Engagement
An engagement is a wonderful time in anyone's life. How often do you ask or get asked to marry, right? Just imagine the moment, the right moment when the question is popped - a "yes" is like a fireworks display in your head. From your engagement, there is nothing but your future and happiness with the one you love ahead.
The joy in your engagement is usually not kept to yourself too long. How can you, really?! You're brimming with excitement and perhaps some anxiety. An engagement is a very big step. Promising yourself to one person, and one person only, can naturally give you the jitters. But then again, the engagement also means that you can look forward to a full life together with your loved one. Before long, you would be sharing news about your engagement to family, best friends and the rest of the world. It's the natural thing to do, you are just so happy about the engagement!
The Engagement Party
Often, to celebrate a couple engagement, an engagement party is help. And nope, this is not the wild party each person gets to spend separately right before getting hitched! This is the engagement party with family and intimate friends, where in your share the news about your engagement.
The engagement party usually brings about a lot of awkward and memorable moments. Maybe you have a drunken uncle who will share a toast in the most improper of moments. That's alright - it's your engagement and it's a party! Maybe you have close friends who will cry at your engagement. Cry with envy? Probably not - with joy, most likely. Your friends have always been there for you, as you went through the ups and downs of being in a relationship.
Come to think of it, this engagement has got to be the hilt in your relationship. This is the ultimate - the goal, if you can say. Because, next to marriage, where else can a relationship lead. Marriage is, all together, a different level, the next step. This engagement not only celebrates your couplehood. It also rejoices the triumph of having made it this far, through the usual problems and trials of partners, and still be together, loving each other.
It is just right to be happy right now. And people you love and care about are just wonderful be around to share this joy with you. At your engagement party, lift up your glass and toast to yourself and your partner, and the love you have in your life!
