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Wedding Engagement Announcement - He Gave you a Ring!
You'll want to shout your wedding engagement from the rooftops. Before you get any hasty engagement announcement ideas, here is the best way to go about spreading the wonderful engagement news. When making your wedding engagement announcement, the first people you should tell about your engagement are your parents and/or any children from a previous union. Traditionally the rule of engagement dictates that the groom's parents call the bride's parents to introduce themselves and invite them to meet. The second group of people to give your engagement announcement to are all other relatives and your friends. They can be told in person or by phone, either is acceptable. An engagement party is traditionally held by the bride's parents but, in recent years it has become acceptable for anyone to host your engagement party.
The engagement tradition dates back to caveman times when rushes were braided to tie the brides legs and arms together until she agreed to the marriage. Lucky for brides, the Egyptian pharoahs were the first to use the shape of a circle without a beginning or an end - a wedding engagement ring - to symbolize eternity. The wealthy in Medieval times enhanced the wedding engagement ring with gem stones. Stones that were most popular in these times were rubies, representing the heart and sapphires representing the heavens. In the fifteenth century, the Venetians realized that diamonds were the hardest substance in nature and could be cut and polished to a brilliant finish. In that century, one of the first documents that had shown the engagement ring featured diamonds. Since then, the strength and brilliance of the diamond has endured as the stone of choice for engagement rings when making your engagement proposal and engagement announcement.
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