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When he finally asks, who are you going to tell?

Jessie702

Jessie702

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Being im havgins some family issues right now, it got me thinking. When your SO finally proposes, who do you think you will tell? I know for me, you ladies are up there on the list, along with a close freind Nikki, and Linda, than of course our friends, but after that i dont know who else.
 
well.. my parents, you ladies of course, my lovebird BB (sorry I love her so much), and my friends. I dunno how I'll tell my friends though. For the closer ones, I'll call them. Other people, I'll just txt them or they'll find out on my facebook status. :D
 
Hehe..i forgot, im gonna tell ym puppies too...but im sure, Daddy would have tried to explain to them already.
 
Absolutely anybody that with listen to me!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

Definitely my parents first, then my sisters, next it'll be close friends and PS!! Anyone else I'll probably just text. Sorry your having family issues Jessie, I hope it all works out for you.
 
awww.. My bf is actually scared of BB. She does bite sometimes. She just doesn't bite me. (Of course, I'm her mommy :love: ) I really want my bf to get along with her since she's going to be living with us when we're married. He will be BB's daddy. I'm always like "single parent is hard, BB needs a daddy and I want to see you guys get along." Throughout our almost 6-yr relationship, my bF would only let BB step onto her finger 2-3 times. Last week, he let her step on his finger 'cuz he has to hold onto her while I was doing stuff for him. That was so cute. Recently, he talks to BB in a baby voice and ask her to wave and she'll wave. He would be laughing and stuff. He's so cute when he talks to BB. I was happy that they're getting along.

BB didn't like my last bf. She would walk to his shoes and poop. HA!
How are your puppies with your SO?
 
Im sorry about your family issues, especially when u do get engaged and u want to share your happiness :(

I will tell my family and his family, well obvisouly he would tell them, and id text some friends, and the remainder of my not so close friends will see it on my facebook as well. haha

Hope everything works out!
 
Well everyone will know before me haha, but I'll call my parents and my siblings. Probably we'll call his parents but it will depend on the time because they are in another country and for the most part, their day is our night. And I'll call my grandmother. I dont know if I'll tell my friends with a phone call. Maybe a text message or a facebook message or something. And of course my kitties!!! But I'll have to wait to see them, because I won't be able to call them :lol: Can't wait for that moment!!
 
Well everyone will know before me haha, but I'll call my parents and my siblings. Probably we'll call his parents but it will depend on the time because they are in another country and for the most part, their day is our night. And I'll call my grandmother. I dont know if I'll tell my friends with a phone call. Maybe a text message or a facebook message or something. And of course my kitties!!! But I'll have to wait to see them, because I won't be able to call them :lol: Can't wait for that moment!!
 
My parents in person and his parents over skype because they live so far away, my best friend in person if possible or over the phone, I'll let you girls know so I can bump most of you up a spot, I'd infom my siblings at the next family dinner or my parents will tell them, and with my other friends I might just tell them next time I see them which would hopefully be soon (I'd probably just let them notice the ring ;)) because it would amuse me) and I wouldn't facebook it for atleast a week so everyone that's important to us can be in the know before random friends from highschool etc.

Least looking forward to telling my sister (because she's miss negitivity) and my mum (who will probably worry I'm too young).
 
Since he proposed after 10pm, we didn't immediately call anyone. But we did change our status to "engaged" on Facebook, and pretty much everyone found out that way. Mostly I think we're just lazy. My BFF was out of the country anyway (she found out almost immediately on Fbook, haha). Even though I make fun of Fbook all the time for various reasons, that sure was handy for me, since I hate calling people and people probably would have never found out without that.
 
Sorry about your family issues! Hope it all gets better

This subject came up recently for me too because one of my close friends said "you better not text me your engaged" since she wants a phone call. I just prefer to text.. maybe I am lazy. So now I guess I will call my Mom and he his parents and then I will call my closest girls and then post on here and facebook.

Cant wait for that day :::: SIGH ::::
 
First will be my parents and my sis (my best friend), then my other sisters and my grandma, then close friends and all you wonderful ladies on pricescope. Oh and of course my baby Holly (my dog) will be one of the first lol :bigsmile:
 
Thank you all for the well wishes...

He gets along Great with the doggies..hehe, they are at his house......he just gets along okay with the cats at my house...we are gonna have a zoo...

I didnt even think about facebook...that migth eb the way to go...lol
 
I will call close family and then post on FB...might call a few friends too :)

and of course I will post on PS with MANY pics of the ring!
 
We called our parents first. We got engaged late in the evening, but my neighbors who are also like family knew that SO was going to propose so they waited up for us and we got to tell them about it. Then we texted a few friends before going to bed. The following day, we updated it on FB and that's how everyone else found out.
 
Quick funny story about changing the status on facebook- A few weeks ago I realized my bf and I both had our facebooks saying "in a relationship" but they didn't say with each other on our profiles. I figured it's time to finally link them via names. After I posted the update, I was getting an unusual amount of congratulatory posts, which I found puzzling since almost all friends already know him and it's been 2 and a half years that we've been together. I took a closer look and realized something else had changed while updating this.
Completely by accidental (I swear!!!) somehow I managed to click "engaged" as the relationship status, without realizing this until all the messages/posts were flooding in. I was so embarrased- bright red with tears from laughing so hard. I started to do some damage control and notify the supportive friends of my mistake and then the phone started to ring. Major facebook faux pas! My BF wasn't home at the time, luckily when I called to tell him of my freudian slip of an accident, he thought it was hysterical. Woops! Luckily only a handful of people saw it in the 30 seconds it was up. Have to admit, my mistake felt kind of good for the few seconds I saw that new title. Soon enough, one hopes!

I echo what you've already said- definitely all sets of parents are first notified, even though I'm pretty sure they will all know. Next on the list is my grandma and then my closest friends via phone or in person if I can go without spilling while setting up plans. text messages to the masses and of course, the REAL fbook update.
 
hahahaha peach that made me laugh out loud (i think my boyfriend thinks im weird, i sit on here and laugh out loud all the time) haha.. Thats so funny ... it happens to the best of us!
 
I've been thinking about this too..

But so far I've decided on this order (which will probably chanage because I'll be blubbering )

My mom via the phone even though she'll already know.
My brother who lives with my mom : P in the same call.
My best friend, cousin, and his sisters in a picture text.
Everyone else via facebook : P
 
We were in Barcelona so we phoned my parents, his parents and then he decided to ring about 10 of our best friends. Our phone bill was hundreds of euro by the time he'd told everyone. We texted all of our other good friends and the word spread that way.
 
When my dh proposed we didn't tell anyone till the next day. I liked keeping it to ourselves to enjoy for the day before we shared our happy news with family. The first people I told were my parents and then my sister and then gradually my friends. My parents (well my mom) were pissed we didn't drive over there as soon as it happened to share it with them right away! I just wanted some time to get used to the idea of being engaged and enjoying it b/w us for a while- KWIM?
 
My parent, sis and you love ladies. Then I'll probably call all my close friends and family. Everyone else will read it on FB.
 
I just got to do this :):):)

here's what i did:

I made a note on my iphone and created 2 lists. a list of people that needed to be called (parents, best friends, family) and then a list of people that needed to be texted (close friends). Everyone else found out on facebook a couple days later. I got engaged around noon on the 4th of July, and we were having so much fun we didn't call anyone (besides my mom) until the next day. I kinda pictured myself going crazy calling/and texting as soon as it happened, but we we're really enjoying ourselves and it was neat that it was just a secret the 2 of us knew. If that makes any sense?? We both just enjoyed the whole day by ourselves and it was fabulous. The next day when i finally started I called everyone on the call list first, and then texted everyone else. It took a good 5 hours to call/text everybody! I updated my facebook a couple days later, and everyone else saw it then. I wanted to make sure I told everyone important in person (or as in person as you can be over the phone) so nobody found out over facebook and got their feelings hurt.
 
My family, my closest friends, and you guys. Besides that...everyone else can find out on FB. I'm still trying to think of some kind of creative way to tell my friends when it happens
 
*falls off her chair giggling* Oh my... I almost made that mistake on facebook once ::)

This is the list and order of the people I'm going to tell:

1. Momma (though she'll already know)
2. Friend 1 (my sis-a-ma-ter) :halo:
3. Friend 2
4. Friend 3
5. You ladies and my lovely Ajah on the Dragonmount forums
5. Facebook people due to status change
6. Nursing school friends/acquaintances (that will find out because of the FB status)
 
I told my parents, my cousin (because I was at her house when I decided to propose to him, hehe) and my best friend. Beyond that, I was totally selfish and kept it to myself for several days. I told a few remaining family members, and then everyone else found out via fb.
 
Hi. . ladies!

I actually have the same concern I am not close to my family and to be honest have contemplated not including them in the wedding (my SO is appalled by me even thinking it) but they just generally are negative people. .. I would rather let them find out by word of mouth .. . I see them instead of saying "oh! congrats!!!" it being more like.. ."oh are ya'll ready to get married?" and asking other questions that can be turned into negative comments. . .

BUT. . .on the happy side. .. I'll tell my gram, son and close friends (who are the family I wasn't lucky enough to share a bloodline with) lol . .there are others who have been so supportive of our relationship whom he and I are close to as a couple. . we'd tell them as well.
Others will find out via facebook and word of mouth =)
 
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