To parents who sent out high school graduation invites:

I’m having my graduation party in April and graduation in May. My mom had two cards made, one for the party and the other for the physical graduation. She is planning to send both cards to everyone even though everyone is not invited…

Everyone is invited to my party, but only 4 family members are invited to the physical graduation. The graduation card says where my graduation is and where it is. She says this is a common tradition to send out a graduation card to even those not invited which just confuses me…

She says she’ll tell everyone at the party that they’re the card is just an acknowledgement of my graduation which seems odd since they’re already at my GRADUATION party…

Can those of you who sent out invites tell me if this is normal? I don’t want people mistakenly showing up at my graduation lol.

Thanks

If you don’t want to invite someone, you send an announcement of the graduation, not an invitation. She’s going to be very sorry when she has to tell people they CAN’T COME.

We sent out graduation announcements (they had the date and name of high school on the card but not the time of the graduation) to everyone and separate cards for the two parties we had. It was a common thing to send out announcements to everyone but my friend told me ours was the only one she received last year and she knew a lot of kids that were graduating.

Agree with @twoinanddone. I don’t really understand why she would be doing it the other way.

@Jpgranier is the card for the actual graduation an invitation to the graduation itself or is it an announcement that you are graduating?

Announcements are OK, but I would NOT send an invitation to the ceremony to anyone who is not actually invited.

I’m not sure the difference between announcement and invitation.

The exact card reads like this:

The Faculty, Administration, and students at “My school”
Celebrate the Graduation of “My name”

“The date of the graduation”

“The name of the hotel and address”

Reception to follow

I find it very confusing, and if I were to receive the letter, I would think I’m being invited to attend.

Yes, if it gives the name of the hotel and the time, etc and says “reception to follow” it sounds like you are inviting them. An announcement would just have your name, the schools name and the date and wouldn’t mention a reception.

Thanks for the help! She’s still determined to send out, so I’ll let y’all know how many people show up “uninvited” in May :))

At our school…we onkynreceived the number of invitations that we could get tickets for. We could order announcements.

To be honest, why can’t the in itation to the party read “join us in celebrating JP’s graduation at a gathering at our home on April whatwver the date is”.

No need to include anything else.