Saying Congratulations To A Newly Engaged Couple

Expressing your happiness and your feelings to a newly engaged couple is very important! Words of happiness, love and congratulations for a wedding engagement are best when these words come from the heart. In some cases, people prefer to write a message about the newly engaged couple, however, this can be difficult especially if you are not good with words. Here you can try these simple tips on how to express your happiness for the newly engaged couple. There are simple methods to let them know how much you care for the both of them. However, saying these words can be tricky so if that's the case, you can send them out by using SMS, e-mail, letter, or card.

Couple who will be having an engagement will surely be so happy to hear words of happiness, support, love, and thoughtfulness. There are so many ways to send your engagement wishes for your beloved friends. You may send these messages and wishes through SMS, e-mail, letter, or card. You can even make a designed item for them. You can be creative in sending these wishes to the engaged couple. Here are few of the engagement wishes you could use!

• Friends, congratulations on your engagement! We hope you'll be happy together. Stay in love!

• We wish your life to be as happy as today, on the day of your engagement. Congratulations to you both!

• From this day of your engagement until the forever may your life be full of genuine love! We are happy for the both of you!

• How can you not be in high spirits for people so much in love? Happy engagement! I am happy for you! Congratulations!

• Hold close to life and love in this new stage in togetherness. Enjoy your day!

• Growing old with the love of your life has got to be the greatest and the supreme feeling in the world.

• You've started with the engagement and now it's time for the wedding preparation. I wish you both endurance to get to that special day, and love to last a lifetime! Wish you more love!

• The beauty of love is that you get to share it together. May that love be as strong and lovely in 50 years as it is today on your engagement. Have blissful years ahead!

• Engagement is the moment between two people that makes them truly understand how important they are to each other. This is the time to cherish. Happy engagement!

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Enjoyable Games For Your Engagement Party

The engagement party is a time in the event the families of the couple will get to know one another. In some cases, this could be the first meeting involving the two families or groups of friends and any icebreaker function will be a pleasant event. During that light, whoever manages the engagement party (likely the bride's family, but it can be the engaged couple or others who wants to plan the party) should prepare a few games and activities made to help everyone become familiar with all the others.

Firstly is a trivia game. Come up with a "Trivial Pursuit" type game with questions about the bride and groom's lives. You might keep the questions to just truths and events relating to both the groom and bride (such as "How much time did it take her to say "yes" when he asked","Where did he pop the question", where did they meet, etc), or you can include questions pertaining to their lives outside of each other and before they met each other. Not only can this be fun, but also it's an entertaining way for people to become familiar with each other and the engaged couple better.

One popular icebreaker that's used at business gatherings and company parties can also perform really well at engagement parties. Tape a card to each person's back and motivate him or her to survey the room, associate with everyone and particularly attempt to get to know someone they have certainly not met before. Before getting to someone else, you'll want to make a remark about the person on the card on his or her back. Party-goers write an idea of that person, such as "she seems sweet" or "he knows a lot about the weather".

This icebreaker ends as soon as the interacting session is over. The cards are then read one by one and people not only become familiar with each other better, but have fun with reading all the remarks people put together about them. Aim to ensure that comments are complimentary or somehow presented in a favorable light. Hurtful opinions, obviously, are not applicable. If this is truly the first-time many of the guests have met, then another fun game involving the wearing of cards might be in order. In this game, each guest wears a card on their front that has their name on the front and a number on the back. They don't show to anyone what their number is. Guests entertain and chat and get acquainted with each other over the course of the evening.

Toward the finale of the evening, the cards are flipped over and the number side is shown. Everyone gets a small note and writes the numbers on the paper, then tries to designate the name of someone with their number. This fun game can be hard for people who are bad with names, but it's fun nonetheless. For a procedure that doesn't put people on the spot quite so much, consider letting the already marrieds help out the to-be marrieds. Place two pieces of poster board on the wall and mark them "advice from women" and "advice from men". This is the time to offer advice about wedding planning, not about being married. That advice can come later. Inspire guests to offer their own wedding planning advice where the recommendation from seniors at the party could be different from the younger couples in the group, making enlightening group of comments.

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Preparing for Marriage - Two Becoming One

There are many definitions of marriage today with different states and churches adding their own definitions to the mix. You, like I, are each free to follow our own definition of engagement and marriage within the laws of our state. But as for me, I choose to follow the Biblical model of marriage which is a man and a woman united together in a covenant from God (Genesis 2:24). This unity is the beginning of a family unit to which children may be added in the future but it is also a departure from your family of origin. It is in its' very nature a formation of a new relationship, a new bond, and a new unit. To better understand a Biblical marriage, some ground work needs to be laid.

In His Image. Ever wonder why God created man and woman in His image (Genesis 1:27)? Could it be that He created man and woman in His image because we are to model Him here on earth? Several times Jesus tells us that we are "a light" to the world (Matthew 5:14). Our light does not come from us, rather it comes from reflecting God's light which is never extinguished. We were created in His image to reflect His light. Why you ask? So that even in our relationships, in our most important relationship such as marriage, His image and His light can be seen.

Intentionally Created. Looking back over Genesis 2, we see that man was created out of dust and woman was created out of the rib of man. Men and woman are literally created differently. God could have created them the same way but He did not. This is not just a physical difference, but a difference in purpose and design as well. Why you ask? Each of us has a different role in life. When we look at the trinity of God: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, each part of the trinity has a different role to play. One of the many roles is the Father as the Creator, the Son Jesus as the sacrifice, and the Holy Spirit as a guide. You do not see the Holy Spirit called the sacrifice because the Holy Spirit knows the role it plays in the trinity. A husband and a wife are intentionally created with different roles yet they are part of one unit.

Separation from family. In order for two to truly be united as one, they need to leave behind their family of origin. Just as there are no additional roles in the trinity, there are no additional roles in the new family unit. The new family unit consists of a husband and a wife (Genesis 2:24). Leaving parents can be a difficult task but it is an essential element for the formation of a new bond. Why you ask? As long as a parent is there to cling to in times of need, a spouse will never learn to cling to one another and the bond will not be properly formed.

Two into one. This is a great mystery which is difficult to understand until you experience it. Once we accept that our purpose in life is to reflect God's image, that we are intentionally created for a reason, that we are to leave our family of origin, then we can begin the process of becoming one with one another. Why you ask? The new bond properly reflects the relationship between God the Father, the Son Jesus, and the Holy Spirit to one another. When the marriage unit adds children, it is a perfect reflection of the trinity.

The bond of two becoming one is tightly woven and is not easily broken if formed correctly. Many of the marriage problems are centered on an improper unity of a marriage and often going back to the basics of what a marriage is can elevate some of the most difficult challenges.

Chris Hammond is a Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern at LifeWorks Group w/ over 15 years of experience as a counselor, mentor & teacher for children, teenagers & adults.

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