How to get your wedding announcement into the society pages

Learn how to get your wedding announcement into the society pages.

If having your wedding announced in the society pages is important to you, and your relatives didn’t come over on the Mayflower, here’s what you’ll need to do.

You Will Need

* An excellent picture of the bridal couple
* A flair for embellishment
* Networking skills
* A high-profile volunteer position
* Noteworthy achievements
* Impressive careers
* Respectable addresses
* A cute meeting story
* A grand proposal

Step 1. Follow the rules

Find out the newspaper’s submission guidelines and follow them to the letter. Editors are busy, and they’re going to toss your application right into the bin if it’s missing critical information, is incorrectly formatted, or arrives after the deadline.

Step 2. See eye-to-eye

Send a photo in which the eyebrows of you and your betrothed are on the exact same level, with your heads close together.

Step 3. Be charitable

If you’re involved with a charitable organization, mention it. If you’re not, do your best to get your behind on a do-gooder board before submitting your wedding announcement.

Step 4. Mention achievements

If you or your intended has done something worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize, the Guinness Book of World Records, or even a spot in the circus, mention it.

Step 5. Tweak job titles

Make everyone’s job—you, that of your beloved, and those of your parents—sound as impressive as possible.

Step 6. Be geographically desirable

Proceed cautiously when providing addresses.

Step 7. Include a meet-cute story

If how you met was cute, say so—newspapers eat those up. An unusual proposal works, too.

Step 8. Network

Ask everyone you know if they know anyone even remotely connected to the society pages. Someone who could do you a favor—or blackmail someone else.

Step 9. Get over it