Fluff: Wedding Announcements in Newspapers?

oh good heavens!

But yes, when I was growing up in the 60s and 70s, weddings were always in the paper.

Our engagement and wedding was in the newspaper back in 1990. It was pretty normal back then, but by self submission.

Could they drop anymore names if people nobody knows?!?! That was tacky as hell.

Name dropping is why it was in the paper. They both work in hospitality.

Wow that's a lot of information. My kids' birth announcements were both in the paper, 19 and 21 years ago. It hasn't been a thing for awhile now, birth or wedding. Sometimes there is anniversaries, if it's been 50+ years. Or a birthday over 75 if there is an open house. Obituaries are still in the paper.

My MIL wanted to put one in the paper back in 1997 but I thought that was a bit cheesy so no announcement for my wedding!

we only have obits.. unless you want to pay.. you can put anything in as an ad. obits are expensive too

Sounds like a giant brag. 

I think it’s odd they mention who hosted the wedding.
I used to love to read the NYTimes wedding announcements.

I had a NYT wedding announcement and it definitely didn't read anything like that! I think sometimes the featured wedding of the week will go into a bunch of detail, but I still don't think they are describing the bridesmaid dresses or anything, and mine was maybe 1/3 as long as that, if even that long.

I used to always read the ones in the Times, but I stopped when I got past the age when I knew people who were at the normal getting-married ages. I don't know if the local paper here does them -- I only subscribe online.

Nah - the NYT's ones aren't that obnoxious. 

This one is so pathetic. It makes you hate them and not want to be them haha. 

My grandfather wrote these things for the newspaper for many years and this kind of information was common. Someone in the family has an old fashioned announcement style. My grandfather even put his own marriage in 1933 on the front page!

I kind of like it really. I love all the details and love when I find info like this doing ancestry searches. Interestingly there is almost no info about the bride's family and friends.

All of these used to be free of charge. Now newspapers charge by the word.

It’s odd because “traditionally” the bride’s family hosts, but in this case it seems as if the whole thing is all about the groom’s family (who no doubt paid for the announcement along with everything else). And being the obvious social climbers they all are they want everybody to know exactly who backed the whole shindig. 🙄 It feels like the bride is almost an afterthought. How embarrassing to be her, I would have been mortified if my in-laws would have published something like that.

IMO these days it seems that articles like this are the stuff of small town, local papers. We don’t see too much of that anymore in the bigger city papers here.