High School Senior: Graduation Announcement?

[Anonymous]

Tacky AF.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:JFC DCUM hates literally all rites of passage.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:JFC DCUM hates literally all rites of passage.

No, DCUM is all for families celebrating events that are meaningful to them in ways that are meaningful to them. It's the expecting everyone else to be equally excited that's weird.

If you've been in touch with people for the past 18 years, anyone who cares can do the math and see that Larla is graduating this year. In an ordinary year, it's fun if an email or the Christmas letter (depending on how often you communicate with someone) includes a graduation photo. By all means, create a FB album about moving into college dorms, if, G-d willing, that ever happens.

Just don't feel obligated to mail announcements and don't work yourself into a swivet about what to put on the announcements.

[Anonymous]

We are doing announcements and depending on the style I will either just put 2020 or June 2020.

[Anonymous]

What do others think of this plan?
Graduation party invitations would be sent out in July for a tentative celebration in mid-August (if situation is deemed completely safe by then). Party would be more of a "send-off" party/celebration with close family and friends.

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous]What do others think of this plan?
Graduation party invitations would be sent out in July for a tentative celebration in mid-August (if situation is deemed completely safe by then). Party would be more of a "send-off" party/celebration with close family and friends.[/quote]

New Poster here -- this seems totally fine to me because it's an actual invitation to an event. We received a graduation announcement about a month ago for a midwest friend. In my eyes, it's a gift grab, but I'm not sending anything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What do others think of this plan?
Graduation party invitations would be sent out in July for a tentative celebration in mid-August (if situation is deemed completely safe by then). Party would be more of a "send-off" party/celebration with close family and friends.

New Poster here -- this seems totally fine to me because it's an actual invitation to an event. We received a graduation announcement about a month ago for a midwest friend. In my eyes, it's a gift grab, but I'm not sending anything.

Thank you for your response. We would not send out an announcement, it is a blatant gift grab. The party will just be very close friends and family, so not a gift grab at all as these relatives/family friends would already give gifts without the party. The party is more to celebrate HS Senior. We will bring in a catering company and photo booth or photographer to try and create memories with friends and relatives before college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please don’t do high school graduation announcements, OP. They are so trailer park and tacky. It’s a pathetic gift-grab and everyone knows it.

NP. Do them if you want to and celebrate that senior. It's not a gift grab. Nobody things of it that way. This is worth celebrating, and people are allowed to have joy. Sheesh. EVEN PEOPLE IN TRAILER PARKS.

Trying to figure out what to do for my senior as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tacky AF.

as are baby announcements, wedding announcements registering for wedding gifts, baby showers etc. Oh but those weren't tacky when you had them I am sure.

[Anonymous]

Those trailer park kids probably took their kids spots at top colleges.

[Anonymous]

I always apprciate receiving the announcements because we have a really big family and there's no way I can keep track of all 18 cousin's graduation days, etc. This year I was PARTICULARLY thrilled to receive a grad announcement and to send a gift. I think we all need to be doubly supportive of our grads this year, and to wish them well and just generally make a big old fuss over them. You guys are a bunch of Debby Downers.

And as someone who was raised working class and only recently made it into the UMC, I don't care if they're tacky. It feels good to be able to afford all of those things -- birth announcements, grad announcements, etc. and to have the time and resources to make them. (I do, however, draw the line at gender reveal parties, which are just tacky.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Those trailer park kids probably took their kids spots at top colleges.

Yes, that is a real problem in this country. The have nots just running stuff all the time now.....er, wait.......

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We don't do announcements (my mom always said they were "tacky" and just asking for gifts)

But our family will celebrate graduation on the day it was supposed to be. If restaurants are open, we will go out to eat. If not, we will get the takeout of his choice. We'll have a cake. We don't have extended family out here; my parents would have traveled under "normal" circumstances but that's not happening now.

I don't view announcements that way at all. Since there won't be a program, pictures or videos to commemorate the day, the announcement feels like the closet thing I can send to celebrate him. I plan to hold a dinner in his honor this summer.

It doesn’t celebrate him. It’s telling others (most of whom already know) that he’s graduating. It is def a gift grab.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:JFC DCUM hates literally all rites of passage.

+1

Full of rich spoiled moms, who think it's tacky that any senior might actually need said graduation money. Meanwhile they are sitting on trust funds, and gifts from their parents.

[Anonymous]

I just had to redo ours. Original one has date and time for the party. New one just says “Celebration Details to Follow”. It’s a short run, mostly for close family and friends. Because my mom and dad want one regardless. There’s no month or date, just “2020” as part of the design.