2007-07-14 21:07:00 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Family & Relationships ➔ Weddings
You are obligated to send the couple a handwritten personal message congratulating them on their marriage. Accompanying this message with a gift is purely voluntary. If you feel like you WANT to give a gift, go ahead. It is almost always OK to give someone a present, special occasion or not. However, if don't know these people well or simply have no wish to give them gifts -- then don't.
Even tho many brides and grooms seem to think differently, gift giving is ALWAYS a voluntary activity. Gifts are to be APPRECIATED but never EXPECTED.
2007-07-15 00:06:28 · answer #1 · answered by kill_yr_television 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A wedding announcement is just that . . an announcement. It is mailed out to the people who were not invited to the wedding AFTER the wedding takes place. It should be mailed out within seven to ten days of the wedding ceremony.
When you receive a wedding announcement you can call the happy couple or you can send them a congratulatory card or note (or do nothing at all), you are not obligated to buy them a gift. If you wish to buy them a gift, it is your choice.
Answered by: A Certified wedding specialist / A Professional bridal consultant / A Wedding ceremony officiant
2007-07-15 09:32:46 · answer #2 · answered by Avis B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
here's an article from theknot.com i found:
Invitations: Wedding Announcements
You're married. Now tell it to the world! Here are tips for handling wedding announcements.
Want to let faraway friends, relatives, and colleagues know you've gotten hitched? Send announcements. Here's our quick and easy guide to saying it with style.
Why Send Them?
You don't have to send announcements. If everyone you want to tell about your nuptials is at the wedding, there's no need. But if you have a small wedding or tons of extended family, friends, or colleagues, announcements let people who weren't invited know you made it official. Some people view announcements as a gift solicitation, but that's not the case: A wedding announcement is like a newspaper announcement that's directed at specific people. (If anyone does send you a gift, send a thank-you note right away!)
If straying from etiquette is like sinning in your family, you might want to read up at-home cards, too!
Who Gets Them?
Announcements are especially useful if you want to let professional colleagues know you're changing your name because you're now married. If you're having an intimate wedding, there may still be tons of pals and family members you want to tell. If your parents hosted the wedding but have many friends and colleagues who were not invited, they may want to send announcements.
How to Word Them?
Formal announcements are worded like wedding invitations, except that the wedding has already taken place. (You can even match the style, font, and paper of your invitations -- at any rate, they should have the same level of formality.) Your parents can announce your wedding (especially if they hosted it and their names were on the invites) or you two can do the honors.
# If your parents announce it:
Mr. and Mrs. James McDeal
have the honor to announce
the marriage of their daughter
[or "announce the marriage of their daughter"]
Samantha Regina
to
Edward Michael Gallagher
Sunday, the first of March
Nineteen hundred and ninety-eight
St. Thomas Beckett Church
Mount Prospect, Illinois
# If you two announce your own wedding:
Samantha Regina McDeal
and
Edward Michael Gallagher
announce their marriage
Sunday, the first of March
When to Send Them?
Send announcements on the morning of your wedding day -- or as the old joke goes, on your way from the ceremony to the reception ("Pull over, post office!"). We'll cut you some slack, though: The night before is fine. Just don't send them too soon -- you're announcing an event that has already happened! You could also enlist your mom, maid of honor, or best man to drop them in the mailbox the morning after.
-- Tracy Guth
hope this helped!
2007-07-15 18:19:25 · answer #3 · answered by tvelez128 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A wedding announcement simply lets people know that you plan to marry or have married. It carries no obligations!
I'm in Canada, so do not know U.K. costs.
You can wear whatever you want to your own wedding!
2007-07-15 04:11:58 · answer #4 · answered by Donna G 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is no obligation. If the announcement is sent out prior to the wedding then it is simply announcing your upcoming marriage and if sent out afterwards is simply informing that you have married.
2007-07-15 06:21:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
none. just states you are married or getting married and the info about you and your spouse(to be)
2007-07-15 06:05:47 · answer #6 · answered by nataliexoxo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋