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Did you announce your wedding in the paper?

42 replies

Middlelanehogger · 09/05/2023 21:51

Which paper? Do people still do this? Do they restrict who can announce their weddings/engagements (like do you have to be famous or upper class etc)?

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Ginger1982 · 09/05/2023 22:00

My mum put notice of mine in the local paper. Anyone can do it.

parietal · 09/05/2023 22:02

my parents probably put a notice in The Times. you pay about £50 to put in a notice for births / deaths / marriages. easy to do online.

Highlyflavouredgravy · 09/05/2023 22:03

My sister's was announced in the times. Anyone csn fo it!

SallyWD · 09/05/2023 22:03

No, I didn't think it would be of interest to anyone else apart from friends and family (who already knew).

Marsyas · 09/05/2023 22:03

We did, in both our local papers, but our mums put the ads in. This was 15 years ago though.

autumnboys · 09/05/2023 22:03

In the local paper, yes, but this was late 90s and still quite common locally to us.

Hellocatshome · 09/05/2023 22:04

No because no one would care and not many people read papers anymore so its a waste of money. But if you want to anyone can do it you just pay your money and they stick it in.

Doggymummar · 09/05/2023 22:05

Are there still local papers ? My nam used to read the deaths, proper charmer she was

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Middlelanehogger · 09/05/2023 22:06

Oh interesting. I was talking to an American friend and she said it was an upper class thing to have your wedding announced in the New York Times. As in they wouldn't just let anyone do it. Maybe they're just particularly snobby I guess.

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Flamingowild · 09/05/2023 22:06

Yes in 2005 my parents put it in the local paper. Also there used to be a weddings supplement a few times a year where the wedding photographers submitted photos of all their brides and grooms with a little bit of info about them such as names, town and parents names. Seems so old fashioned now with social media taking over things like this!

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Middlelanehogger · 09/05/2023 22:07

Doggymummar · 09/05/2023 22:05

Are there still local papers ? My nam used to read the deaths, proper charmer she was

Haha, I love this

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CurlyhairedAssassin · 09/05/2023 22:07

I would have thought it was quite a quaint thing to do these days, and purely for the sake of tradition. No-one would seriously be reading them, I'm sure. It's the sort of thing you'd have done so you could keep the newspaper from that day as a keepsake perhaps?

Delphigirl · 09/05/2023 22:09

Yes, Times and Telegraph. All kids went in for their births too. Seems mad in hindsight but they each have the paper they were in so that’s moderately interesting for them.

TomeTome · 09/05/2023 22:11

Yes, my parents did, but I am disgustingly posh. It was a fairly long time ago though. People read the paper over breakfast though then and then you used it for stuff and saw names you knew in passing.

rainraingoawaay · 09/05/2023 22:11

We did, in local papers and The Times / Telegrapg! Engagement was also announced. It's a births / deaths / marriages thing, we announced family deaths too.

rainraingoawaay · 09/05/2023 22:12

rainraingoawaay · 09/05/2023 22:11

We did, in local papers and The Times / Telegrapg! Engagement was also announced. It's a births / deaths / marriages thing, we announced family deaths too.

Telegraph even 🤦🏻‍♀️

GrouchyKiwi · 09/05/2023 22:14

No, but my parents did back in my NZ home town.

Hellocatshome · 09/05/2023 22:19

Middlelanehogger · 09/05/2023 22:06

Oh interesting. I was talking to an American friend and she said it was an upper class thing to have your wedding announced in the New York Times. As in they wouldn't just let anyone do it. Maybe they're just particularly snobby I guess.

There announcing in the paper like a small square in the Births, Marriages and Deaths bit at the back for £25 or whatever and then there is a full page spread in The Times etc which does tend to be only super posh/aristocratic type people.

anniewaitsforthelasttime · 09/05/2023 22:22

I'm not at all posh but my parents did put a photo and announcement in the local town paper (back in 2005). I no longer lived or had the wedding in the area. Interestingly, I'm actually not sure they did the same for my sister's 2 years ago, I don't remember being told, maybe it's died out as a tradition. Or maybe she told them not to! I had forgotten about mine until this post. Must ask her!

HeyDemonsItsYaGirl · 09/05/2023 22:23

No because it's not 1947

MillieMollieMandy1 · 09/05/2023 22:30

Yes - the local paper but it was 30 years ago!

Xenia · 09/05/2023 22:32

Yes, mine was in the Times. I announced my daughters' weddings in the Times too (and one in the Telegraph in addition because that was the paper the husband's family read). It is just what we do. Families do all kinds of things that seem weird to others. In the UK there is no restriction on who can pay for the announcement - we do engagements in our family too and also births of children. It is a nice thing to do.

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Middlelanehogger · 09/05/2023 22:42

I think it's quite charming. I'd like to do it. Just the few lines ones, not the full page spread.

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EversoDisorganised · 09/05/2023 22:48

We didn't, but I'm a very private person and would have hated it. I do still glance through them in the local paper though.

MrsMoastyToasty · 09/05/2023 22:52

I was once told by someone rather posh that a lady should only appear in the press on 3 occasions- her birth, her marriage and her death.