The packaging of ferro-electric liquid crystal over silicon (FLCOS) microdisplays presents itself as a formidable challenge to the package designer. The overall assembly should be lightweight, rugged, and incorporate the display engine, the illumination unit and the viewing optics. Good optical performance of the displays depends on many variables that need to be optimised. The silicon chip acts as part of an optical device and so standard packaging procedures are not readily applicable. In particular, the silicon chip requires significant post-processing to ensure it is both smooth and flat even after assembly. Selection of a suitable packaging strategy is key to success. In this paper we evaluate various methods of first level packaging of the silicon display engine.