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Your engagement is one of the most important times in your life. How do you salute it with engagement toasts? Simple…

Once you have decided that married life is right for you, you will want to share your decision with your family and friends. Your friends will want to raise a toast to your happiness with your bride to be.

Many couples like to have a big post engagement get together to share their good news with their friends and family. Once you have started your engagement and begun making your wedding plans, you will want to have your friends, especially those who will actually be in the wedding, over for a special dinner. Your best man may want to toast your success and wish you a long happy life together.

Make sure you send out announcements to all your family and friends to notify them of your engagement and let them know the wedding date if one has been set. It is customary for the groom’s parents and bride’s parents to get together and toast the happiness of their children. The marriage of their children is one of the happiest moments in a parent’s life; they will want to share in your joy.

You and your fiancé will also want to get together with your best friends to toast your engagement. These engagement toasts can be simple or elaborate, and the get together can be casual or formal. It is all up to you. It is your moment and you should be comfortable both with the toasts and the location.

If you are the one preparing the toasts, it can be a stressful situation. The task of proving the toasts often falls to the person chosen to be the best man at the wedding. If this is you, you will want to make sure the toasts you choose are both witty and appropriate. You probably know the groom to be quite well, and you may want to share some stories or anecdotes pulled from your long history together. You most likely also know the bride to be quite well, and you can use what your know about her to provide beautiful, touching toasts during your engagement.

An engagement is always a very happy occasion, as is the wedding to follow. Your decision to go through life with your soul mate is an important one, and your family and friends will want to share in your and your fiancé’s happiness and joy. Including your best friends and family in your engagement can multiply your joy and bring joy to them as well.

Four years ago, before we were married, my husband and I who were both studying geology at the time went out on a trip to Nevada to collect crystals and precious stones. On one of the more fruitful days we had, I happened upon a large (and beautiful!) piece of fire opal, which happens to be my birth stone.

When I showed it to him, he stood for a second, looked at me, and said, “Just what I was looking for.” When I asked him why, he told me he brought me out there to find the stone that would be my wedding ring! Six months later, the opal that I found was on my finger, and I was a very happy girl.