I’m working on my sons graduation party invitations - his friends will get a facebook invite so these are for mostly our friends and family. He’s graduating with honors from high school - should the invitation say “Graduating with honors from XXX high school” or just “graduating from XXX high school”
Depends on how far flung the invites go. Usually it’s the graduation announcement that mentions “with honors”.
I assume the party is for close family and friends, who probably already know how good a student he is. I think “graduating with honors” is a bit much. Now, if he were graduating from college with some distinctive honor I think it might be worth mentioning.
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I vote for eliminating the ‘with honors’. It’s too ‘braggy’ for my taste.
Thanks - I didn’t think of adding that until the invitation I liked had that wording on as an example - it got me to thinking there may be a right and wrong way, but he’s not a braggy kid so we won’t do a braggy invite. I appreciate your feedback!
Graduation announcements can get pretty braggy…just not the party invite.
I vote for a party invite without mention of grades, honors,etc.
The party invitations should say nothing about honors: definitely no bragging! 
I vote for not sending announcements, except possibly to grandparents or others equally close who might get a kick out of them. But we’ve talked about this before…there are people on both sides of the divide.
These days we have been getting evites for most occasions. Just mention of his graduation from high school (without mentioning honors) should be fine.
No one cares that he is graduating “with honors” (which is pretty nebulous and meaningless, really). The people who are close enough to care about his accomplishments…already know…and are adequately proud of him.
Do you really want to risk (silent thought) ‘Ok, Mr. Braggy-pants…50 fewer bucks in your card cause your honors are so impressive you don’t need any help!’ LOL. Just joking…but there’s a grain of truth there…people give more to a kid who is humble.
Ultimately, it probably makes no difference…because people do kinda…understand…how gaga parents get over their kid’s accomplishments.
But yeah, your kid will be less embarrassed if you go the minimalist route.
We didn’t send announcements for any of our kids graduations, tho did invite some to a party. We never mentioned anything about honors and I think that is braggy.
We will be using the announcements for out of town family members and will include DS’s senior photos. No party ideas so far. Maybe family dinner out or host his friends.