First things first and before we get down to it, since you’re here then can we assume congratulations are in order? Thanks for telling us before your friends and family, too, it’s a privilege and an honour! And seeing as Christmas is a time when family and friends are gathered in one place, it’s also a succinct, seamless and celebratory time to admit you’re getting hitched.
Indeed, according to leading online retailer Angelic Diamonds, the Christmas period is one of the most popular times to get engaged (it must be all that mulled wine and good cheer in the air). Accordingly, it’s also a great time to tell loved ones your great news. With that in mind, here are 4 IDEAL and festive ways to announce your engagement this Christmas.
ENGAGEMENT BAUBLES
Get creative and announce your engagement with a personalised Christmas bauble; could there be anything more festive. There are plenty of personalised bauble services out there, where you can design yours and your fiancé’s name and the date of engagement onto the decoration.
If you’re feeling playful, and we certainly are, you could create a bauble for your tree at home and leave it hanging in full frontal view and wait for guests to notice; a fun and exciting way to catch your friends and family off guard. Just make sure the bauble doesn’t suffer the fate of so many others, and fall from the tree and smash; an omen for things to come in your marriage, perhaps?
CHRISTMAS CARD ANNOUNCEMENT
Another creative and endearingly traditional way to announce your engagement is through Christmas cards. You know when your parent’s friends used to send that ‘round robin’ letter each Christmas, reporting on their life’s developments in painful detail? Well, this is similar but much more succinct.
Create your own and print a picture of you as a couple looking resplendent onto Christmas cards. Inside, sign off the card as “love from future Mr and Mrs _____”; subtle and classy, we think. Just make sure that the people you send these cards to are people you’d want at your wedding, or that will be awkward!
CHRISTMAS GAMES
This is probably one of the most unique ways to announce your engagement that we’ve come across, and it involves a Christmas day favourite. Here goes; make sure to invite both of your families over for Christmas and suggest a game of charades. Act out the concept of being engaged and wait for family and friends to put the pieces together. This is bound to get everyone excited and emotional as they realise what you’re acting, and the announcement becomes an evolving act as the game wears on. If charades doesn’t take your fancy, how about a game of Pictionary?
FESTIVE SOCIAL MEDIA POST
Maybe you don’t want lots of attention and want to announce your Christmas engagement in an easy way that doesn’t involve lots of screams, hugs, and manic family members crying with happiness. Those are tears of happiness, right?
Or maybe you simply cannot wait and want to rake those Facebook and Instagram likes in. Either way, light up your social media post with some Christmas spirit to make the announcement properly festive.
Snap a picture of you and your fiancé sharing a kiss under a piece of mistletoe, with your hand on their shoulder or hand outward towards your camera so everyone can see your diamond engagement ring. Make the background feel Christmassy too — stand at your Christmas tree or your front door with a wreath hanging in the background. Or, if you’re lucky enough that it snows, get out in nature to capture the perfect picture. Just lovely.
