Announce birth with full name or nickname or both?

Ooops, just seen update too, beautiful name however you say/shorten it.

Try, Florence, Floss to her friends. It make people feel a bit more special that you're willing to share a name that is special to you.

Beautiful name, by the way I'm interested to know how you know that there were only 14 in Ireland last year. Is there a list on the internet somewhere? Dying to check it!!
To answer you question, I'd put either in the announcement, but not both, whichever you prefer people to call her when they meet her.

Oops! Just seen OP update. Hurrah for Florence, notsomuch Floss! Big congrats x

We said "delighted to announce the arrival of DD1, Bess, born at X o'clock weighing X. Full name Elizabath Babybird Birdofthenorth" (NB, not her actual middle and surnames )

Male Florences are very much a Cork thing - also, it's pronounced 'Flurrence' in my bit of Cork, anyway! Usually shortened to 'Flor' (pronounced 'Flur') or 'Flurry'...

Congratulations! I think you have done the right thing. Florence is a beautiful, beautiful name. I am in Ireland too and I think people might not recognise Floss as a nn for Florence, but get great mileage out of being silly about Floss (dental etc)

We announced our daughter's nickname. We didn't intend to ever use her full name but wanted to give her the option of a more grown up name.

PS personally, I find it annoying if someone gives their child a traditional name with a common shortening but I don't know if I'm "allowed" to use the shortened version or not. A friend called her son Samuel but always refers to him as "Little Man" and I don't know if I can call him Sam or if it has to be Samuel. To be safe, I try & stick to Samuel but do worry that I may have caused offence when I call him Sam. Same with another friend who has a an Alexandra who she refers to as Beanie. I'm not going to use Beanie but can I use Alex?
By the way, if sending a text with the name, make sure there's room for all of "Floss". A friend called their child Katherine & wanted the shortening to be "Katie" but the text ended at "Kat" for some reason so that's what we all called the baby for ages until it was politely explained to us. All of the cards referred to "Kat", various name things all had "Kat" on them etc. If you've decided on "Floss", you don't want to end up with "Flo" on everything.

Full name with nn in brackets. DD has a traditional name which is usually shortened and we wanted to "control" what it got shortened to, especially as we didn't like the most common shortening. I realise that later in life she may end up with different shortenings but her home one will be this one. She still has other nicknames, some of which have evolved from her shortening and others pf which are completely random.

I like announcing both! Our friends did it with a boy called Laurence (Laurie) :)

We did the equivalent of:

Announcing the birth of Philippa Charlotte*....Pippa was born on 25th April. Mum and baby are well etc...

*not DD's real name

We just told our immediate family and they told everyone else. Announcements seem very old fashioned to me (although this was before Facebook or even email was so widely used). I'm pretty sure that we used the long version of their names, and then most people used the diminutives they preferred. To be honest when they were tiny dh and I mostly used nicknames totally unrelated to their birth certificates in any case.

OH and DS2 has a shortening of a name as his name. I constantly have to correct people who lengthen it to the longer version - which we have not used!

LOL

DS1 has a long name but is only ever known by his nn, unless he is in trouble.

It was always our intention to use the nn. When he was born we said his full name but to be known as nn.

Only my MIL used the long version for the first twelve months but even she caved in after that and now everyone uses his nn. All his school stuff is labelled with it.

You say:

Pleased to announce the birth of Florence (to be known as Floss).

That sounds sensible! x

I am going to buck the trend as we announced nn only. However I think the correct thing to do is first name (nn) surname

But I think nn only is perfectly acceptable if you are 100% committed to the nn! It means you never have to correct people as they always use your preferred nn.

I say full name. We decided a different nn for dd before she was born, but actually called her by her long name for several months - the nn didn't really come into play until her character emerged - if that makes sense.

On the other hand, a friend of mine has a ds called Ned and she announced him as "Ned (long name Edward) was born at xxxxxxx"

I think Floss or Flossie is a perfectly well accepted nn for Florence. I know a couple - and it doesn't make me think of dental floss at all.

Still doesn't make sense, sorry, Katbag.

I'm afraid I thought "dental floss" too...

Floss?as in dental
Christ that's grim
Florence is v pretty name
Floss is ghastly

Sorry, should have elaborated, on registers etc I've always had to ask people to use my (not obvious) nickname. As a child it's quite a big deal, now I often just don't realise people are referring to me!