Three Great Ways to Announce Your Engagement

Newspaper Announcements
Brides and grooms have many options to announce their engagement or wedding day. Newspaper announcements will not only help to announce your special day, but the newspaper will serve as a great memento for years to come. So, if you wish to announce your engagement to your community, place a wedding announcement in your local newspaper. It is quite possible to announce your wedding or engagement in more than one newspaper. If you are now living in a city other than your hometown, you may want to place an announcement in more than one newspaper. Brides and grooms who live in different cities than their parents should send announcements to hometown newspapers as well as their own local papers. A phone call to your local newspaper's wedding or announcement desk is one way to obtain information. It is quite possible that some newspapers will have online forms available at their respective Web sites.

If you are looking to get your wedding announcement published, here is the contact information to some of the largest newspapers in the country.
The New York Times Tel (212) 556-7325.
Dallas Morning News Tel (214) 977-8408.
Chicago Tribune Tel (312) 222-4049.
Boston Globe Tel (617) 929-2792.
Miami Herald Tel (305) 350-2111.
Washington Post Tel (800) 627-1150.
Los Angeles Times Tel (213) 237-5000.

For additional information, you should contact your local weddings editor to find out how to place your announcement. In addition, be sure to pick up some newspapers to see how other couples have announced their wedding or engagement.

Mailed Announcements
A much less public, but perhaps more intimate way to announce your wedding or engagement is to mail your announcements. There are a wide variety of announcement cards to choose from. You can also include your engagement picture with your cards.

E-mail Announcements
E-mail is the most widely used service on the Internet. Since more and more people are online e-mailing your announcements could be very effective. There are many Web sites on the Internet specializing in online postcards. It is not only very inexpensive (or perhaps even free) but it is also much faster than most other ways of announcing your engagement.