Your personal happiness will also effect close friends and relatives who will want to share in your joy. As you commit to each other, you will be creating a new family unit. If either of you already have children, they should be the first to know. Close friends and family will also want to be notified as soon as possible. This can be done in person, by phone or with a personal note.
Most couples choose the local newspaper to announce their engagement to the general public.
Call for information on submitting photographs and copy. Most will require that the information be sent at least a month before the wedding, but will accept engagement announcements as early as a year before the event.