You’re getting married, congratulations! You’re obviously incredibly excited to share this news with everyone and the logical next step is to send out some beautiful engagement party invitations to family, friends and colleagues.

However, creating the right letter to send to everyone can be a difficult task, especially if you’re a perfectionist! There are so many design elements to consider that it can seem overwhelming and this pressure can be made even worse if you’ve already organised a date for your announcement.

If you’re struggling with the finer points of creating your engagement party invitations, take a look at the following tips. Hopefully they will help you in creating the perfect letter that will get everyone excited and keen to attend.

 

1: Get to the point

One of the biggest mistakes people make with their engagement party invitations is writing a letter that’s filled with useless information that makes discovering the important details difficult for the reader. Remember what the point of the letter is; to let people know when and where the announcement celebration is.

Filling the letter with lots of unnecessary information, like a story of how you and your partner met or a reason why you chose the specific date, is just going to annoy people who are looking for the details. While including that kind of information may seem endearing, it’s not useful in terms of the function of you engagement party invitations.

You want people to be excited to attend the event, not bored to death trying to figure out when it even takes place. Keep your letter succinct and save the stories for the actual occasion.

 

2: Choose a design that matches your personality as a couple

When it comes to the actual aesthetic of your engagement party invitations, it makes sense to go with a visual style that reflects your personality as a couple. While many design styles will look great in templates, how appropriate are they for your and your partner’s wedding announcement?

While you can always get away with going with a classical style, you may be missing out on an opportunity to really write a letter that’s unique to you as a couple. Try and choose colours and patterns that are true to both of your interests or have some connection to your lives.

For example, if you are both beach-loving people then you might want to choose something with an aquatic theme. If you’re met from a shared interest in science fiction, why not go with something space-themed?

Having a design that really screams “you” is going to make your engagement party invitations really special. Some of your guests may even keep the letter as a memento because of how beautiful it is.

 

3: Choose the perfect ampersand

If you haven’t noticed, most engagement party invitations will use an ampersand “&” to separate the names of the happy couple. This may seem like a small point, but it can actually prove to be one of the most crucial design choices of the entire letter.

You want to pick an ampersand that suits the visual theme of the letter but also has its own special personality. There’s no shortage of amazing ampersands to choose from with many fonts specifically chosen for the quality of the ampersand they have.

Make sure that it matches well with the typeface you have used in the rest of the letter and that it isn’t too big or too small.

Hopefully the above tips will help you to create amazing engagement party invitations that get your guests excited and that match your unique personality as a marrying couple.