How to Submit Your Engagement Announcement to the Newspaper

Just engaged? Congratulations! Here’s how to share the news with your community

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Announcing your wedding engagement in the paper is a lovely way to let your family, friends, and local community know about and share your good news. But how do you write the announcement? Here’s how to submit the information to your paper.

Dear Wedding Guru: “We’re getting engaged soon and we’d like to run our engagement announcement in our local newspaper. They do that routinely, but every so often we find out that a friend’s announcement didn’t print. We think that maybe they didn’t follow the newspaper’s procedure, so we want to do it right. What are the guidelines?”

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