If you want to celebrate this wonderful occasion, there is no reason why you cannot! Your engagement is a huge milestone in your lives, and one that should be remembered with fond memories. Why not share it with your family and friends, with a lovely engagement celebration, be it a casual fun party or even a formal gala event. You can start with your engagement invitations to build up to the excitement.

Types of Engagement Parties

There are many types of engagement parties out there, depending on the personalities of the couple. There is everything for everyone, and it can be casual to formal. You could host a formal lunch, simple afternoon tea party or even a cocktail party if you want to make things formal and elegant, but also you could opt for the likes of events such as a casual barbeque, a summer picnic, a themed party or even make it a surprise for the couple and just have fun.

Themes and Variety of Engagement Invites

Depending on the type of party, you are hoping to have, the theme and the variety of your designs for your engagement invitations can take after it. Let us look at each type of engagement theme and style, to suggest great types of engagement invites for your special milestone.

Afternoon Tea Party

Afternoon tea parties are lovely, and quite relaxed and definitely formal. If you and your fiancé want to host such a party, there is no reason why you cannot. For a theme such as this, you can stick to pastel hues and floral designs for your engagement invites. Alternatively, even add in little snacks, and cupcakes to add to illustrations for the front facing.

Cocktail Party

Cocktail parties are fun for both the groom and bride to be, because they can mix it up and mingle with all their friends and family, in a fun, upbeat and sophisticated environment. You can use varying colours, and décor, and you can opt for a modern look to your engagement invite.

Formal Lunch

A formal affair, be it lunch or dinner, can be something elegant and beautiful, just like the union and this milestone. Your engagement invite can definitely be transcendent to the invites you are planning to have for your wedding, to link everything together in a beautiful way.

Casual Barbeque

If you want something homely, there is nothing better than a barbeque to unwind with your friends and family. Your engagement invites can be fun, colourful, and casual, with rustic touches to reflect the kind of party you are hosting.

Summer Picnic

A summer picnic is ideal for your engagement, especially if you want it to be a beautiful and personal event. You can host it in your backyard and decorate it with summertime scenes, adding flora to match the season and your personalities. Your engagement invites can have warm colours and beautiful flowers to emphasize on this fact.

Themed Parties

Parties that follow themes are great because there are so many options you can choose from when you come up with this idea. You can use a Mardi Gras theme, a Hollywood Silver Screen theme, and so much. Depending on your theme, you can style your engagement invites after them.

Try out these options for your engagement party and make it a hit right from the start with your invites. Good luck!

Did you fiancé propose to you on bended knee and now you are contemplating everything that you need to do before the big day, and all those costs and expenses related to your wedding is just piling up and you are at your wits end with everything? Well, don’t fret, because there are some ways in which you can take the budget route, and save a few bucks here and there from your wedding budget. DIY weddings are quite the thing nowadays and are quite fun to put to work.

When you take a DIY project for your wedding, there are many things you can undertake from the likes of the decor to the wedding invitations and stationary. Today, we will look into how DIY wedding invitations come together, and what you should always keep in mind when you opt to DIY your wedding invites.

Have a Plan

This could mean anything from know what you want in terms of whom to invite, how you want to word your wedding invitation, to what it will look like. If you have already sent out a save the date card, you might have put some thought into the invitation suite (because usually, the wedding invitations and other stationary follow the same theme, just to tie things from your special together seamlessly). However, if you had not thought about a theme when you sent out the Save the Date cards or you haven’t thought of what you want for your invites for your wedding to look like, this is the time. Figure out your colours scheme, your guest list and the tone you want to compliment, and note those items down (some says it’s a great idea to have a Wedding Planning booklet).

The Materials for Your DIY Wedding Invitations

When you are going to DIY the wedding invites, you will need materials, and part of those will be decided during the planning phase, where you decide and envision the end product. Now, in this stage, you should acquire those very materials and have them with you. One way of doing that is by buying all the primary materials, from sheets of paper, stencils, stamps, pens, and even accessories. The other way is to search for some invitations retailers who supply DIY wedding invitations material kits so all you need to do is buy them and then you could move onto the stage of adding all the other items. Some wedding invitations retailers have options to print out the entire guest list before having it delivered which saves you a great deal of time when it comes to doing them yourself.

Getting Down to the Business of DIY

If you are opting to start from scratch, make sure you consider the sizing factors, by cutting the paper to invitation sizes and also make sure you either acquire envelopes the size of standard invitations or opt to make them yourself. When making the envelopes, remember to keep some space that allows you to fit in all the invitation accessories into it. Once, you have cut out the materials, make sure you get a clean fold, have the necessary invitation wording printed or use the services of a calligrapher, and finally add your accessories.

DIY is an easy, especially if you have a game plan or in other words a vision. When you know what you want, the ultimate goal is a breeze. In terms of DIY invitations, it’s quite easy. However, this may differ depending on the type of DIY invites you are hoping to come up with. For DIY formal invitations, you will need to have some insight into what you need to think about in your bag of tricks, before you embark on this quest.

When considering a formal invite, you need to make it elegant, and the final output should be one that you will be proud to say you have made it yourself.

Paper
You need paper that is sturdy and will not crease easily. When purchasing DIY material kits, ensure that you go quality paper and also know what dimensions you will need depending on the sizes. When acquiring DIY kits, you should also purchase envelopes thus making sure that they match and you will avoid the hassle of having to make one yourself. But in case you are, make sure you always start with the envelope as you need it to be bigger than the intended DIY invitation so that it fits well.

Colour
Formal DIY invitations can be anything that you want them to be, but formality has its standards and one is that these invitations need to be elegant as well. Elegant DIY wedding invitations need to blend well together, without making it an eye sore. How you do this is by selecting colours and shades that are cool and soothing to the eye, for example, greens, blues and other colours from the rainbow that tends to lean more towards pastel colours. However, you can add white and black into the mix, as they are considered idea colours for formal events.

Style
When you’re in need of DIY formal invitations, the style of it all is entirely up to you. Making sure you keep a sense of elegance intact, you may opt for many themes or inspirations, such as floral, photographic, or even contemporary. The trick is to make it not too flashy or over-done. Simplistic and minimalist styles and designs go a long way with DIY formal invitations.  Opt out of adding accessories, especially if they are too ‘dazzling’. You want to try to be subtle and elegant.

Fonts
Fonts play a great role in the outcome of your DIY formal invitations. It’s always best to stick to one type of font if you want to get the wordings printed, that is either san-serif or serif. Then there are script fonts which lean more towards calligraphy. Script font or handwriting would be ideal for formal invitation, as it gives it a dignified look.

With insight such as those mentioned above, your DIY formal invitations should be a breeze. Also, do not forget that your wording needs to follow the general etiquette that is considered mandatory for formal events.