Wedding Announcement Card
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Announcement cards are delivered after a wedding if there were no invitations supplied. They are often sent instead of invitations to friends who live at too far not to be present at the wedding. They call for no acknowledgment although it is habitual to send either a note expressing good wishes or a gift of some kind. If one lives in the same community one should call on the bride's mother, and if the bride's card is enclosed, on the bride herself shortly after she comes back from the honeymoon. This is the habitual form for the announcement card:
Name of father/mother
announce the marriage of their son/daughter
Name of the bride
to
Name of the groom
Month, Day Year
one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one
In case of a second marriage of the bride, the announcement card reads in this manner:
Name of father of the bride
and
Name of mother of the bride
announce their marriage
Month Day Year
The bride uses the announcement above only when she is a widow. A divorcee uses her own first and second names, with the surname of the divorced husband.
The announcement card is engraved on sheets of white paper similar in size and texture to those used for the invitation. It is put up on the day of the wedding. The forms given above may be changed by adding the name of the church in which the ceremony was organized, or the home address of the bride if it was a home wedding.
With the wedding invitation or the announcement card the "at home" card of the bride may be enclosed, giving the date of her return from the honeymoon and her coming address.
It is most emphatically proper for you to deliver announcements to people whom you'd like to have at the wedding but can't squeeze in. It's even proper to send announcements to people whom you wouldn't commonly invite, but who might be happy and fascinated to know about your son's marriage.
The intention of an announcement is merely to announce that a wedding took place. Receiving one makes no obligation to send a gift or card. Some of your more interest and more organized relatives probably will send some token of good wishes, but this should not be expectable.
Since the wedding announcement informs people of an event that has already taken place, it is sent so that it will be received after the wedding. The usual pattern is to order the announcements at the same time as the invitations, address them in advance, and then drop them in the mail on the morning of the wedding. This practice isn't mandatory, just convenient!
If the bride's family is financing the wedding and they are not interested in sending announcements, you can still send announcements to your friends, at your own expense. You don't need to care about whether the announcements match the invitations, as no one will receive both.
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