How to announce your engagement

This is it! He finally proposed and you are getting married!
So much excitement and happiness, you want to tell everyone about it but you don’t know how to tell it, who to tell and what to say? Here are some advice and tips to learn how to announce your Engagement.

You have dreamed about it, talked about and pictured it so many times in your head that you can’t really think this is true! But wake up girls! This has happened for real and now you have so much work to do!
I know you have the feeling that your wedding is already and fully planned in your head but in real life, your Pinterest Wedding is waiting for you to be built from A to Z!

The first step is to tell you friends and family about this amazing news and share your happiness with them! This is a once in a life time moment where you are allowed to show off your excitement, talk about you and only you, people are actually happy for you, and I can assure you that this 1-year all about me thing is not so long!
So enjoy it my dear friends, scream, smile and dance!

So let’s start with tradition. Usually, the couple has to announce their engagement to their parents in the first place.
And if we follow the tradition, the bride-to-be’s parents are the first to be informed that their little and lovely daughter is growing up and finally leaves the nest for a new cosy life with her future husband!
Try to organize something nice for the announcement, a dinner, a Sunday brunch… but try to be very natural to keep the secret until you see them in person!
For the ones who cannot not announce it face to face, a phone call is usually the second option, but let’s try to make it original and fun by making a charade or send a picture that will make them doubt and then confirm it by phone!!

After announcing it to the girl’s parents, you can do the same for the groom-to-be’s parents!
If your parents are divorced, make sure you announce it soon after the first one to avoid jealousy and start the wedding process with the right foot 😉

An engagement party is a great way to go if you want to announce your engagement all at once with all your friends and family.
You can keep the reason of the party secret, or you can disguise it by calling it a Casual Barbecue, an anniversary, a Christmas thing, anything you can find not suspicious!

Tips: Think carefully before sending the invitations, the ones who will attend you engagement party will expect a Wedding invitation!

Traditionally, the groom’s mother invite the bride’s parents over dinner so they can meet in person if they haven’t already, and talk about the wedding and the organization.
You can also plan a meeting with both of the parents to talk “business” and then organize a dinner with them, close friends, siblings, all the people involved in your wedding actually.

For the rest of the family, friends, colleagues, make your engagement announcement a bit more funny and original than a simple phone call!! Funny and cute pictures, video, photo booth, polaroid, cards, quotes etc… Be creative !

If you’re not the creative and original kidda person, here are some inspirations.

And of course…. CONGRATULATIONS !!!