Engagement wishing well messages

Say congratulations to a loved one on their engagement with a special message that feels unique and personal. Whether you’re sending an engagement card to a friend or family member, your message should always include your warm wishes for the couple as they begin this new chapter in life together. If you’re worried about finding the perfect words to say, we have you covered with valuable tips on what to write in an engagement card, so you can shower the bride and groom with love.

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What to Write in an Engagement Card Message

Your engagement card message should reflect your relationship with the newly engaged bride or groom, all while including customary engagement greetings. Follow these three rules below when writing your engagement card to make your writing process easier.

1. Congratulate the couple first. The initial phrase that the couple reads should be a short and simple “congratulations” phrase. You won’t spend too much time worrying about how to begin your card if you follow this simple tip.
2. Write a heartfelt message that is unique to your relationship with the recipient or couple. This can be a funny engagement message with an inside joke or a sentimental message with a memory about the couple, as long as it feels personalized to the nature of your relationship with the recipient. This is the most important section of any engagement card and should be genuine.
3. Send your well wishes. Look to the future by letting the recipient or couple know what your well wishes are. Whether you’re wishing the couple endless years of laughter or wishing them a flawless wedding planning process, wishes are comforting at the end of a card.

Engagement Card Message Examples

Your engagement card message should be sentimental and reflective of your history with the recipient. As mentioned earlier, you can include a short memory about the newly engaged couple, in addition to letting your friend or loved one know how happy you are for them. We’ve provided an example for a bit of inspiration below:

Dear Lindsey,

Congratulations on your wedding engagement! I’m so happy to hear that you and _________ are taking the next step together.

I’ve enjoyed watching you grow as a person so much. I remember when you and John first met and how instant your connection with him was. I’m excited that you two have found love and I can’t wait to help you prepare for your wedding. I’m always here for you and look forward to watching your relationship blossom.

May your love shine brighter and your companionship grow richer with each passing day.

Best Wishes,

Alexis

Engagement Congratulations

Always let the happy couple know what you’re congratulating them on to set the tone for your card’s purpose. Choose a short congratulatory phrase from below to start your card off right.

• Congratulations on your wedding engagement!
• Congratulations to a beautiful couple. I’m so happy to hear that you and _________ are taking the next step together.
• Congratulations to the future bride and groom! I’m excited about this new chapter in your life.
• Congratulations on your new journey together.
• Congratulations on taking this exciting step together.
• Congratulations on finding each other. Your engagement is wonderful news.
• Congratulations on finding forever! I’m overjoyed that you have found your perfect love.
• Congratulations on this sweet occasion of your engagement!
• Heartiest congratulations to the beautiful couple.

Engagement Wishes

After writing a personalized message, end your card with engagement wishes that make the couple feel surrounded by love and hope about their future. When it comes to engagement wishes, you can choose one wish or mix and match wishes that you feel are important to the couple’s relationship.

• May your joining together bring you more joy than you can imagine.
• May your love for each other only strengthen as time goes by.
• May your love shine brighter and your companionship grow richer with each passing day.
• May you both be blessed with lifelong happiness.
• Wishing you a lifetime of joy, love, and happiness.
• Wishing you the very best as you begin to plan your lives together.
• Wishing you both the happily ever after you so very much deserve.
• Through the storms of life, may your love for one another be steadfast and strong.
• All the best with your wedding plans and for the future.

Engagement Quotes for Them

If you’d like to leave an inspirational saying for the couple to remember, you can use a meaningful engagement quote to elevate your card. There’s nothing wrong with getting a bit of extra help from others to make your engagement card more memorable.

• “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” – Eden Ahbez
• “You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.” – Anonymous
• “Chains do not hold marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.” – Simone Signoret
• “You don’t need to be on the same wavelength to succeed in marriage. You just need to be able to ride each other’s waves.” – Anonymous
• “Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• “True love stories never have endings.” – Richard Bach

Funny Engagement Quotes

If you have an easygoing relationship with the couple, you can opt for a funny engagement quote when expressing your sentiment. A lighthearted and humorous saying can brighten up your card. However, do your best to avoid sayings that are inappropriate. You don’t want to discourage the bride and groom from getting married or stir up any negative feelings.

Here are a few quotes that are bound to put a smile on the recipient’s face:

• “It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.”
• “Advice for almost married men: Never laugh at your wife’s choices, you are one of them.”
• “When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”
• “Engagement: a reason to stop putting in the effort to look good for each other. Congratulations!”
• “He liked it. So he put a ring on it. Congratulations!”
• “Who said you guys were allowed to get engaged without my permission? Oh well, you can have my blessing anyway.”

Engagement Sayings

These Engagement sayings are perfect for cards or engagement party gifts. Pick your favorite from those below or use them to inspire a message all your own.

• “Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning. Your love paints a beautiful picture of what love really means.”
• “May your love story continue forever.”
• “My whole heart for my whole life.”
• “Life, and love, are precious.”
• “Two souls, one heart.”
• “Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart.”
• “Newlyweds become oldyweds, and oldyweds are the reasons that families work.”
• “A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers.”

Are you struggling to come up with wedding invitation wishing well wording that doesn’t make you cringe?

Are you looking for the best wedding invitation wishing well wording that doesn’t offend your guests?

Perhaps you are moving houses so you would much prefer cash as a gift. Whatever it is, there is always a way to make asking your guests easier.

I’ve especially made this list for you here ❤

Here it is, a few wishing well wording ideas for your wedding invitations:

1. “Please no gifts as we have everything we could ever need, your presence is the only gift we want.”

Engagement photography: Emily Auvenshine Photography

2. “Your presence on our wedding day is the most special gift we could possibly ask for. However if you do wish to bless us, we are saving for our new home.”

Engagement photography: Anne Higgs Photography

3. “If you would like to get us a gift, a monetary contribution would be greatly appreciated as we move around a lot and already have all that we need.”

Engagement photography: Jessica Noelle Photography

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4. “If you do wish to give us something, a little cash to spend on our honeymoon (or our new home) would be very much appreciated.”

5. “We’re truly overwhelmed by your prayers and blessings. But if you desire to bring a gift, a wishing well will be present.”

6, “If you were thinking of giving a gift to help us on our way, a gift of money towards our house would really make our day. However, if you prefer to purchase a gift, feel free to surprise us in your own special way.”

Engagement photography: Hayley Jade

7, “Our wedding day full of love and laughter, would be the best gift we’d ever be after. However if you prefer to bring something more. A wishing well will be by the dance floor.”

8, “The presence of our family and friends is what we really hope for, you travelling to help us celebrate would be wonderful, so please nothing more.”

This is perfect for those of you who are having a destination wedding and don’t want any gifts from your friends and family.

9, “We ask that you do not bring gifts rather just come and celebrate us. We can’t wait to see you there!”

10, “Your love and laughter on our wedding day is the most special gift we could possibly receive, so please no gift as your presence is the only gift we need.”

If you are like me, “receiving gifts” is on the bottom of your love language list, then you would much rather spending time and having a good laugh with your loved one s. A gift is really a bonus on your special day.

11, “If you were thinking of giving us a gift, one of our love for nature would certainly make our day!”

If you and your person love the nature or anything adventurous, you can suggest that to your guests. It definitely opens up the floor for creativity.

How did you go? I hope these wishing well wording ideas helped you somehow!

Let me know in the comments below.

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Engagement Wishes and Congratulations

Last updated: October 3rd 2017. Find the perfect way to say ‘congratulations on your engagement‘ with this huge collection of engagement wishes, funny engagement quotes and images. If someone you know is getting engaged and you want to send them an engagement card, text message or email (or say it in person), you may be unsure how to choose the right words, what to write in an engagement card or engagement card etiquette. No worries, because we’ve got you covered. Whether you are looking for engagement wishes for a friend or a family member you will find them all right here. The engagement of a couple is one of the greatest causes for celebration because it is the start of one of the most amazing journeys that life can give us. Congratulating the newly engaged couple, whether through engagement card messages or in person, is a time-honored tradition. Here you can choose just the right engagement congratulations messages from the following categories: 1) engagement messages , 2) funny engagement quotes and 3) engagement wishes images. May your engagement wishes contribute to a long, healthy and happy life for the engaged couple.

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