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It's been a while since our eldest graduated, and we have two more graduating this spring. I've gotten the usual solicitations to order announcements, pictures, diploma frames, etc, but it made me wonder if there are costs involved beyond that, as I don't remember any the last time. Cap and gown, tickets, etc?
Cap and Gown
Tickets beyond 5 (5 tickets were free, additional tickets cost, although we usually just traded with students who didn't need all 5 tickets)
Announcements
Pictures (Pictures at graduation and pictures for the school year book were separate, and both cost)
We probably spent somewhere around $150.
For grad school, which I am doing part time, the school also charges a commencement fee, although I believe that is included in tuition for full time students.
Tickets were free at my university, but you had to pay for the cap and gown. We got a handful of announcements (mostly for far away relatives) and no pictures.
For some (including my family), the big expense was actually attending graduation and then moving me and my stuff back home. Since I went to college 1000 miles away and did not graduate with a job offer, it made the most sense to go back to where I was from to job search in the lower cost of living area. Luckily, I didn't have any furniture but yhad accumulated a LOT of stuff after 4 years away!
I paid my diploma fee, whatever it was, maybe $25. I didn't walk so no cap and gown. No walk, no announcements. Nobody would have gone to see me graduate anyway so no tickets.
Our college grads went to private colleges. One college charged nothing for cap and gown rental and for both, tickets were free but limited to 6 per family. We didn't buy announcements, pictures or frames. We took our own pictures, neither wanted their degrees framed and we did our own announcements to just family.
Although it wasn't "free," our cap and gown was rolled in and listed with costs payed with tuition etc. at the beginning of the semester. Consequently, there weren't fees associated with it that weren't taken care of.
Our college grads went to private colleges. One college charged nothing for cap and gown rental and for both, tickets were free but limited to 6 per family. We didn't buy announcements, pictures or frames. We took our own pictures, neither wanted their degrees framed and we did our own announcements to just family.
Similar here. Cap and Gown were free, as were tickets but a limit to 6 or so.
I didn't do announcements as I didn't really want the attention. My parents and siblings attended. I didn't even want a party afterwards. It's been 10 years and my engineering degree is still sitting in the envelope they gave it to me in. I should probably get around to framing it one of these days.
In fact...that's what I'm gonna do this weekend
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