How do I tell my parents I'm engaged when I haven't told both of them that we're dating?
I've been with my boyfriend since 2006 and we got engaged in May of 2010. I haven't been able to get up the nerve to announce my engagement to my family. This guy is wonderful, we get along great and we have an understanding of each other that is beyond friendship and love. Trouble comes because I feel like I should tell my parents. I've never been close to either of my parents since they divorced 12 years ago. My Fiance used to work for my father and for whatever reason my Dad doesn't like him because he quit working for him and found another job when we started dating. My mom doesn't like him because she thinks that I should find a rich husband to buy me things. I don't care about having a bunch of things and being miserable. I managed to tell my mom that I'm dating the guy but she hasn't even met him. My Dad goes "stalker insane creepy shotgun man" at the mere idea of me dating My fiance. My fiance and I are both adults. I'm 24 and he's 31. He has two children from a previous relationship ( he has never been married) which is fine with me because I don't want to have children of my own and he doesn't want any more children. I accept him for all of his faults and he does the same for me. I love his kids and I wouldn't mind being a step mom. My dad specifically told me not to date this guy and I was already in love with him. I'm reluctant to take my parents advice because they both have a long history of divorce and turbulent relationships. I really feel like I have found the love of my life. Should I be concerned with telling my parents since they hardly ever contact me anymore or call me and we live in separate cites? How should I make the wedding announcement to the family without pissing off my parents from here until eternity? The wedding is next September x_x Any advice or help is appreciated.

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since the wedding announcement - has Kate shown off her Willy to her friends and family?


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Why are wedding/engagement announcements so pretentious?
I've been reading the engagement and wedding announcements in my local paper, and they all seem really pretentious! They seem like a cold run down from the brides parent's on the couple's accomplishments, and nothing about the couple themselves! They always seem to read 'The bride graduated from this school and works for this company, the groom graduated from that school and is employed by that company.' Why aren't engagement announcements more like 'The couple met 3 years ago, they love traveling together and can't wait to start a family!' I went to college and have a good job too. But when I tell the world about my engagement I'd rather it be about me and my husband to be, then my career. http://www.dailyrecord.com/wedding/engag? Like look at that form! Why the job and school info? Why not a paragraph that says 'tell us about the bride and groom, how did they meet, when will they have the ceremony?'

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How to announce a marriage...?
My fiance and I have been together for 7 years, engaged for 4..we each have a child and this will be my second marriage. My fiance is not big on being the center of a attention or making a big deal out of things. So we are talking about doing a courthouse wedding and maybe just going to dinner or something after with our kids and maybe our parents. I would like to announce our marriage to family and friends...is there something we could mail out like a "wedding announcement" (like you would for a baby) that wouldn't be tacky, but would just be announcing that we are happy and that we finally tied the knot?

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Is this considered harassment? What should I do?
I have been struggling with an ex-boyfriend of mine for nearly a year now. In April of last year (2010), he broke up with me for one of my best guy friends. Since then they have both been harassing me. Over social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, etc., they have been slandering my name and calling me incredibly crude names. Since the day he broke up with me, for four months straight I would get calls from blocked numbers every single day (I would never answer them), emails that didn?t concern me but they knew would upset me (such as announcements of their love and fake wedding announcements, etc.), and would both send me incredibly foul text messages calling me names, making fun of me, and even MMSing distorted pictures of myself. Both of them proceeded to go through my social life and contact all of my close friends with messages filled with lies about how they shouldn?t be my friend (they successfully stole all but five of my close friends, all of who will vouch for this). They had gotten me to a point where I was terrified of going out since I couldn?t handle running into them, and it even got to a point where I had to inform my employer of the severe harassment in worries that they would contact me at work or try to terminate my employment. I had told them on occasion to leave me alone, but nearing the end of four months they attempted to break into my house. I couldn?t handle it anymore and had my father contact my ex?s father in hopes of ending this. It successfully stopped for about a week or two, then started up again, just not as frequently. They?d send their friends after me, constantly trying to friend request me on Facebook and send me messages. It nearly stopped in late August, and since then I have moved away and made a happy life for myself, but now it seems like it is starting up again. Blocking their numbers from my phone will not stop them from contacting me (the boyfriend of my ex called me through his email last night), and I am actually terrified of them finding out where I live. I?ve gotten to a point where I don?t know what I should do. I?m considering contacting the authorities or bringing the two boys to court. Would this constitute as harassment? I don?t have proof of everything, but I can get proof of texts and phone calls and a few messages they?ve sent to friends of mine. I cannot continue to just sit idly by and ignore this. What should I do?

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How to send out really late wedding announcements?
My husband and I are celebrating our 1st wedding anniversary feb 13th. We had a VERY small wedding in our home with about 20 people. We were going to send out wedding announcements after but there was a family tragedy the day day after our wedding that lasted months and side tracked us all. By the time things settled down ( a few months ago), we had forgotten to send them out. I would like to send them out now that out 1 year is coming up and thought we could play off that a bit in the announcement or something. I want to send them out this week but can't think of what to say on them. All the traditional things like "just married" don't seem to apply, obviously its been a while. People have recently made comments to my parents that they totally forgot we had gotten married because they never got any announcement. When my brother got married he got thousands of dollars in gifts from our family and nobody even sent me a card. I'm not fishing for money, I would just like acknowledgement. A card maybe. My husband thinks it would be tacky to send it out now but I feel really hurt that my entire family just ignored that I got married. How Can I send out announcements that aren't tacky? Can anyone give me any wording ideas for the announcement? Even making joke of the lateness? I'm feeling kinda stuck here. They are all over the country so a party is out.. Yes, they forgot. A few family members have mentioned it to my mom. Some didn't even know we had gotten married. The tragedy only effected my immediate family which kept us from dealing with post-wedding things, not the people who had forgot or were unaware we were even married. iloveweddings: Not everyone can have big weddings when they only have $500 to do the entire thing. Yes, we got 3 cards at the wedding. I loved them and keep them. Its NOT about money. I couldnt have my dream wedding. I couldn't include all the people I would have loved to have their. I couldn't even have my best friend there. I keep bing told that I didn't get cards wishing me well because my wedding wasn't a big deal. I spend my life dreaming of my perfect wedding where everyone is so happy for me and even my aunt didn't wish me well. Its not about the money. I just want to feel like my wedding was as important as all my cousins and my brothers who everyone sent card after card to wishing them a long happy life. I've given up so much for my family and I have always been there for them but they all use the same excuse why they didn't send a card "well we never got and announcement." It hurts my feelings. I only get one wedding. yes "cyn" I do expect my mothers sister to remember that I got married. I wasn't invited to her son's wedding but I sent them a card and a gift.. without getting an announcement. I don't understand. I asked for people to help me with the wording not judge my reasons or insult me for sending out announcements, I didn't get to do all the fun things that come in planning a wedding and I always wanted to do those things. I didn't get to send out announcements even though I've really wanted to and family members keep asking when I will be sending them. I thought it would be fun to do it an the anniversary but all the announcements are blank leaving me to fill them in and I wanted something cute or playful. But all most of you people have done is make me feel horrible for it. Nowhere did I ask if You thought I should send them, I only asked for a non-tacky wording. This was important to me and when I just needed some help i'm left just wanting to cry. I shouldn't have to defend reasons or what I went through. If you cant think of a cute working, just don't post. When did this sit become about putting people down instead of answering their questions?

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how to word an announcement after the wedding from bride & groom?
how do you word a wedding announcement from the bride & groom after the wedding

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How to word newspaper wedding announcement?
So in our local newspaper, there is a place where couples announce their wedding to the public. I know I am having an invitation only wedding, BUT I want to announce that we are getting married with a picture in it too. My fiance's parents are divorced, but she still going by her married last name? How would I write this and how should it go? Thanks

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Announcement wording help!!!?
My fiance and I have been engagement since May 2010. We planned a large and semi expensive wedding for May 1, 2011. (save the dates nor invites were ever sent out but almost everyone knew of our May 1 date) End of October we found out we are expecting. YAY!! BUT our priorities have changed and my guilt over spending all that money on a wedding instead of our little muchkin took over. Needless to say, we have canceled our wedding and will just do a courthouse one. We would like to send out wedding announcements but dont know the appropriate wording to kind of cancel the big day but let them know that we have gotten married. HELP!!! and thank you! P.S. Was thinking of starting out by saying "Life is filled with surprises....."

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how do i properly my godparents in my wedding announcements for my father whom i do not speak to?
i am wanting to put them in the place of my dad whom i no longer speak to (its his choosing not mine) and my mother has passed on so she will be on there but not him and my god parents helped raise me when he left so i feel they should be honored in this celebration as well, i just don't want to offend anyone in the process

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My Maid of honor declined to be in my wedding?
My best friend of 15 years has declined to be in my wedding party. Her first reason were finance issues. When I offered to pay for everything she then claims that she is on wedding over load because she just got married herself. Our weddings are almost a year apart. Ever since her wedding announcement, she's been a completely different person. She then continues on stating that I want pay back for all the effort that I put into her special day because I went above and beyond for her and made sure she is happy; and that it's the only reason why I am upset. It's not the case. It's about being able to share and celebrate my special day with my best friend. It's different when she's just a guest. I want her to be able to stand next to me and sign my wedding papers with me. I feel like she doesn't care about my feelings. She didn't even want to answer my phone calls. She told me this news via txt message. When I try to call her, to talk about it she ignores me. :( Sadly, I feel like our 15 year friendship will be coming to an end. I don't want to loose my best friend. Am I over reacting?

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A friend of mine is designing my baby announcements...?
OK, a friend of mine is a professional graphic designer. At my request, she is custom- designing my birth announcements. I am paying her but she is charging me a discounted rate since I´m a personal friend of $25, plus costs of stock paper and printing. She has asked me if she can put her name and website on my birth announcements, says that it will be at the bottom, discrete and ¨barely noticeable.¨ Is it normal for custom birth announcements to have the designer´s info on them? I mean if you order wedding announcements and the like they don´t have the designer´s info on them. And I´m not sure how much of a discount I´m getting, as I´ve never ordered custom birth announcements before, and I was just trying to help my friend out since she´s been struggling to find work and she is very good at what she does... so am I getting enough of a discount that it´s ¨fair¨ to have that info on them? Is it acceptable for her to ask this of me and what would you do in a similar situation? Thanks everyone--- I really didn´t realize how expensive they can be! Plus I know she´s putting a ton of work into them, since she´s doing them custom from scratch. Not only that but she´s actually coming up with 3 sample designs to start and letting me choose the one I like best and going from there. She´s helping me out more than I realized so I´ll definitely let her do it. I think I´ll ask her to do it on the back and as long as it´s discrete it shouldn´t take away from my boys. Plus I think it would be beyond awesome if she does get more work out of them.

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Why do they use Kate Middleton, but on the wedding announcements they used Catherine?
Why not Katherine with a K? My name Catherine is with a C. I am curious about this. Thank You all for answering my question. I really can't decide on the best answer. I might let this question go to vote and let others vote for their strongest opinion.

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wedding announcements, even if they are not invited?
Me and my husband decided to have a small courthouse wedding (only 4 ppl witnessing it) and I am still wearing my dress, we will still have a small dinner with the 4 people and such. All the traditions, only smaller! Anyways I have wedding invitations here waiting, but I didnt know if I should even send those out to everyone (30 people we WOULD have invited had out budget been bigger!!) even if there will not be a BIG wedding. what do you think? I want people to know about our upcoming wedding/marriage! sorry announcments not invites I am not looking for gifts from sending these out btw..I just am so thrilled to be having this wedding...and I love his so much that I want to share that. there will not be a reception at all. I mean the 4 ppl we r inviting to the wedding and us are going to go out for a nice dinner together, but no there will not be a HUGE reception because thats not going to work.

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paris and Juliet Wedding Announcement! help?
I have to write a wedding announcement for paris and juliet.! i know it never happend but supposing it did i guess! please help!

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