So how do we go about telling our family and friends that we are engaged? This question was one of the first ones, I asked Mike shortly after his proposal. A part of me wanted to yell it from the rooftops…but a larger part wanted to simply bask in our new found status. However, being from the South we already knew that news had a way of traveling at lightning speed-especially when we weren’t being the messengers so we decided that we would personally tell our families and find a better way to tell our friends.
Our chosen method was to discreetly change both our Facebook “relationship statuses”. Since it was nearly midnight by the time we left dinner the night of the proposal we figured that would be a perfect time. Little did we know that EVERYONE was seemingly online in the middle of the night, so when I changed mine I instantly started to get posts to my page with things like “haha very funny” and “you play too much” (did I mention that I have a sick sense of humor)….So no one believed me until he changed his! From roughly 12:30 a.m. until 2:00 a.m. I responded to messages of congratulations and well wishes. We felt so loved. I went to sleep with a smile on my face.
That smile was short lived, when around 8 a.m., I started receiving phone calls and questions like “oh I know I’m a bridesmaid right?” and “can I go with you because I don’t want to be wearing an ugly dress girl!” I’m sitting here thinking “are you serious?” I called Mike in tears (he was of course sleeping well). I could not believe that we were already being bombarded with all these demands and requests! We hadn’t been engaged 24 hours yet! We had even set a date yet!
But I would not be punked! I did what any self-respecting plan-things-down-to-a-tee first time bride would do in this situation. I turned off my phone…..logged off Facebook….and went back to bed!
How did you announce your wedding?
Talk to you soon!
Olivia
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