Proposing to your partner is a memory of a lifetime, and by following these tips, you can ensure that you remember your engagement for all the right reasons!
Setting up the perfect engagement will involve careful planning, much thought, and attention to detail if you want it to go perfectly. The last thing anyone wants is for their engagement to be remembered for all the wrong reasons.
Sometimes, events out of your control unfold, derailing even the most carefully planned engagement. However, by putting a little thought into your engagement, you’ll give it the best possible chance of success, creating a memory you will cherish for your entire life.
In the following article we’ll cover:
Make Sure You’re Both Ready
Blessing or No Blessing?
Picking the Perfect Engagement Ring
Hire A Professional
Practice What You’re Going to Say
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Make Sure You’re Both Ready
While it may sound obvious, ensuring that both people in the relationship are on the same page and ready to take the next step is crucial to a successful proposal. Nothing will ruin the perfect engagement quicker than your partner not being prepared to commit to a long-term relationship.
To gauge their interest, talk to your partner about the future, listen for any hints they drop, or bring up friends and family and their engagements or proposals. While it can be a delicate topic to discuss without making the actual proposal, listening, and watching how your partner reacts to conversations about the future, relationship, and marriage should give you some clear clues about their intention.
Blessing or No Blessing?
Getting your partner’s parent’s or guardian’s blessing may be considered ‘old-school’ or ‘overly traditional’ by many people, but you’d still be surprised at how important it is. It really depends on the person and their family. They may not consider it that important, but their parents are another story, and most people care a lot about respecting their parents and family traditions.
This doesn’t mean that your partner is a piece of property you must ask for. However, if it’s essential to your partner, it should be important to you, regardless of your thoughts.
Consider this, “I am in love with your daughter/son/child and want to spend the rest of my life with them. I plan on proposing, and it would be my honor if you were part of this special moment in our lives.”
Picking the Perfect Engagement Ring
Remember, your partner will wear their engagement ring for the rest of their life, so getting the perfect engagement ring is crucial. If it’s a planned engagement or proposal, narrowing down the style and size of the engagement ring will be a lot easier. However, a surprise proposal won’t prevent you from picking the perfect engagement ring.
Try looking closely at the type of jewelry they wear daily, or speak to best friends, siblings, and family to narrow down their style.
Now, determining ring size can be tricky but not impossible. Check out the rings they currently own and make a note of which finger they wear them on. Either take it to the jeweler or put it on your own finger and make a note of where it sits. Some jewelers can even narrow down ring sizes based on your partner’s height and weight. Don’t forget, you can always get a ring resized after to ensure that it fits perfectly, but you want to get it as close as possible.
Hire A Professional Photographer
You have a few choices regarding photographs to remember the special occasion. You can include a family member or friend to record and photograph the engagement or hire a professional. Our personal recommendation is to hire a professional photographer. They have the experience and equipment to ensure that they capture every moment of your proposal perfectly.
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Practice What You’re Going to Say
It may sound silly, but practice what you will say to your partner. You don’t have to memorize an entire speech. Still, something short and meaningful delivered smoothly will be a special memory for both your partner and you, and your proposal will be delivered smoothly, with more confidence.
One of the most commonly asked questions after you announce your engagement to friends and family will be, “What did they say and how did they propose?” so getting the speech right is vital. The last thing you want to do is stammer, stutter, or mumble your way through your proposal.
Setting Up the Perfect Engagement – Conclusion
You only get one chance of achieving a perfect engagement, so don’t rush. Take your time planning and executing your proposal. Hopefully, with the engagement tips above, your proposal will be a memory you and your partner can fondly remember for the rest of your lives.
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