How to Announce Your Engagement to Family & Friends

Series Summary

When is it time to pop the question? To marry or not to marry? The next point of marriage proposal stress is how to pop the question. Should it be traditional by going down to one knee or being creative by coming up with a unique proposal style? It all comes down to each individual couple or person doing the proposal. After the proposal, the real fun begins. The hard work is keeping the flame lit. Marriage is the hardest job but well worth it if the relationship is with the right person. In this free video series, get wedding proposal and marriage advice from an experienced marriage analyst. First, get all the dirt on planning and asking a significant other for their hand in marriage. Learn creative techniques for planning a proposal and how to propose to a man and a women. Finally, get valuable advice for after the wedding like avoiding money problems in a marriage, sharing responsibilities, maintaining a healthy sex life, remaining attractive in a marriage and getting along with in-laws and extended family.

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Joe Cuenco with Family Resources. And today we're going to talk about how we announce happy news. Specifically, how do we announce our engagement to our family and friends? Well What's the best way about going out making this announcement? Well this will be obviously probably the most important news that our families will hear besides having a child. We need to think about the pecking order. Who's most important in the family. Probably it's going to be your direct parents to be notified first. And normally a direct communication is the most important way. A lot of folks like to plan a nice dinner, a nice event where the parents inner family and as much extended family can be there to announce the great news. If your extended family can't be there, perhaps a telephone call after that event might be a way to get to let them know. There's also resources on the internet. There are cards, electronic cards that can be sent out, could be very creative, to the extended family. Or you have the traditional cards that could be sent out. So just be creative. There's many way to do this, or even employ multiple options. There is also advice available from wedding planners. Look on the internet, Google and find out some resources for you, some web sites. But this is hopefully good news that you're dealing with. But perhaps it might be, might not be such good news to some family members. If you're marrying Big Foot, your Uncle John may not be so happy about that. So seek advice from other family members about how to minimize the impact. You want to make sure that this is the happiest day in your life and that your family accepts the news in the best way that they can. And this is how we can announce our engagement to our family and friends. I'm Joe Cuenco, with Family Resources, relationships for life."