Ok, for my engagement story. We've been dating for 7 years total, I moved in with him for 4 years, then we moved into an apartment with a roommate for 2 years after that. I ended up in surgery just before we were due to move into our first apartment, and was staying with my mother for aftercare.
On my first day in the apartment after the move I was joking with him about setting a date for getting married, as I sometimes did. He went along with the conversation, to my surprise, but I still thought he was just going along with my joke. After going back to my parents, I told her mother of the peculiar conversation, whom then told my aunt. He came to visit me the next day, as he did every day during my recovery. I explained to him how I was upset, because I was joking about setting a date, and now I think my mother thought it is a reality and I didn't know what to do.
He then told me he wasn't joking about setting the date, he had been serious. After spending those nights alone in their apartment without me, he realized how much he couldn't live without me. That it was suppose to be their apartment, that was just theirs, no one else's, and he wasn't suppose to be there alone. He was going to propose, but since I already brought up the date, he just went with it.
I'm so excited I want to announce it on FB, but according to forum and most websites, many people dislike this. Most people, that I know of, do not read the announcement section of the newspaper regularly, so how would they know?
I was thinking of sending out an announcement of engagement in the newspaper, and my father wanted to post the announcement on facebook. Is this wrong?
Update: Well, of course I would notify my immediate family. I am currently waiting for him to talk to his siblings first before changing our status. I also set up a Wedding Planning group on FB, so I could share ideas off the newsfeed to those that want to hear about it.
Wedding Date: 7/20/2014
Met in 2001, starting dating in 2005, engaged in 2012.