Did you announce your wedding in the paper?

[Middlelanehogger]

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)?

My nan did this too.

Weekly paper and she would open it and say "who's died this week then"

No, but my MIL did. She also put in a birth notice for my children. Didn't ask if we were happy with that.

I didn't but anyone can, it's about £100 I heard.

Dc was in recently for another reason, something you keep!

Still fairly common (as in it often happens, not as in common as muck) in our local paper - may or may not be an Irish thing. Birth notices are much less common now than they used to be. You still see the odd graduation too although those are becoming quite rare.

A good few years ago now my mum's friend, who has very Hyacinth Bucket tendencies, put a wedding announcement in the local paper for her daughter and included the couple's degree designatory letters. "Miss Mary Smith BA (Hons) married Mr Brian Jones BSc (Hons) in a lovely ceremony". I would have been mortified.

My parents posted for my first wedding in The Times and a local paper. There used to be pages of announcements. People just change their Facebook status these days!

its just asking to have someone come and crash the ceremony very attention seeking

The announcement is retrospective.

Yes but that was 20 years ago. If that makes a difference.

I have drafted a standard formal engagement announcement for the Times, and their charge to publish will be £232.

I tried to get ours in the New York Times, but we probably weren’t posh enough. 😂

Ha ha ha! No

Ah the hatchlings, matchings and despatchings columns. No we didn’t but DH announced his Fathers death in The Times becuse he was the kind of fellow who would have wanted that.

NYT is a different method to the Times. With the Times you just pay for a short 3 line announcement or enter a submission for the longer 1page feature.

NYT you can do vows or mini vows and they like to highlight couples who have made a contribution to wider society, overcome adversity or are a couple from two different cultures and having a wedding that recognises that. I absolutely love the NYT wedding section. It’s fabulous reading.

The first one in the local rag yes, but it was in the 1980's and people did in those days.

Yes times and telegraph. All 4 dcs births as well. It mattered to my fil.

My parents announced my engagement in our local newspaper, back in 2007! Anyone can make an announcement in a newspaper, national or local. You don't need to be 'posh' or 'rich'!! I'm neither!! 😂

Yes, The Times and for my children's engagements etc, births, even today. I even have found very old ones from the 1840s of ancestors.