When it comes to family and marriage proposals, here is something that you may want to consider: This is the first step in joining your two families. Understanding this, you can see how it can be a good idea to include family in proposal plans. This is not a requirement, but can often prove to be a very nice gesture that will assist in the transition of merging families. Both you and your mate are a product of your families and will usually have many future dealings with each other’s relatives after the wedding. Your inclusion of family, either immediate or distant, may be a way to ease a potentially rough integration. Especially with kids, your addition of them into the proposal plans will be a great experience that shows their importance in the new family. But, it is not only kids that can benefit from being a part of the special event. Her parents or yours may be thrilled at the opportunity to share a life changing experience and others may be just as eager to be a part. If you are able to incorporate a plan that can meet your mates proposal desires and get family involved, you may just get extra “points” from your mate. Especially if she is very close to her family, it may be just the thoughtful act that assures her that you are the man that she will spend the rest of her life. When you can’t directly involve the family, you can get creative with ways to share the event with them like photos or video. These will allow you two to share this special time in your lives with the other important people that matter. The more that you find ways to share with family, the easier the joining of the families may become.