<p>While we do have many relatives in US and Canada, they are all at least 400 miles away. I dont remember ever attending any HS graduations of other relatives. </p>
<p>DDs HS prints out very nice graduation invitations. Should we send them out at all?</p>
<p>I don't think invites necssarily go to those who you think will really make the ceremony. I'd invite those who are "emotionally" closest, not physically closest.</p>
<p>Our high school prints what are really anouncements, not invitations. There is limited seating where the graduation is held. We are on kid no. 3 and what we have done before is send the anouncements to our relatives and close friends, basically the same people who send them to us for their children.</p>
<p>This is something that varies a good deal depending on your region. I grew up with graduation invitations (in the south), but where we live now (northeast), it just isn't done much.* Unfortunately this led to a lot of miffy feelings and misunderstandings among the southern relatives, who thought we simply had excluded them from the invitation list for D's graduation. Ugh.</p>
<p>Anyway, yes, I'd go with emotionally closest.</p>
<p>okay - in **this* little corner of the ne, anyway, it isn't done much. :)</p>
<p>We have the same situation here, DadII. I don't expect any relatives to travel for a h.s. graduation, nor would I go to theirs. We travel for many other occasions together.</p>
<p>Each graduate is given the same number of invitations by the school. Sometimes the seating is limited, especially if it's indoors or becomes a rain situation, so invitations are a hot commodity this time of year.</p>
<p>Other families with many relatives who live in the community often wish they had more invitations.</p>
<p>What we do is first ask our kids to ask a friend with many local relatives if that friend would like more invitations, then give them to that friend.</p>
<p>If no takers, we hand them back to the school Guidance Counselor with a gracious note to please use them for other families who need them, because our relatives live too far. That shows we value the invitations. </p>
<p>If it's an "announcement" not an "invitation," we toss them out. We don't send them to relatives because we feel like it's a request for a present when everyone in family knows they cannot attend. Our family announces such things like that by email these days, anyway, along with word of what everyone's summer and college plans are all about, just buried in the informal family news.</p>
<p>We've never scalped an invitation however ;) although I think we could pay for a few college textbooks that way.</p>