Greek affiliation in wedding announcements...

[Lil' Hannah]

Originally Posted by Munchkin03

Women want to have the baby first so they can fit into the wedding dress? That's news to me...

Instead of a shotgun wedding while they're pregnant.

The mother's maiden name thing doesn't sound like a great idea with all of the security questions, etc. that use mother's maiden name. I think it's considered PII now.

[LXA SE285]

Originally Posted by Titchou

Greek affiliations in engagement/wedding announcements, obituaries and debutante notices are very common here.

The Birmingham News still lists Greek affiliations and debutante affiliations in engagement announcements. Same for The Times-Picayune in NOLA, which incidentally publishes an entire special section for debutante season (summer through Mardi Gras).

ETA: Something else quaint that The Times-Picayune does is list the mother of the bride's maiden name.

[jolene]

Greek affiliation is very common in announcements in the Southeast. I listed both my hubby's and my affiliation for my hometown newspaper. However, my hubby's hometown paper didn't list it even though I included the info.

[tcsparky]

Here is one from the Dallas paper today that handled it well:

The bride graduated from The Hockaday School in Dallas, Texas. She graduated Magna Cum Laude with an AB in Fine Arts from Harvard University. While at Harvard, Margaret served as captain of the Women's Varsity Golf Team and was an officer in Kappa Alpha Theta. She earned an MFA in architectural history from the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. She is now the director of the Roberts Retail Group at KW Commercial in Tucson.
The groom graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut. He attended the University of Arizona and is now a private real estate investor in Tucson.

[Titchou]

And just to make a timely point, this is from the NOLA Advocate this week:

http://www.theneworleansadvocate.com...sentation-ball

[FSUZeta]

Yay! Pretty, accomplished young women.