Wedding Planning: Five Ideas for Engagement Announcements

Announcing your engagement? Let them know about your nuptials in a fun and creative way. Here, we offer five wedding essentials ideas for spreading the word about your wedding planning status and ways to spotlight your personality as a couple.

Create a Website
Wedding Websites are a high-tech way of sharing your upcoming wedding with friends and relatives far and near. Creating a wedding website will help keep folks in the loop on planning details, and also gives you a platform for sharing photos, links to gift registries and other important wedding information.

Plan a Party
While this might be the most traditional of ways to announce your engagement, it’s certainly one of the most fun! Hosting an engagement party is a great way to share your big news all at once. It’s also a chance to celebrate and live it up, which, could serve as a precursor of an awesome reception to come.

Shoot a Video
Turn on the Flip and shoot a sweet video message about your engagement. Upload your video on your favorite viral sites (Vimeo, YouTube) and share your link online. Who knows, if your wedding essentials video is creative enough, you might find yourselves the talk of the Internet.

Share an Online Album
Create a fun photo album to share photos throughout your time as a couple. Cool sites like Animoto.com lets you take photos, add captions and a musical background to create amazing, professional custom video presentations.

Put it in Writing
Send a save-the-date allows you to announce your engagement and the date to your upcoming wedding all in one!