Becoming engaged is a very romantic time in a person’s life and something they want to share with their friends and family. Traditionally engagement announcements aren’t as elaborate as wedding invitations because they aren’t as formal. However, that doesn’t mean people don’t want them to be lovely.

 In fact, many couples have already decided upon a wedding date when they send out their engagement announcements. They include the date of the wedding in the engagement announcement so people will be sure to keep the date open on their social calendars. If they couple has already decided upon wedding colors the engagement announcements can compliment them as well.

It is perfectly acceptable to contact your friends and family via phone or a gathering to tell them about he engagement as well. As a rule of etiquette though you will want to include them on your mailing list for an engagement announcement. They will likely want to have a keepsake of the event.

The wording on the inside of your engagement announcement can be written however you want it to be. While it is customary to include the names of the bride and groom’s parents on wedding invitations you don’t have to do so on engagement announcements. You can choose to only include your names and to save the formalities for your wedding invitations.

If you aren’t sure of the design or the wording you want for your engagement announcements you can get many good ideas online. You can even create your own engagement announcements if you find one you like the design of and another you like the wording of. You can also choose to e-mail engagement announcements rather than mail them out.

It is also customary to place an engagement announcement in the local newspaper as well to let the general public know. You can contact the newspaper office to find out the details of the information they require before they will publish it. In many cases they will give you a limited amount of space and you will have to condense the engagement announcement information. If you don’t live in your hometown you may also want to publish the information in that newspaper as well.