2nd Wedding - how to do engagement announcement?

[gennymac]

Hey Ladies ! I have gotten so much wonderful information from this site and from those on it.

I've just gotten engaged (formally) over the weekend and am now in the throes of planning. Luckily, I had some idea it was coming so have been working quietly for awhile and have alot done already.

But - completely ignored the engagement announcement. This is a second marriage for us both, we have lived on our own for many years, both in our 40'ies, and have grown children. So, am trying to figure out what my engagement announcement should say.....

Here is what I have come up with - any comments/edits would be greatly appreciated !

Gen McGlothlin, President and Partner of Giant Head LLC, and Stephen Peterson, Senior Electrical Engineer with Jacobs International, announce their engagement. Mr. Peterson proposed to Ms. McGlothlin on a sunset cruise off the coast of SC, on Saturday, August 11. Ms. McGlothlin is the daughter of Gladys M. Jessee of Richlands, VA. Mr. Peterson is the son of William and Florita Peterson of Smithfield, NC. Mrs. McGlothlin's mother, daughter, Sasha Reve Lambert, and Mr. Peterson's son, William Tyler Peterson were guests on the cruise. An engagement party was held in Cherry Grove, SC that evening. The nautical themed party was hosted by Ms. McGlothlin's neices, Scotty Morrow Buff and husband Ryan Buff of Charleston, SC, Eowyn Morrow of Spartanburg, SC, and Mary Morrow of Cary, NC. A spring wedding is planned.OK - should I split the engagement party off as a second 'announcement' or is this ok? Is the wording for the actual engagement ok, or is there too much?

BTW - engagement party picture attached. Big Fun, huge surprise !

Thanks guys.

GennyMac

[soontobemrs]

May you can just send a Save The Date card/magnet and say:

______ bought the ring
___________ said Yes
There's going to be a wedding.
We hope you'll be our guest

Wedding Date:__________
Formal invitation to follow

Of course, there are a million other ways to phrase it - I just grabbed this one first.

[StJohnBride]

My only question is why you're saying you had an engagement party. Were the recipients of this announcement not invited to the party? Then I think it shouldn't be mentioned.

Like if I got a wedding announcement telling me all about the wedding. ouch!

Other than that -- wording seems fine. A little formal, but that may be appropriate depending on who you're sending this to.

Personally, and this is just my opinion, I don't feel engagement announcements are necessary. But I'm also against registries, so I'm alone in many of my wedding-related issues. ;)

[gennymac]

I should have been more clear - this is the engagement announcement for the newspapers - not an announcement of the upcoming wedding. I'll do individual invitations and save the date cards for that shortly. I just need to get this into the paper before my family tars and feathers me........it's evidently still the thing to do in small towns where families have lived for generations............so that was the audience. Newspaper engagement announcement.

Sorry - and thank you !

[StJohnBride]

I think it's perfect!!

[Jacklynn]

I think it sounds great!

[SerendipityCrafts]

Is it necessary in your area or customary in to mention your titles & place of employment? If you were looking to shorten it in any way, that is where I would cut but if it's the norm where you are, go for it!

LOL I understand about relatives wanting this done. It's the family's way of bragging so to speak ie .... look, my daughter/son is marrying into a fine family :)

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LOL I understand about relatives wanting this done. It's the family's way of bragging so to speak ie .... look, my daughter/son is marrying into a fine family :)

I had to giggle at the "fine family"!! At least they hope so!!:o

[bichonlvr]

May you can just send a Save The Date card/magnet and say:

______ bought the ring
___________ said Yes
There's going to be a wedding.
We hope you'll be our guest

Wedding Date:__________
Formal invitation to follow

Of course, there are a million other ways to phrase it - I just grabbed this one first.

That's what we said in ours!!! :) So cute!

[hummingbird521]

LOL I understand about relatives wanting this done. It's the family's way of bragging so to speak ie .... look, my daughter/son is marrying into a fine family :)

Hey, now i know why my family never wanted me to do one before. :D

[gennymac]

Yea, my father was known to announce to his guests that they were eating at the "finest table in the land" after short discussions with Jack and George. It's gonna be real interesting to see how his lowland crowd gets along with my highland bred mountain folk. Yes, interesting is mild. Bragging rights have already started cause MIL to be had the chance to come join us on the cruise and she passed it up. Not a good first move. Oh well, I had a blast anyway ! And intend to continue doing just that.

Thanks so much for all of your input and edits. I've cut it back a bit (yes I don't see any reason for our employment to be included, but......it was recommended and guess which side made that one?) and will be sending it out to the papers next week - now that my mother has decided she doesn't like the engagement pics of us from this weekend and we now have to have a "sitting". If I have my way I'll sit with a cold drink in my hand while my daughter snaps a couple of us giggling like two fools and slip it in without telling. Oh boy this is gonna be sooo much fun !

[SerendipityCrafts]

If I have my way I'll sit with a cold drink in my hand while my daughter snaps a couple of us giggling like two fools and slip it in without telling. Oh boy this is gonna be sooo much fun !

Now that sounds fun!

You can always email that pic to the newspapers just before the paper goes to press. Last minute substitute that no one will know about until they get their paper :)

Sorry Treasia ... maybe your family didn't consider him or his "fine"? LOL

We did it for my first marriage but I never even thought of doing it for this second one. Back then, that was the only reason to get engagement pics taken.

If it makes you feel any better, MIL didn't suggest it (perhaps because it was her son's 2nd wedding?!!) but it's just the type of thing they do in their small town.

The "social columnist" will even report on the wedding itself - what the bride wore, what colours her bridesmaids were decked out in, where the couple plans to settle.

[gennymac]

Oh yes, I went through that the first time. The reporter actually came back to my mother's after the wedding to 'take a peek' at the gown to get a better feel for how to describe it.

It was straight out of Gone with the Wind darrlun - and there was enough material in it to drown a good sized horse if you fell under it.

This time is gonna be much more ........... fun. Even with the columnist yapping at my heels.

[SerendipityCrafts]

It was straight out of Gone with the Wind darrlun - and there was enough material in it to drown a good sized horse if you fell under it.

LOL!!!! Too funny.

[gennymac]

Oh it gets better ! The MOH was PREGNANT and trying to hide it so my mother wouldn't go into heart failure and I insisted that her 22 mo daughter was the flower girl. That was one heck of a hilarious ceremony. The baby crawled under my huge hoop skirts - so stiff she had to push them up to get under them and the congregation got a shot of what the new husband was gett'n later. Then later, still during the ceremony, she peeped back out from the back side again and saw her daddy and went running to get into his lap and watch the rest of the show.

We had an open church wedding, meaning all comers are welcome, and the town police had to close the intersecting roads in front of the church as we all spilled out into the street BEFORE we ever got to the reception. Great party, really great party. Marriage --- not so good. But a great party.