Do The People i Send My Engagement Photos To Also Have To Be Invited To Our Wedding?

I’ve actually never heard of sending engagement photos? Maybe it’s a cultural thing, if so, disregard the following. Who do you even send them to lol do people put them in their wallet or hang them on their fridge? I am just curious, why do you think someone wants a picture of you two? Maybe grandma & grandpa and parents, but can’t imagine anyone else wanting one.

View Quoted Comment Hi Alli! It’s no problem. It could be a cultural thing, not too sure however. If it helps, I’m an AA from BK, NY. Before we booked our picture day, we knew we wanted to send pics out to close family and friends just to include them in our celebration, notwithstanding the other pre wedding & activity’s to follow. While the pics are mainly for us (we wanted to make a photo album for our future home and include some engagement pics), our friends and family definitely wanted pics as well.

I’ve never heard of giving out engagement photos, with the exception of parents. Typically they are for the couple or for an announcement in a paper; and some couples use them for their STDs. I couldn’t imagine sending others our photos, and definitely not to anyone I wasn’t close enough to to invite to my wedding.

View Quoted Comment Oh okay!! Honestly, I would send them to whoever you think would want them. I am also not super traditional or up on wedding etiquette for engagement photos. Our save the date post card had our favorite engagement photo on it the front with all details on the back.
Best wishes!! 🤍

Traditionally an e gagement picture can be given to anyone who might be interested, including the local paper, with no expectations. Whoever you sent school graduation pics to. The engagement party is different. If you get engaged expecting around a year, 15 months to the wedding, then party guests should be those who will be invited to the wedding. But if you have a party to celebrate a nw engagement where it will be 2,4,6 whatever years, then the newly engaged announcement party can include anyone. Who knows where you will live or who you will invite, that far in advance? But if like many you have a party when first engaged, years out, thenhave a party 9-12 months before the wedding when you are actively planning, choosing a wedding party, have a guest list, then this engagement party is limited to guest list people only. 🙂 Sharing a photo, or sending a wedding announcement, or something years in advance, no strings. But a dinner or party near the wedding, or details about the wedding on a website, only those going to the wedding.

It used to be traditional to include engagement pics in the wedding invites. Some people don't do that anymore? But you can send them to anyone you want. There's no etiquette attached to them.

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View Quoted Comment Thanks Michelle!

I did things differently and sent our engagement photos out physically in the mail to several family and friends. I plan on having a microscopic wedding with only 3 guests.

I've never heard of sending engagement photos and would probably just skip it. If I did receive a wedding photo in the mail, however, I would also expect an invitation.

I would only send them to parents, grandparents & close family. Not everyone needs one. I’ve never heard of sending engagement pics to everyone you invite. Only etiquette I’ve heard of is whoever you send a STD gets an invitation.

I've never heard of that. Send them to whoever you want to have a picture!

I would find it strange to receive an engagement picture from a couple I'm not close enough to, to be invited to their wedding.

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This is the bottom line for me. That said, I didn't send out engagement pictures (ok, I didn't have them taken, either) and I have never received one from anyone. The only pictures I receive these days are niece and nephew school pics.

I am not sure why you would send your engagement photos to anyone. Typically, the only time engagement photos are physically sent to someone is if they are included on your save the dates. You can post them on your social media or send to your family, but I don't see the need to just send engagement photos to anyone.

View Quoted Comment Until this recent all computer wedding generation, most people in small towns and burbs , and may in cities sent their engagement pics in to their local hometown newspaper, and the one where they were living, and groom's parents paper, and groom's. Many churches put engagement pictures of just the woman, or the couple, in the church bulletin. People did not have save the dates. or cell phones. And women's and sometimes men's families were given engagement photos. Often the last relatives had before that was their school graduation picture. The tradition has not changed everywhere. Fewer home town papers even exist. But lots of families still send a bride's engagement photos to everyone's relatives and to family friends who saw you grow up.

Im struggling with this as well! I put my engagement photos on my Save the Dates, and I want my family to have photos of us, but I also am not planning on actually INVITING all of them. I find it strange that so many people think it’s weird to send pics to their family. We have photos of EVERYBODY for all occasions in my family😂

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It's not weird to send regular photos to a family member for whatever reason. What is inappropriate is sending what is essentially an engagement announcement to someone you don't plan to invite to the wedding. Don't do that.

View Quoted Comment 100 percent. And it’s mostly my mom saying I need to send this person and that person photos (like aunts and uncles that I haven’t seen or talked to in years😐🙄)