Are you announcing your engagement/wedding in the local paper?

Oh gosh idk if I would. I would feel awkward having everyone known my life. But then again, maybe you live in a small town?

My mom just asked me the same thing. I honestly thought it was a joke. Seems odd to me, so I wouldn't do it myself. I won't stop her if she wants to do it though.

My daughters are not doing paper announcements. They're actually pretty costly and none of us subscribe to a paper anymore anyway.

I agree. There's a local paper for the town I grew up in and the 3 neighboring towns, and I have seen engagement and wedding announcements in it, but most of those people still live in those towns. I haven't lived in my home town in like a decade, and don't really keep in touch with anyone from there, so it would have been silly to do. Plus, like you said, with social media, the people that you want to know will know once you post it.

I hadn't thought of doing it until a few months after I was engaged, but I know that I like to go back and occasionally look at it - and honestly the local newspaper could use the content. Would your parents appreciate an easy way to brag about you?

I did the first time in 1994!! Now? No, my parents have passed we no longer live in our hometown. I think my FH's mom wanted to announce it in her church bulletin though!!! LOL! She never did though. I would not have cared if she had done this.

My mom put a little announcement in the paper for us. I didn't want to make much noise about it on Facebook. I'm a teacher in the area that gets our local paper, and my students really got a kick out of seeing my photo. We also live in our hometown now, so people like high school teachers and friend's parents saw it. I really don't see the point if I was still living at my old place where no one really knew me.