High School Senior: Graduation Announcement?

[Anonymous]

Since my youngest child won't have a high school graduation, what date should I put on the announcement? The day he was supposed to graduate or the last official day of school? This is really sad...

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

We do not send announcements either but can you just not put a date changing the wording based on the current situation? Or use the last day of school.

Congratulation to Larla on her graduation from Kennedy HS!!

[Anonymous]

Last day of senior year

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We do not send announcements either but can you just not put a date changing the wording based on the current situation? Or use the last day of school.

Congratulation to Larla on her graduation from Kennedy HS!!

This. And you can add 2020 if you like.

But think long and hard about why you are sending this. The people close to you know about the graduation. To most, it will seem like a request for a gift. Know your audience and if this has hit them financially. The people close to you, like grandparents and close aunts and uncles, will likely still send something. No one else should feel obligated and announcements are taken by most as a gift grab.

[Anonymous]

I would just put June 2020. No exact date. (Or May, depending where you live.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We do not send announcements either but can you just not put a date changing the wording based on the current situation? Or use the last day of school.

Congratulation to Larla on her graduation from Kennedy HS!!

This. And you can add 2020 if you like.

But think long and hard about why you are sending this. The people close to you know about the graduation. To most, it will seem like a request for a gift. Know your audience and if this has hit them financially. The people close to you, like grandparents and close aunts and uncles, will likely still send something. No one else should feel obligated and announcements are taken by most as a gift grab.

New poster. I disagree -- While announcements back when we were in HS might have been seen as requiring a gift, today, I don't see announcements as a gift grab and neither do most of our friends and family. Especially the kinds of announcements that are the colorful photo announcements people now make on Shutterfly and similar sites. I got scads of them from families of DC's friends including friends at different high schools and felt zero compulsion to give gifts, and those to whom we sent them didn't feel obliged to give gifts either. Don't let the "it's a gift grab!" posters deter you. Let your senior pick photos and text etc. if you're doing the fun type online (does anyone really do the black-engraving-on-white-cardstock types any more anyway?)

For the date, just say "June 2020" or whatever. Everyone knows the current circumstances, OP, and won't care if there is not a specific day of the month listed. Or go with the above -- "congratulations to Larla on her graduation" etc.

[Anonymous]

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.

[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.

YOU should see announcements as tacky, OP. Because they are.

Is your child not going to college? Celebrate him when he graduates from college.

[Anonymous]

Everyone who knows the graduate well enough knows they are graduating. Announcing it shouldn't be necessary. I made a nice photo collage card with photos from DS's graduation and he sent them with thank you notes to people who sent gifts. I will do the same with DD who luckily already had graduation photos done. This way people who want them have photos for the fridge but they weren't pushed on anyone.

[Anonymous]

JFC DCUM hates literally all rites of passage.

[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.

High school grad announcements now "trailer park and tacky" PP? This sounds like something that an out-of-touch DCUM-er just made up. Most of the rest of the country still does these on a regular basis. Not sure where you've been or who died and made you the new arbiter of taste. But OP didn't ask you whether to send them. He/She asked what date to put on them.

[Anonymous]

Wondering who do you send them out to? Close relatives that are aware of the graduate or to every random cousin?

[Anonymous]

What do you mean by graduation announcements? Do you mean invitations to graduation parties? A lot of people I know have parties (most are not extravagant, really just a dinner or cookout on the patio)?