Announcing Your Engagement

Congratulations, you’re getting married! Now do you go about announcing your engagement? Did you know that there is an actual announcement engagement etiquette that you should take into account? Announcing your engagement takes some forethought and planning so that both family and friends are just as excited as you about your big day.

Announcement Engagement Rules

If you are single and unencumbered, the first people you should tell are your parents. If the family dynamic is close, the people who raised you should definitely be the first to know. How do you think they would feel if they heard your engagement announcement from someone else first?

Next in line for announcing your engagement are other close family members followed by close friends. Now, if you or your intended have children, they should be the first to know before other family members. After all, when you get married, the children will be blended into a new family unit. They deserve to know first.

Tips On Announcing Your Engagement

Once all the important people in your life have been told, you can place an engagement announcement in your local area newspaper. This venue is a perfect way for those friends of friends and family to learn about your happy news. If you are concerned on what to put in the newspaper, look to engagement announcement archives from the paper to tailor yours to some of the others. You can also look to the internet for engagement announcement samples.

Of course, if you have a high profile life or work in a high profile job like news broadcasting or radio, you could announce your engagement via one of those methods. Use what you have available to you like when Eva Longoria announced her engagement.

You could throw a big party for a birthday or just because and then spring the announcement at that time. This would then prevent the awkwardness of whether or not someone should give you an engagement present. You can think of something clever to say to announce your engagement.

If you are rather old-fashioned, you could mail out an announcement of engagement letter to your extended family and close personal friends. Or, you could send out engagement announcement cards. There are some great tools in Photoshop for creating wedding engagements and announcements.

The internet is a great resource for finding free samples of engagement announcements as well as engagement announcement verses. Having a little help when your creative juices are not flowing is not a bad thing. You could even create your own announcement engagement invitation if you wanted to throw an engagement party.

When announcing your engagement, just keep all the key players in mind. Your children (if you have them), your parents, grandparents and other close relatives and also close friends. Beyond that, place that newspaper ad or use smoke signals to broadcast your happy news.