Something wonderful just happened in your life! Yep, he did it! He proposed. Or maybe you did! You go, girl! You are now engaged! Congratulations! You must be elated, on top of the world, and excited about the future. You need to tell your family and friends, and what better way to do it than with a lovely party. Get your engagement invitations ready, find a lovely or fun way to put it and get it all down in your invitation wording and send it off for all of them to join in on the happiness.

There are many styles, designs, themes and tones your engagement invitations can look and take after. If you prefer being traditional, or rather want to make it fun and quirky like your personalities, then you should make it so. Consider the styles and design, and the underlying theme of your invite card for your engagement, and then add your own twist with what to write on it.

Traditional Engagement Invitations

A traditional engagement invitation is usually simple and elegant, with a lovely colour choice that is easy on the eyes with a design element, either as a border or a decorative trim. This can be lace, flourishes or even simple stripes. Usually the colours complement one another, but if you wish to add a modern twist to it, you can opt for a contrasting colour such as black design elements on a taupe backdrop.

Typography designs are a favourite, though it can be modernised easily for a very elegant look, whilst photo engagement invitations are also quite the popular item due to their keepsake nature. Whichever you choose, the fact remains that a traditional engagement invitation, is carried with a tone, whether you opt to be strictly traditional or you add a modern touch to your engagement invitations, you can word them with etiquette in mind.

Fun Engagement Invitations

A modern and quirky engagement invitation is light-hearted and less formal. You can have fun and crazy photograph engagement invitations which can be given to your invitees as keepsakes, or opt to feature quirky illustrations, doodles and designs that reflect the personalities of the couple beautifully. To complete the design that you have chosen for the engagement invitation, you can continue it with the tone of voice with an invitation wording such as the ones below.