75 heartfelt engagement captions to help you ace the announcement (2024)

It's the moment you've been waiting for since the day you met: your partner got down on one knee and asked you to spend the rest of your lives together. (Obviously, the answer is yes.)

Once you and your future spouse have finished popping champagne, calling your parents, and admiring your new sparkler, you'll want to share news of the proposal with your extended family and friends.

Rather than calling or texting everyone you know individually, sharing your news on social media with an engagement caption is a perfect way to spread the excitement.

That's why we've compiled a list of engagement captions that are perfect for every type of relationship and proposal photo.

If you and your partner are rom-com buffs, music aficionados, or book lovers, these engagement captions will help you tell your unique love story. And if you’re looking for inspiration from the stars, check out some celebrity engagement captions from big names like Justin Bieber, Ciara, and Ed Sheeran.

You can't go wrong with lyrics from a classic love song, or a famous quote from one of literature's greatest romances.

Whether you're in search of something sweet or a funny engagement captions that will garner all the giggles, look no further than this list of engagement captions to help you share news of your joy.

Funny engagement captions

• “Give the lady what she wants!” — Marshall Field
• Well, it’s official. I can no longer dance to Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies.”
• Does this ring make me look engaged?
• Engaged to the love of my life and disengaged from reality.

• Who needs sleep when you’ve got a wedding to plan?
• Look who decided to put up with me forever!
• You probably saw this one coming, but I can still post a picture, right?
• Sorry folks, I’m off the market.
• Finally an ex-girlfriend/ex-boyfriend.

• I found the person I want to annoy for all of my days.
• Probably should have gotten a manicure.
• Diamonds may be a girl’s best friend, but this guy is my forever.
• Today’s weather forecast is sparkly with a 100% chance of “yes.”

Romantic engagement captions

• “In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” — Maya Angelou
• The easiest question I’ve ever been asked.
• The first day of the rest of our lives starts today.
• “Love to faults is always blind, / Always to joy inclin’d / Lawless, wing’d, and unconfin’d / And breaks all chains from every mind.” — William Blake
• You make love so easy.

• “So we grew together, / Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, / But yet an union in partition; / Two lovely berries molded on one stem.” — William Shakespeare
• In the dance of life, I only want you as a partner.
• “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.” — John Keats
• “When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” — “When Harry Met Sally”
• Here’s to the next chapter of my favorite love story.

• “When two souls are one, they hear each other, even in silence.” ― Matshona Dhliwayo
• “May you live to be 100, and may the last voice you hear be mine.” ― Frank Sinatra
• I couldn’t dream up a better partner. Cheers to forever, my love.
• I can’t wait to walk down the aisle to you.
• “Everything that grows / Holds in perfection but a little moment.” — William Shakespeare

• "i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart)" — E.E. Cummings
• “Love — is anterior to Life — / Posterior — to death — / Initial of Creation, and / The Exponent of Earth.” — Emily Dickinson
• I’m so grateful today and every day that I get to go through life with you. Here’s to forevermore.
• You make every moment special, and I’m so grateful we’ll be spending the rest of our moments together.
• “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” ― Hermann Hesse
• I can’t wait to choose you every day for the rest of my life. I’m so lucky to be engaged to such an incredible person.

Short engagement captions

• You complete me.
• Our love story is my favorite.
• From “me” to “we.”

• Two hearts, one life to live.
• He put a ring on it.
• The best is yet to come.
• We found our forever.

• In your arms, I’ve found my home.
• It’s always been you.
• So this happened…
• I choose you.

Celebrity engagement captions

• “I Feel Complete.” — Ciara
• “My love, I’m beyond excited to marry you ... every day I’ve spent with you has been a dream come true and I can’t wait to love and cherish you forever. Here’s to the rest of our lives.” — Demi Lovato
• “so happy. i love our steady love.” — Hannah Brown
• “Still couldn’t tell ya everything I said down on one knee ... All I know is she said “YES”! We’re so excited!” — Cole Swindell
• “Was gonna wait a while to say anything but word travels fast, listen plain and simple Hailey I am soooo in love with everything about you! So committed to spending my life getting to know every single part of you loving you patiently and kindLY. — Justin Bieber
• “Got myself a fiancé just before new year. We are very happy and in love, and our cats are chuffed as well xx” — Ed Sheeran
• “BRIDE be dang’d, y’all. My best friend, @arnold.cam, asked me to marry him, and I announced it at my favorite place in the world, @opry. I didn’t know happiness and excitement like this existed. I can’t wait to be Mrs. Cameron Scott Arnold.” — Lauran Alaina
• “Forever starts now!!!” — Zooey Deschanel and Jonathan Scott
• the greatest moment of my entire life was saying “yes” to spending the rest of ours together. this past month of being your fiancé and being in our own little world of just us two has been so perfect and i wish i could never leave this time. i never thought i would ever meet a man like you or someone so selfless and filled with so much love to give. — Noah Cyrus
• “This magical, beautiful, kaleidoscope of a person asked me to marry him this weekend. I did not know life could be this sweet or I could ever be this deliriously happy. I am so proud of the life we have built together and the people we have become over the last few years. This love is so big and so uniquely ours and I know it can do anything. I am so honored to stand next to you every day. I love you, Jack.” — Emily Osment

Engagement captions from song lyrics

• “I love you always forever / Near or far, closer together / Everywhere I will be with you / Everything I will do for you.” — Donna Lewis, “I Love You Always Forever”
• “This will be an everlasting love / This will be the one I’ve waited for.” — Natalie Cole, “This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)”
• To riff on Taylor Swift, it’s a love story and baby, I just said “yes.”
• “It’s always better when we’re together.” — Jack Johnson, "Better Together"
• “Two in love can face the world together. Hearts that cuddle up will muddle through. The world may rock and rumble, crowds may groan and grumble, Thrones may even tumble too. Darling, two in love can face the stormy weather, laugh aloud at every cloud above. And so we’ll show them all what love can do, for you and I are two in love.” — Frank Sinatra, "Two in Love"

• “’Cause all of me, loves all of you.” — John Legend, "All of Me"
• As Barbra Streisand sings, “for whatever my man is, I am his forever more.”
• “I hope you don’t mind, I hope you don’t mind, that I put down in words, how wonderful life is, while you’re in the world.” — Elton John, “Your Song”
• “Always and forever, each moment with you, is just like a dream to me that somehow came true.” — Heatwave / Luther Vandross, "Always and Forever"
• “The first, my last, my everything. And the answer to all my dreams. You’re my sun, my moon, my guiding star. My kind of wonderful, that’s what you are.” — Barry White, "You're the First, the Last, My Everything"
• “Like a river flows, surely to the sea, darling, so it goes, some things are meant to be.” — Elvis Presley, "Can't Help Falling in Love"

• “All you need is love,” The Beatles once said. And I’ve found it forever.
• As Aerosmith croons, “I don’t want to miss a thing.” And now I’ll never have to.
• “’Cause he knows a lot about love and stuff and he’s gonna marry me.” — Dolly Parton, "Marry Me"
• “I never did believe in miracles, but I’ve a feeling it’s time to try …And I don’t have to tell you but you’re the only one. You, you make loving fun.” — Fleetwood Mac, "You Make Loving Fun"
• “Where you end and where I begin is like a river going through.” — Dave Matthews Band, “Grace Is Gone”

• “From this moment, life has begun. From this moment, you are the one.” — Shania Twain, “From This Moment On”
• “Let’s, let’s stay together … Lovin’ you whether, whether times are good or bad, happy or sad.” — Al Green, “Let's Stay Together”
• “There’s no need to complicate, our time is short, this is our fate, I’m yours.” — Jason Mraz, “I'm Yours”
• “I will become yours and you will become mine. I choose you.” — Sara Bareilles, “I Choose You”