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!

DIY weddings are more popular than ever, and with the New Year dawning, trends for decor as well as wedding invitations has had a jumpstart to make it more and more appealing. With so much inspiration available at your fingertips, you can take your DIY wedding to another level, be it with the decor you have, the stationery and the theme you have chosen for your special day.

Brighter and Bolder

More and more people are opening up to more colour in their lives, and with the colour being forecasted for 2012 being a bold choice of Tangerine Tango, you can mix and match your favourite colours to suit your theme or vision for the wedding.

Detailing & Personalise it Your Whim

When you want to make something personal all the little details matter, especially if you go about making sure that these little details go into your wedding in the first place. Provided you do this, you can go about adding personal bits and bobs to your wedding decor and even wedding invitations. For the wedding stationery, you could add the likes of a motif or a monogram, or even a picture, and so much more. The little things matter, do not forget.

Pocket Wedding Invitations

Pocket wedding invitations are always so convenient, when it comes down to organising all the wedding invitation accessories and ensuring all the necessary information and stationery are sent across to the invitees. This great option will continue on to the new year as well.

Be Eco-Friendly

As most of the populace of the globe is going green or becoming eco-friendly and it is about time lots of other folk got on board too. Opt for recycled paper, and other recyclables for use in your DIY wedding decor or even DIY wedding invitations.

Watercolours

There is something truly beautiful about using watercolours, where it entwines various colours together. In addition, this is a great way to also personalise your wedding day, in terms of your wedding invitations and stationery. You can feature a key design element, be it from the venue, a flower from the bouquet or even just something the bride and groom hold dear to their hearts.

Heritage, Vintage & Classics

History means a lot to many people, whether it is your roots, your past or just the past in general, there are so many things that you look back on which you can be inspirited to decorate your special day with elements that are sentimental to you.

Every wedding has to have a bouquet as an accessory for the bride, and over the years, bouquets have become such unique features that it has become an inspiration for many a thing. Therefore, in this instalment of DIY Wedding Invitations, we bring you Bouquet Inspired DIY Wedding Invitations.

If you already have a colour scheme selected, then all you will need to do is figure out the texture of the DIY invitation paper and the inspiration to decorate it in a way that blends well with your wedding theme. Now, if you are using DreamDay Invitations and their DIY wedding invitations kits, you have the ease of having your entire guest list printed as well as the invitation wording and such.  When selecting your DIY invites, make sure you have some idea of the layout because it will be delivered to you so that they will be ready to have other wedding invitations and accessories attached to it. Now, onto the matter of what you can use to decorate these DIY wedding invitations, we have a few ideas in mind. Let us find out more about them, shall we?

Material Inspirations for Your DIY Wedding Invitations

Beaded bouquets are cute and dainty, and definitely different from any wedding bouquet you have seen. They can be considered a little sparse, but you can accessorise with more beads or accompanying materials. Like so, you can add beads or beaded strings, to blend well with your bouquet, ensuring that the colour scheme is the same.  There is also the option of handmade wedding invitations from scratch, which involves adding beaded buckles with lace or ribbons. That is just one option you can take.

Another unique bouquet you can use is twigs as the main attraction. Add a rustic touch to your DIY wedding invitation with this accessory.

Brooches are lovely additions to weddings, but you can break the mould by opting for a bouquet of brooches and make it truly beautiful. Your DIY wedding invitation would be a brooch too, giving your invitees a wedding keepsake with your invite as well.

Fan Shaped Bouquet is something that is unheard of but entirely possible. So, shape your wedding bouquet in that manner and decorate your wedding invite to resemble a handheld antique fan as well.

Feathers are lovely to behold and the colours are truly spectacular. You can add a single feather or numerous ones to accessorise your DIY wedding invitation.

Buttons, similar to brooches can be ornate and beautiful. So find yourself admiring the beauty of your bouquet and your wedding invite when you opt for this accessory.

Wires are similar to twigs but can be shaped to your liking. Deck your bouquet with some lovely designs and use that as inspiration for your design on the DIY wedding invites.

Fruits and Vegetables are great additions to your decor and using them for your bouquet is quite creative. Use inspiration from the fruits and vegetables, from the colours or shapes and use it in the decor and design of truly unique wedding invites.

Fabric Bouquets as also great options, and are cost efficient. When making your fabric flowers, have a few more made for your DIY wedding invites, and use it as the highlights of the floral invitation and blend your wedding elements together.

Your wedding invitations are important and if you have taken on the task of DIY wedding invitations, well then you are in for a treat because you can do them up anyway you like. In this article on DIY wedding invitations, we tackle how you can use no fold invite cards and make them fabulous. Let us find out how!

When you buy yourself DIY wedding invitation kits, they come in several sizes, out of which the most popular ones are either square or rectangular. The dimensions of those DIY cards are 134mm x 134mm for the square DIY wedding cards, and for the rectangular ones, they are at 180mm x 90mm and 200mm x 90mm. No matter which size you opt for, they are always two-sided cards that are available in varying colours, depending on the theme you have chosen for your wedding.

These flat style cards can feature the name of the couple and the wedding date, and even a special saying or a line from a poem, and on the other side, the details and information as to where the wedding ceremony and reception will be held, along with RSVP information (if you would like to add those). Apart from the information you will have printed or use a calligrapher for a beautiful finish, you might also want to add a few features to accent the white spaces. These can take after the wedding theme in question and feature the following to make your no fold flat style DIY wedding invitations truly fabulous.

Adding illustrations to your DIY wedding invitation can go a long way, especially if you use it in the right amounts and balance it out. If you include the information in the centre of the paper, then you can use either opposite corner to add a beautiful accent feature. You could use flourishes that are inspired by flowers, or even floral touches, depending on what your bridal flowers will be. Some couples even opt to add illustrations after their theme or even the venue, which add a lovely locale touch to it.

Borders, patterns that are either bold visually or in colour, or even watermarked to create a soothing look, are great additions to your wedding invitations. Adding accessories might also be something that appeals to you, therefore adding the likes of lace, ribbons such as cloth, satin or grosgrain would be ideal.

Another way you can make your DIY wedding invites truly special is by adding a  custom motifs or monogram, or even picking one out from a few of the ones you like best and either printing, stampin’ or painting it on, to add a sense of class and personality to your wedding invitations. This could transcend into the wedding stationery suite too. You can add value to your DIY wedding invitations with the items mentioned above. Find out more by keeping an eye out on this blog!