<p>We are ordering graduation invitations. While I know most of our out of town relatives cannot come, I do want them to know D is graduating and what schools she got into. Not really desiring any presents either.</p>
<p>Do you have any advice about an insert that says what schools your child was accepted to and what their choice is?</p>
<p>This is not something we ever felt the need to tell people in this way. People who were close enough to us to actually know our kids and care about their future path, were well aware when they were graduating. We didn’t broadcast every school to which our kids were accepted. We didn’t feel this was anyone’s business, nor did we feel that most people would be interested. If it came up in the course of casual conversation then we felt fine sharing it but actually publishing it in some way? I actually don’t know anyone who did this. Maybe this is one of those regional things. I don’t know, do people really do this?</p>
<p>Just a personal opinion, if you want to include something I would state “Jane is very excited to begin her college career at university XYZ in the fall.” or something similar. Although you will be very proud of everywhere she was admitted, by including this information you may be inviting questions of “Why did she choose university XYZ? College ABC is so much better!”, or even more invasive “Wasn’t she accepted to University LMN?”. Celebrate and validate the decision she has made.</p>
<p>I agree on omitting the “where accepted” info from an invitation or announcement. Could appear rather pretentious.</p>
<p>Instead, I like to see a reference to the school a grad will attend in the thank you note. It adds a real bit of news to notes that might otherwise be somewhat generic. </p>
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<p>We mentioned our D’s HS graduation and college matriculation in our holiday greetings the following winter. Mailed ceremony invites to only those people we knew could attend.</p>
<p>We are bypassing the “official” graduation announcement from Josten’s because it is so expensive and our son didn’t like the design. We have enough graphic design and marketing ability within the family to do our own. We will have one version for out-of-town friends and another for in-town that includes an invite to our open house. It will be up to our son to decide if he wants to include where he is headed next fall. Our older son opted to hang a flag from his colleg at our front door for his open house, while our decorations were in the high school colors.</p>
<p>I used Shutterfly to create a photo card to send to people. I used a college of 3 of my fav photos from his senior year, and then in the text part I put his HS graduation info (high school, date) and the university he would be attending in the fall.</p>
<p>That’s a great idea!
I agree that the only school that matters is the one they choose to attend in the fall.</p>
<p>I didn’t like the Josten invites either. I felt they were too expensive for what you actually got. There is a website called photo card chef that has great ideas and we had a relative take one of the sample to a graphic printer here in town and they did an amazing job for about a 1/3 of the cost. I know on their invite/announcement it simply said “Child has chosen to attend University XYZ so please keep in touch at <a href=“mailto:child@university.edu”>child@university.edu</a>” I thought that was a great way to also act as a “calling card” to the students in her class.</p>
<p>Yep, I see your point. We did get the Josten’s invites because it is a private school and the invite is a tradition–it is actually quite beautiful. Mentioning it in the TY note or on the next year’s Xmas card is a great idea.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice! I knew the CC parents would be on the ball :)</p>
<p>When D graduated in June she decided not to do the traditional announcements offered through her school. Instead we did a lovely photo announcement that had information about her hs graduation and the college she was attending. We received positive feedback from many family and friends that received the announcements.</p>
<p>Echoing DougBetsy’s response. I cannot imagine any tasteful way to send out a list of where your kid was accepted. Why would it matter? All that matters is where they actually plan to attend, which can be addressed in a thank-you note - or Grcxx3’s announcement sounds lovely!</p>
<p>How about the following:
“<we i=”" all=“” of=“” us=“” name=“”> cordially invite you to join us in celebrating <adjectives> occasion in <child>'s life as <he she=“”> graduates from <hs name=“”> and matriculates to <college name=“”> over <list of=“” all=“” the=“” colleges=“” child=“” got=“” accepted=“” but=“” not=“” joining=“”>."</list></college></hs></he></child></adjectives></we></p>
<p>I did buy the smallest number of invitations for D1 last year and plan to do the same this year; I know others who did their own and saved money but our school places a lot of importance on tradition and formalities and since there are only 40 grads in each class it felt unsupportive of the school culture to opt out and do a computer generated flier.</p>
<p>I made no mention of school choice - everyone knew anyway - and where she could have gone didn’t matter, not the time or place for that discussion.</p>