Graduation announcement

[bokelley]

The school just sent me info on ordering graduation announcements. Is this something you do normally? Also who all do you send them too?

[madeintaiwan]

DH's school gave us 25 announcements for free. So I picked 25 people and included an enclosure [that I printed on nice card stock] that read:

As he is conferred the degree
of Doctor of Medicine
DH
thanks you for your
love, support, and prayers

In the end, I had to make a few more generic announcements to send to some of DH's maternal grandmother's relatives. I sent the original 25 to "immediate" family like my parents, his parents, our grandparents, my aunt and uncle, his mom's brothers, and cousins who were invited to the graduation. I don't think I would have bothered to spend money on them.

[diggitydot]

We didn't see any reason to send announcements to people who already knew that he was graduating.

[v-girl]

We didn't do announcements.

[L.Jane]

We invited those who we wanted to come to the graduation with the limited amount of tickets we had and then like diggity said, everyone knew he was graduating. I don't know what the "proper" thing to do is, but we felt sending out announcements was just asking people for gifts.

[SuzySunshine]

I think we sent a handful to immediate family and his aunts/uncles.

[MrsK]

We didn't send any announcements.

[GreyhoundsRUs]

DH "got" 25 from his school - but he never picked them up He wasn't supported at all by my family, and his family is very small - so they all personally got a call to thank them (besides his parents - everyone is too old to have traveled for the ceremony anyway!)

[DCJenn]

I can't remember how many he got but they were really formal and very pretty- of course it wasn't 'just' a medical school graduation, it was also a ceremony to promote them to the next rank. It was all very military and red, white and blue. They graduate the military people and the members of the Public Health Service. The Navy band played, it was at Constitution Hall in DC, all of the military medicine big wigs came. The Army Surgeon General was the speaker as I recall. HUGE deal in other words. We sent invitations to his sisters, his mother and my family members. Of course, they were already coming because we got married the next day in my parents living room. Which was definitely not as solemn of an occasion as the graduation- although he wore his dress blues for both!)

J

[OrionGrad]

I think DH got some type of graduation invitation/announcement for free from his school, so we just sent them out to immediate family who were already coming to graduation. I thought they might like to have the invitation as a little memento or something. I resisted the urge to print up actual announcements for fear that people would think we were just asking for money.

[MDPhDWife]

DH's school is providing something like 20 which we'll send out, but I really hope people don't think we're trying to solicit cash. Any ideas on how to avoid that?

[Pollyanna]

We didn't do announcements med school but we did make cool ones for his PhD and mailed them out in test tubes. Kinda hard to top that for med school

[Auspicious]

We didn't do announcements med school but we did make cool ones for his PhD and mailed them out in test tubes. Kinda hard to top that for med school

Each announcement wrapped around a speculum.

(Someone had to say it.)

[Pollyanna]

That is hilarious!! Okay, new plan for the end of fellowship.

[HouseofWool]

That is great for an OB!