How did you announce your engagement?

Beautiful ring!

We didn't do anything fancy.... just a simple, "We're engaged!". We told the important people (family, closest friends...) in person if we were able to... otherwise, they all got a phone call. After they were all informed... a day later I posted it in Facebook. That's about it.

I first called my immediate family (they live out of state) and then we went and told his family (they live in state). I told my two best friends over text because we were in a movie and I couldn't wait to tell them. We then announced it at church the following Sunday and THEN I put it on facebook. I think now just about everyone knows.

I posted it on facebook and waited for the calls to come in and 40 seconds phone was ringing and text messages cam through...close family and friends got a text

We didn't do any big announcement. We called up immediate family and close friends (all of which live in a different state so in person wasn't possible). The rest spread either by word of mouth or facebook. Our save the dates/christmas cards were our "announcement" to people who we hadn't seen yet or who hadn't heard it directly from us.

It was very important to us that friends and family did NOT find out via facebook. I guess you can call us old fashioned...

He proposed on a Tuesday so we waited 3 days to let it all sink in and that gave us time to discuss what we wanted before everyone else started putting in their two cents. We didn't want to loose sight of what we wanted (and I'm so glad we did that). On Friday we went over and told my family, Saturday we drove to tell his family and then Sunday we called all our friends to let them in on the good news. The facebook status wasn't updated until 2 weeks after we were engaged. At that point all our closest friends and all our families knew

I didn't want people o find out via facebook either, but then I told my Mom...lol

We were away, so I called my parents (and asked them to call my grandma) and my best friend, then texted a few people, FH called his mother who wanted to post it on FB immediately, but we held her off. Then we decided we better just do it before she did. Over a year later I still get "Oh, you're engaged? Congrats!" from people.

We told our parents before he actually proposed, just to kinda feel it out, because we had only been together for 3 months lol. They were totally supportive and could see already this was the real deal. Then once the actual proposal happened a few days later we called and told them it was official, plus told a few close friends. Then we put it on Facebook and so did the parents, then everyone knew lol

I messed up in telling people about my engagement. We were on vacation in California visiting friends when he popped the question on the beach. I called my mom immediately because he didn't tell her what he had planned. Then I sent a picture text of myself with my FH on one knee proposing to my closest friends. Then I posted it to Facebook. We had a busy day ahead of us and it never dawned on me to call people. We upset a lot of people in our families by not calling them but in my opinion, those who were most important to us and active in our daily lives were told immediately.

My closest friends and parents already knew when it was happening! He was elaborate with his plans. The family I'm close to who weren't there I sent a picture text to. Then lastly I put it on FB.

Ours is an interesting story!!

We got engaged on a Saturday... and I send a picture of the ring on my hand to my mom and dad (out of state) that night.

Then, for FH's family, we went over their house the next day for a gathering for his brother who was home from college for his birthday that was in a few weeks. We had arrived around 1pm... I had the ring on and his mom was cooking, his whole family, even cousins were there just chillin for HOURS... we wanted to see if anyone noticed... it was painfully obvious to us, we were like staring at each other as the day went on...I even would put it on the arm rest of wherever I was sitting and scratch my face when people were talking to me. NO ONE NOTICED lol... and finally before dinner, like 4 hours later lol, we said we would like to make an announcement and I said "Brandon asked me to marry him last night" and everyone swooned and was like omg!! So we still can't believe no one noticed.

Then we posted it on FB after dinner that night :-)

We also felt it important to not have our close family and friends find out via Facebook. After he proposed we told our families via phone calls (we were on vacation) and called or texted our immediate friends. He emailed back his best friends in a group email and we waited for a reply before we posted it on FB to ensure no one super close to us found out that way. THEN we posted it on FB for everyone else to see.

@ Jessica N- one of my best friends invited us to visit her and her bf on a trip they were on nearby the city we were living in at the time. The night before he had proposed but she didn't tell us...waiting for me to notice the ring. All throughout dinner we never noticed, but I was so elated to see her after living away from each other. Once she announced, I cant believe I missed THE RING...the TACORI ring she and I had designed for her years ago. LOL

We called everyone--took about two days since we both have big families. We did't post to FB until everyone who was important to us already know. I think it was about a week later.

I wish I had come up with something creative, but I was just too excited! I called up my girls and dad right away

Your ring is gorgeous We actually announced it by word of mouth. Nothing really formal, although I wish we had. I think facebook was as formal as it got for us! lol

We didn't really tell anyone at first, except people I work with because they saw the ring. Once we decided on the date and city we were going to do it, we sent out save the dates. A few days after the save the dates were sent, we were flooded with phone calls. We didn't warn any of our family first. I know it sounds crazy, but they kind of expect that behavior from us. And we honestly really do LOVE our family, they are all just so far away and we pretty quiet and keep to ourselves.

I called both of my parents that night. We called his folks, too. Called my sister and let my best friends know. Then we just told people as we saw them and announced on FB.

Went sent texts to the WP and family but changed our status on facebook about the same time so. I think everyone was happy for us.

Updated facebook. We were on a cruise in the middle of the Pacific Ocean