2017 Senior Package ?'s

[dreamin_disney]

Looking at package and trying to figure out what to get. There are packages with announcements, photo card bundle with foil border name cards, announcements inserts(?)m envelope seals, address labels, Thank you cards, Senior pullover hoodie, 2 pk shirts, tassel, key ring and cap n gown

buy ring (around $300)and get free cap n gown

There' also buy everything indivual

Whats the norm to send out to family? Whats the difference between Official School Announcement vs. official announcement?

My daughters school only hands our 6 graduation tickets

The announcements give the info on graduation and time so would people think they are invited to the ceremony? Only 6 tickets are given so if that's the case I was just going to include grad party info.

Would like some info on what everyone is doing. Are you buying through the school Jostens or other company? When I graduated I didn't ask for any of this or senior pictures. My mom was a single parent and I didn't want to bother her with it. For my daughter she's worked so hard and we can afford it so want to do this TIA!

 

[powellrj]

What most people around here do anymore is have a picture card with party info. We haven't gotten an announcement in years. Our school ordered class rings Freshman year. We just bought the cap and gown and DD bought an extra tassel for her car.

 

[robinb]

Oh god. One more thing to do. *sigh*

 

[dreamin_disney]

DD is an only child so this is all new to us. I like the idea of the photo cards but I like the nice 2017 announcement as a keepsake for us. I was thinking of just giving those to DD's aunts and uncles, grandparents and one us and one for her. Does it announce her graduating or the announcing the graduation date invite ceremony?

 

[v.t.]

I have received both the formal invitation and photo cards in the past few years. My twins graduate this year and I am doing a nice, tri-fold photo card that has the graduation ceremony information, since graduation is at the stadium and anyone can attend. I am going to do my best to order those at Thanksgiving when they have all the photo card specials. I am not planning on a party, so I will not have to do invitations for that. We will order cap and gown but that is all, no class ring. I think that is all the Jostens purchases we will have. We can't decide if we want to do a senior ad in the yearbook or not.
I am taking their senior pictures myself and the art teacher is going to do all the photo shopping for me, she is very good and can cover up my mistakes. LOL

 

[kymom99]

My son is a senior too. I'm not sure what we are going to do yet. I have seen both formal announcements and personally made ones too. Getting an announcement does not usually mean you are invited to the ceremony but if you are worried, enclose a note saying admission is by ticket only. I think you have to buy them in rather large sets so to get them for just the few people you mentioned would leave you with a lot of extras. I would send them out to everyone if you are going to buy them along with a wallet size senior photo.
We had the opportunity to purchase a ring a couple years ago but we didn't get one for our son. He has 2 championship cross country rings we had to buy.

 

[mjkacmom]

For our graduates, we bought the yearbook, and a 5 x 7 senior photo $65 each). Each family gets 6 tickets (only 2 can be used if it rains), and posted a picture on Facebook. I can't remember the last time I received an announcement in the mail.

 

[Anesthesia Fine]

My family's big on pictures, so we'll probably order some kind of photo package that will make all the grandparents happy. I think she wants a yearbook this year. Other than that, they don't do the cap and gown, so I'll have to buy her a white dress at some point...and then see what other madness they have in store for us this year. I don't remember receiving announcements this early for my own high school graduation, but that was a long time ago (longer now than it seems, in a place that perhaps you've seen in your dreams. ha.).

 

[Kae]

DD is an only child so this is all new to us. I like the idea of the photo cards but I like the nice 2017 announcement as a keepsake for us. I was thinking of just giving those to DD's aunts and uncles, grandparents and one us and one for her. Does it announce her graduating or the announcing the graduation date invite ceremony?

that what I did only ordered 25 of the official ones. Used Zazzle.com for the other stuff.

kae

 

[MomToOne]

In the past few years, I've received announcements for my nephew's graduation, as well as his two cousins (not my relatives, it's an odd relationship that's not necessary to explain here, let's just say they are family friends). My nephew's may technically been an invitation, but since I live cross country and DD was still in school they knew I wouldn't show. LOL

My nephew and his cousins all attended private schools so maybe doing them was just traditional for those schools, or maybe whether or not people still do them varies based on the area of the country?

I haven't decided whether or not to do them for DD when she graduates next year, and if I do do them, whether I would order them via the school or just make them up myself. I suspect I will do something myself that can just be sent to family and a few friends. The few people we might actually invite to the ceremony I will handle some other way - probably via phone calls. I doubt we'll have a party since none of our family lives anywhere close to us. We'll just go out for a nice dinner somewhere with whoever comes to the ceremony either the day of or the day before.

Other than that, I plan to pay for yearbook (but I pay for that every year), cap and gown and a basic set of senior pictures - that's about it. Maybe a diploma cover if the school doesn't provide that. If she wants a ring (a waste of money in my book), DD will have to pay for that herself or get a certain extended family member who she has wrapped around her finger to get it for her as a Christmas or birthday present - but I suspect she'll pass on it. The really big debate is going to be over the Senior Trip in our house - I may give her part of that as her graduation present, but expect her to contribute some towards it as well.

 

[rigs32]

You don't have to buy all that stuff through the school. You can save a LOT of money by doing your own senior photos and making/ordering announcements on your own.

 

[aprilgail]

Looking at package and trying to figure out what to get. There are packages with announcements, photo card bundle with foil border name cards, announcements inserts(?)m envelope seals, address labels, Thank you cards, Senior pullover hoodie, 2 pk shirts, tassel, key ring and cap n gown

buy ring (around $300)and get free cap n gown

There' also buy everything indivual

Whats the norm to send out to family? Whats the difference between Official School Announcement vs. official announcement?

My daughters school only hands our 6 graduation tickets

The announcements give the info on graduation and time so would people think they are invited to the ceremony? Only 6 tickets are given so if that's the case I was just going to include grad party info.

Would like some info on what everyone is doing. Are you buying through the school Jostens or other company? When I graduated I didn't ask for any of this or senior pictures. My mom was a single parent and I didn't want to bother her with it. For my daughter she's worked so hard and we can afford it so want to do this TIA!

We ordered out ring and out it in 10th grade
None of the photo package options here even include announcement, I honestly don't know anyone who has sent them out and when they come from other states that do them the first thought is "oh they are looking for a gift". We ordered the middle package for pictures and that was $400.00. We have gotten plenty of friends and relatives sending just a grad pic, no announcement.
If it rains each graduate gets TWO tickets for graduation since it has to be inside- if its nice out there is no limit. Always becomes a problem because some of the moms that get the tickets home and they give the second ticket to step dad or grandma instead of giving it to the father so that always becomes an issue.

 

[ceecee]

Walmart makes nice photo party invitations. I got a lot of those and hardly any announcements from DD's friends. I did send announcements for DD to the family, we had a family party at Disney since a lot of our family live near by. We got the matching thank yous. Skipped the tissue inserts but got the name cards. We got the hoodie and sweat pants, they were worn maybe twice! The keychain was cute but broke soon after she started using it. The tassel came at no cost with the cap and gown and the honor roll cord and blood donor cords were free! We got a senior key necklace, the rings they got years before. All in all we got off fairly cheap considering what some people were paying.

 

[Hikergirl]

My dd was a Senior last year. Class rings are done in Junior year, she didn't want one. We ordered enough Senior pics for us, grandparents and aunts and uncles. We purchased her cap and gown. No extras, no announcements. We got 4 tickets and requested 1 extra, those were the only people who needed to know she was graduating.

 

[crisi]

Around here people just do photo cards and a cap and gown. People do Senior pictures - but its a yearbook photo, then a few for grandparents - your friends get selfies . Few people get high school rings. Even grad parties have really fallen by the wayside - at least the big family and your parents friends thing - the kids have two weekends of parties, but Grandma isn't invited.

 

[clh2]

We ordered a single graduation announcement (maybe 2). Look really hard on the order form to find where you can do that Granted DD graduated in 2012, so it was a little while ago.

(We kept 1 as a keepsake, and "if" we did 2, I would have sent it to my parents).

Everyone else got a photo/invitation.

 

[luvsJack]

DD graduated last year. She wanted to spend more money on her prom dress so other stuff had to be cut.

She didn't want a class ring. So that wasn't a necessary expense anyway.

My dil did her senior portraits. She got ideas of poses and props from pinterest. We took them all around the high school campus. They turned out great. Had them printed through walmart.com.

Invitations (no limit of how many to invite), we used her senior portraits to make collage invitations/announcements again at walmart.com. Turned out great and I sent them to anyone/everyone that I might normally give a wallet size picture to. They really liked having those instead. And I was able to add any information about a party to them so two invites in one!

I did order her a tassel from Balfour. She has the cap and tassel from graduation. But I wanted her to have one to put up as well as the one to hang from the car mirror (does that ever go out of style??) The extra tassel was like $15.

And I ordered her yearbook just as I do every year. But I had her name, date of graduation and music notes imprinted on the front. It was like $85.

 

[mjkacmom]

DD graduated last year. She wanted to spend more money on her prom dress so other stuff had to be cut.

She didn't want a class ring. So that wasn't a necessary expense anyway.

My dil did her senior portraits. She got ideas of poses and props from pinterest. We took them all around the high school campus. They turned out great. Had them printed through walmart.com.

Invitations (no limit of how many to invite), we used her senior portraits to make collage invitations/announcements again at walmart.com. Turned out great and I sent them to anyone/everyone that I might normally give a wallet size picture to. They really liked having those instead. And I was able to add any information about a party to them so two invites in one!

I did order her a tassel from Balfour. She has the cap and tassel from graduation. But I wanted her to have one to put up as well as the one to hang from the car mirror (does that ever go out of style??) The extra tassel was like $15.

And I ordered her yearbook just as I do every year. But I had her name, date of graduation and music notes imprinted on the front. It was like $85.

Wow, that's cheap. Ds's yearbook was $110, no add ons, and they went with a cheaper company this year! It was also the first year where underclass men were included (in the history of the school, over 100 years old). Apparently very few were purchased by underclassmen.

 

[luvsJack]

Wow, that's cheap. Ds's yearbook was $110, no add ons, and they went with a cheaper company this year! It was also the first year where underclass men were included (in the history of the school, over 100 years old). Apparently very few were purchased by underclassmen.

Yeah, its cheaper than most of the schools around here. But it is a small high school, maybe 800 students, so not as many pages as some schools would have. The yearbooks are nice though. Lots of color. Every page that is devoted to Seniors is in color.

 

[tvguy]

My kids went to Catholic High School, yearbook and cap and gown cost all built into the tuition.
Neither kid wanted a class ring, neither wanted announcements, and I think we bought the smallest photo package, so not much or a cash outlay.