I don’t believe it is necessary to get personalized thank you cards for the engagement gifts. A basic card is more than adequate. In light of this, I just found an awesome source for Christian Thank You cards for all of those engagement gifts you get! The company is called DaySpring. They’re the Christian division [...]
Engagement Announcement Etiquette
There are three ways to announce your engagement. Informal announcing is when you tell everybody and his brother that the man of your dreams just proposed and you said yes! Formal announcing comes in two forms – newspaper announcements and mailed announcements. For information on newspaper announcements, click here.
Engagement Newspaper Announcements
Traditionally, newspaper announcements are used to tell the world of your upcoming wedding. Because of this, if you’re having a small wedding, skip the newspaper because you may offend a lot of people who don’t get invited to your wedding. Announce the engagement in your local newspaper and/or the newspapers in the towns you and [...]
To Engagement Party or Not to Engagement Party…That Is the Question
I know, I know, it’s a cheesy cliché. I just couldn’t resist. I am a fan of cheesy clichés. And puns. But, that’s for another post. Anyway, whether or not to have an engagement party depends on several things. From an etiquette perspective, an engagement party is optional. There are a few reasons to have [...]
Four Principles for Announcing Your Engagement
I am the most blessed woman on the face of the earth. That’s what I was thinking after Dave left the night he proposed. It doesn’t sound like the most romantic proposal but to me, it was. I was recuperating from surgery and lying on my couch feeling lousy when he came over, got down [...]
