Graduation cards / announcements - is this a thing in DC?
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Anonymous
| My son is graduating and did not print announcements - but getting some in mail from folks out on West coast/ midwest - all girls. Did i drop the ball? No one i know is doing this in DC - i do holiday cards, etc. -just wondering the norm!! ? Maybe will do w my daughter when she graduates? I think my son would be embarrassed having the pix printed and mailed out?? What is the norm here in DC? |
Anonymous
| OK and this is for kid GOING to college (eg graduating high school). It feels like the Instagram post was enough on his HS site of the college headed to?? |
Anonymous
| I've known a ton of grads last year and this year and haven't received any printed announcements. Just see the announcement on Facebook. DS just graduated and we didn't do announcements. |
Anonymous
| It's not really a DC thing. More in the south. |
Anonymous
| We have received two. Our daughter was accepted ED so we just noted her college in our Xmas card. If she was accepted after the holidays, we would just let people know in next year's Xmas card. For most people, they found out via Instagram. |
Anonymous
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It's a way for the graduate to get the graduating dollars.
I have no problem with this. Kind of like sending a wedding invitation to someone you know won't be able to attend but do it for the grift...I mean gift. |
Anonymous
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I don’t think it’s done in the DC area. I asked my senior DD about it and she said none of her friends are sending announcements.
My friends/relatives who live in other places still expect printed graduation announcements in the mail, and think it’s strange that it’s not done here. |
Anonymous
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Money grab.
100% of the people who are close to you already know your kid os graduating. |
Anonymous
| That's too bad it's not done here. We just received an announcement and photo from a graduate out west and it was lovely. My DC saw it and was looking forward to sending theirs next year. The one we received was official from the high school (as I remember when I graduated high school). Do the schools not offer that here? (MoCo) |
Anonymous
+1 it's a business and chance to get some gifts. |
Anonymous
| I think most families here would consider it a tasteless money grab. Though receiving a graduation announcement or a wedding invitation doesn’t require sending a gift. Just a card of congratulations (and prompt rsvp for the wedding). But I wouldn’t send out announcements because most consider it a money grab. |
Anonymous
| We did them. Our family does them (southern). Didn’t get nor expect money. |
Anonymous
| It sounds like a better option than the culture I had a few years ago around my DC's graduation. We had to get tons of college gear and colored balloons and drinks and just a lot of crap and put it all over the bed and photograph it and post it. It was silly and wasteful and expensive. Do do students still do that? I would have preferred to replace that with a card in a heartbeat. |
Anonymous
| No one I know does this, OP. |
Anonymous
| In the Midwest we get these all the time and we do send a card and money, but we also don’t give our kids $200/month since they were preteens so they can actually use money to have college spending money and whatnot. |