Does anyone understand why people still announce their engagements or the birth of their children in the national newspapers. I could understand it years ago when people didn't have phones, internet, texting etc but it just seems a bit pointless now. Surely anyone who's really interested will hear very quickly on the grapevine so you're only really making the announcement to total strangers.
I can understand it with deaths as a huge number of people have to be informed very quickly of the funeral arrangements and the family are often in no state to do this or wouldn't even necessarily know all of the people who would like to be informed.
I can understand it with deaths as a huge number of people have to be informed very quickly of the funeral arrangements and the family are often in no state to do this or wouldn't even necessarily know all of the people who would like to be informed.