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How to Announce Your Engagement After the Holiday Season
Jan
As the holiday season has just passed, there is probably one or two of your friends at Facebook or your contacts on Instagram that might have just gotten engaged. A lucky bride-to-be got an exquisite diamond ring as a Christmas gift and a dashing groom might have finally received the most awaited “Yes!” as a year-ender surprise.
If you are among those lucky ones with the unforgettable holiday this year, then you might just be wondering on how to formally announce your engagement. How do you let the news out especially today in the fast times of social media and the never-ending news feeds online. We here at Giftware Direct are willing to break it down and walk you through on how to let your family and friends know about the good news ASAP.
Here’s how to announce your engagement:
Give the news straight to the most important people in your life.
After all the crying has subsided and after all the emotions have settled, you can immediately start dialling to inform your closest friends and your immediate family members. Hit up the group chat with your besties and call up your parents so they can hear about the great news straight from you and your new fiance. In some cases nowadays, this is where proposing during a holiday dinner or a family get-together becomes handy because everybody gets to be a part of such an amazing moment between the two lovebirds.
Post the iconic ring selfie.
Next up is the ultimate blessing for future brides, social media posts. Gone are the days that you would need to mail letters or cards to announce your engagement or any other important life milestone. With a quick snap, you can easily broadcast the news to your friends and followers and they, too, get to celebrate and cherish the moment with you instantly. Be ready to bombarded with messages and video calls from all your close friends and get ready to forever be receiving the congratulatory comments and well-wishes all over Facebook and Instagram. Especially if you break the news during the weekend or the holiday break, your phone’s going to be beeping off the hook and your notifs will definitely get busted!
Celebrate with a party.
Be it a huge gathering or an intimate party with your closest family and friends, an engagement party never goes out of style. It’s a great way to gather all your loved ones and get them all acquainted with the other side of the wedding party. To start the wedding talks, you can also give your family a heads up if you are planning on tying the knot on which season next year or if you are putting off the wedding for another year to get enough time to plan. You can also have the chance to show off your beautiful ring and show everybody the proposal video so they could see how dropping the big question came about.
Have an engagement shoot.
Most couples would expect the engagement shoot to be an extra expense on their part and would rather skip it so they can go straight to a wedding shoot. However, engagement portraits are great to have not only for social media posts and profile photo updates, but these photos can also be used widely during the wedding itself. From the save-the-dates, the wedding website, the photo booth templates and even to the wedding reception decorations, your engagement photos can be quite useful throughout the pre-wedding game so better think twice before skipping it.
Set up a wedding website or a wedding page.
You can compile all the wedding details easily with the use of an online wedding page. You may opt to have a free one set up through various wedding planning apps or wedding blog sites but you can also set up a page via Facebook so you can reach everyone that you would want to include easily. With each update you have about the wedding, be it the dates, the venue, or even the theme, you can instantly let your guests know. Start the wedding website early on so you can fill it with details about the engagement to include all your friends and family in the beautiful story that you and your beloved fiance is creating.
