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.
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 your [...]
If you are undecided whether to have an engagement photo taken, I strongly encourage you to do so. Your engagement photo is record of an important memory. I realize the wedding day is THE event but it began with the engagement. Below are some helpful hints and tips for your engagement photo.
So you’ve decided to have an engagement party. Here are some helpful tips and etiquette how-to’s to guide your party.
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 one [...]
I was so excited to tell everyone that I was marrying the man of my dreams. But, I had to keep my excitement in check to do it right. This was one of those times I was so thankful for my Christian growth that I was not led by my feelings, but by God’s spirit [...]
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 [...]