Graduation Verses
Graduation verses are there to serve you and help you create the best wording in all your graduation stationery. If you sit down to think about what you want to say in say your graduation invitations you may find that the list of things you want to cover is far too long. Alternatively you may find that you just end up telling guests there is a graduation party. None of these approaches is correct. You do need to be correct and give the details people need but you do also need to mark the outstanding occasion of your child’s graduation with meaningful wording if you can. Clearly the type of wording you use should fit in with what you would almost normally use. There is little point in flowery, over the top language if you are a no nonsense type of family who talk straight all the time. You just need to find the words that express what you want to say and how you want to say it. Given the list of graduation stationery such as invites, announcements and thank you cards, you might well think that you cannot possibly create the graduation verses yourself and do really need help. That is probably the right idea as when you see the freely available graduation verses online you will probably note just how efficiently they use simple language to say in a few words the most powerful message about graduation. They seem able to create a sense of occasion and even of the emotion that is attached to it in just a few words. Many have been written by professional card verse writers who have spent many years creating a craft and it is expressed in the wording you read on any cards you buy.
Given that it is complex to do all these graduation verses you might just want to use the ones that come with the graduation stationery you order. If you look long and hard you are likely to find wording that fits just perfectly with your ideas of what you would like to say. One great thing to do is find freely available wording that is quite close to what you want to say and later it to reflect your own graduate and your own feelings about the graduation. This may take a bit of time but you will be successful with it.
The alternative is to really get to work on writing your own graduation verses. There are a few to cover and you have different angles from which to approach each. For graduation announcements you are trying to give everyone a sense of the graduate’s achievements but also mark the occasion by also giving a sense of the love and pride you have in the graduate. You may also have other important things to add that were key things for the graduate such as overcoming extreme difficulty. Similarly for the graduation invites however here you must also give everyone the date, time, venue and RSVP details. For thank you cards there is a different approach. You may have, for example, been totally humbled by the gifts you have received. The great thing if you can do it is you get to express the real emotions involved in the occasion and make the whole thing a very personal graduation party, for example.
Take a chance and at least try to create your own graduation verses.
