Should you share your wedding details via social media? Is it proper etiquette? Here's the thing, a wedding is a sacred, serious life changing ceremony for grown ups - its not something done in 140 characters or less. Yes, the planning is exciting, you want to tell the world you're getting married, but should you really? We agree that its great to share the news of your engagement, but caution should be exercised. What if everyone you want to share the news with is not as technologically savvy or they don't FB or Tweet and are surprised they didn't here the news from you via phone or snail mail? There will no doubt be some hurt feelings and even some simmering anger. Re-consider tweeting or posting to Facebook regardless of it being the 21st century way to communicate. No, your family and friends don't have to "work with it" because its your wedding. Honestly, its impersonal announcing this kind of event via the Internet. Sending an Evite, Facebook message or Tweet to invite people to your engagement party or other wedding related event - says a couple of things about how you and your fiancee are approaching this life change:
1. You're too busy to even take time to send actual paper invitations or announcements: Note, this does not mean you're being Green!
2. You have no budget to do this the "right" code for the old school way (hint - this is a perception by your guests of the actual wedding to come).
3. Your style is 140 characters long - you don't have longer than that to do things that will be memorable for you and your guests
4. You're in love with the idea of the wedding planning and you could care less about the etiquette of it what it says about you as a couple.
Blogging is different and we understand that keeping an online journal can be helpful for sharing details with those who may not be able to attend the wedding for whatever reason, but even blogging should have limits. We want to hear what you think - write us and let us know.
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