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Who to send Wedding Announcements to?

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I''m not sure what the proper etiquette is for this and wondered if what I''m planning on doing sounds appropriate. Since we''re eloping, I will be sending out formal Wedding Announcements - basically like an invitation but it simply announces our marriage with date, place, etc. I was only planning on sending them to those people that I would have invited, had I had an actual wedding & reception (close friends, close family, family friends I''ve known for years, etc.). Does that sounds about right? For example, I have step siblings that I''ve met exactly once (they''ve been my step siblings for about 5 years only), we dont keep in touch and have no real relationship other than me hearing the occasional thing about them via my father''s wife. I have nothing against them but I wouldn''t invite them to my wedding if I''d had one since it would have been only people I know well, and a smaller group, at that. Is this permissible? I really have no contact with these people and they also have had children while we''ve been step-related and I do not receive baby announcements from them. And we do not exchange cards for any occasions, etc. I''m at a loss with the step-relative thing mainly because I do not in any way want them to feel obligated to feel they should send a card or gift and I feel like they might think that if suddenly I send them a wedding announcement. Thoughts?
 
I''m not sure. A coworker of mine got married this past year. It was local, but I was not invited to the wedding (she was mormon, and so non-mormons I guess aren''t invited). But she did send annonucements to me and our whole team. Our team did chip in to buy her a gift.

Also, in college I got an annoucement from a wedding I wasn''t invited to (some mutual friends were invited, but I wasn''t quite as close with the couple) but in that case I didn''t feel obligated to send a gift. I thought it was nice though...it came with a cute engagement photo of them.

Hope this helps...
 
I''d probably send announcements to people who I wanted to be aware that I had gotten married. That sentence sounds awkward to me but hopefully it reads okay. It doesn''t mean that you''d be asking for gifts. It just means that you want them to know you''re now married. For example my dad has a cousin with 9 children. My sister and I grew up going to her children''s weddings, although we didn''t know them well at all. In fact, on the car ride down to the state where they live, we''d have to practice all of their names to make sure we knew them by the time we arrived. I don''t know my dad''s cousin anymore, nor do I know her children. They''re not part of my life anymore. I''d most likely send an announcement to my dad''s cousin and ask that she tell her family (unless I felt the need to send announcements to her kids too).
 
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