Will You Say “Yes?” 5 Fun Ways to Capture Your Engagement Details

Tis’ the season to get engaged! While many associate November and December with being the holiday season, the Washington Post reports that it’s also a popular time of year to pop the question. In fact, according to our Bethesda, Maryland neighbor, WeddingWire, 33 percent of engagements happen between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day.

For most, a marriage proposal is a once-in-a-lifetime event. Whether it takes place on a Ferris wheel at an amusement park, in Paris underneath the Eiffel Tower, on a secluded sandy beach or in the kitchen at your apartment, it’s a special moment. And it’s a story that you will treasure forever and tell and retell to friends, family, strangers and acquaintances — and possibly your future children. Heck, even we want to know!

And as with every good story, the details matter. Where were you when he popped the question? How did it happen? Who was there? What did he (or she) say? Did he get down on one knee? Was it funny? Was he nervous? Were you surprised? You obviously said “yes!” So let’s see the ring!

No matter when or where it happens, marriage proposals are unique, romantic and personal stories that are truly one-of-a-kind. So why not commemorate the event in an equally original way? Consider the following five suggestions for capturing your engagement story in a way that makes it fun to share today, tomorrow and for years to come:

1. Put on an engaging performance. Lights, camera, action! Turn YouTube into WeTube by creating a video that reenacts or documents the day he put a ring on it. Need inspiration? Simply search the YouTube database, and you’ll find thousands of examples. Isaac’s Live Lip-Dub Proposal is one of our favorites.
2. Kiss and tell. Preserve the moment with an engagement scrapbook that commemorates the big event. Include tickets, receipts, photos, cocktail napkins — anything and everything that connects you with that special day. You may also want to include pictures and memorabilia that chronicle your “dating days” — how you met, your first date, etc.
3. Who wrote the Book of Love? You did! Get your story down on paper in a fun creative way. Whether you write it as a short poem, a full-fledged romance novel or in the form of a letter to your future child, get the details — as well as all of your thoughts and feelings — down on paper while they’re still fresh and crisp in your mind.
4. Put a pin on it. Create a virtual scrapbook with an engagement pin board on Pinterest that visually captures all of the juicy details. Choose images and information that captures where you were, what you wore, how your felt, what the ring looks like.
5. Get more social. Go beyond Pinterest and check out HowIGotEngaged.com, a web site and Facebook app that makes it easy to post details about your engagement and share them through your social networks.

Got a creative way of your own to capture the details of an engagement? We’d love to hear about it! Tell us on our 123Print Facebook page, tweet us @123Print or give us the details below.