jun 11, 2005 06:12 PM

Re: Did anyone send Engagement Announcements?

I did/ I have such a big family, and we don't talk often with all of them, so I didn't want to make dozens of phone calls. I sent out announcements with a photo. if you do a BHB search you can probably fund the pic. I made them on the computer. The front was a picture of Cinderella's castle (we were engaged at WDW) and I put a star at the top and it said 'when you wish upon a star...'

and in the isnide it said 'your dreams come true. and there was a little heart shaped pic or snow white and prince charming. I also rubber cemented a wallet size of us in front of the castle to the left inside part of the card.

JP&EP Posted: Jun 11, 2005 06:45 PM+

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Posted: Jun 11, 2005 06:45 PM

Re: Did anyone send Engagement Announcements?

We sent them to family and close friends. They looked like these. We got them from ebay.

leese Posted: Jun 11, 2005 08:12 PM+

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Posted: Jun 11, 2005 08:12 PM

Re: Did anyone send Engagement Announcements?

since it was close to xmas, we sent out ones that (i think are in one of my photo albums) that said

'Christmas Came Early'

and had a pic of us right after we got engaged.... then on the other side, it said 'We got engaged'...

so it killed two birds with one stone.

mbm750 Posted: Jun 11, 2005 10:02 PM+

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Posted: Jun 11, 2005 10:02 PM

Re: Did anyone send Engagement Announcements?

We did them - we resisted at first, but our families really wanted them. We did photo greeting card announcements from Wal-Mart - they were super-cute and very cheap, and everybody loved them!

MrsP2Be Posted: Jun 12, 2005 07:22 AM+

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Posted: Jun 12, 2005 07:22 AM

Re: Did anyone send Engagement Announcements?

JP&EP - that's really nice.

I don't know, i've been toying with the idea since we're not having an eparty now and he has such a large family.

MayBride06 Posted: Jun 12, 2005 08:00 AM+

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Posted: Jun 12, 2005 08:00 AM

Re: Did anyone send Engagement Announcements?

Posted by ElegantBride

No. We just called very immediate family and friends when we just got engaged. Though we did not have an engagement party (just a dinner with immediate family), we did not want it to look like we were 'fishing for gifts'. Some people view engagement announcements like that. Word of mouth was sufficient for us.

i received an Engagement announcment and thought it was tacky! JMO

ChrissynRicky Posted: Jun 12, 2005 09:05 AM+

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Posted: Jun 12, 2005 09:05 AM

Re: Did anyone send Engagement Announcements?

I know you said 'no STD' type of things, but our E.Announcement was also an STD for those who don't know.

candb Posted: Jun 12, 2005 09:46 AM+

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Posted: Jun 12, 2005 09:46 AM

Re: Did anyone send Engagement Announcements?

Posted by MrsP2Be

NOT a Save the Date type thing? I'm just wondering if anyone does it anymore, seems very uncommon.

Nope, we just sent a STD. I think that it signifies that you're announcing your engagement. I don't think I would do both.
I know a lot of people do an announcement in the newspaper.

jennymac Posted: Jun 12, 2005 10:27 AM+

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Posted: Jun 12, 2005 10:27 AM

Re: Did anyone send Engagement Announcements?

I sent an email and a link to our website.

SweetCin704 Posted: Jun 12, 2005 10:35 AM+

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Posted: Jun 12, 2005 10:35 AM

Re: Did anyone send Engagement Announcements?

We just called close family and I emailed friends. I knew we were having an e-party, so I didn't feel right sending out e notices also.

sarahbelle Posted: Jun 12, 2005 03:58 PM+

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Posted: Jun 12, 2005 03:58 PM

Re: Did anyone send Engagement Announcements?

FIL's sent annoucements to their family. It was one that you can make on your own printer.

cindyandkevin Posted: Jun 13, 2005 10:44 AM+

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Posted: Jun 13, 2005 10:44 AM

Re: Did anyone send Engagement Announcements?

We did! Made them on my computer and printed them out on pretty paper. Included our pic, the date of the wedding (so it doubled as our STD), and also noted our change of address since we moved in together. We sent it to every one tho our close family and friends already knew!