Creative Ideas And Quotes For A Special Engagement Announcement

Getting engaged can be an incredibly exciting and important time in your life, and you probably want to capture the milestone and announce it to your loved ones in a special way. If you are looking for something more creative than the classic holding hands or kissing photos for engagement announcement ideas, you’ve come to the right place! Many couples use novel ways to announce their engagement as it can be a happy, uplifting occasion that can be shown with the world in a way that conveys your love for each other. Using engagement quotes can help show the world that you are ready to spend the rest of your life with your true love. 

The following is a selection of creative ideas and quotes for a really special engagement announcement.

Engagement photo ideas

A popular way to announce an engagement is by using creative photos that you can upload to social media, print cards with, or send to people electronically via email, apps, etc. You can source these from your personal photos together, or you can organize a special photoshoot for this purpose alone. Add special effects, black-and-white filters, ambient lighting, etc., to lend the pictures even more visual appeal. Here are a few ideas for creative photo announcements.

Cute pet

If you share a pet together, letting your furry friend help announce your engagement can be a fun and unique way to tell your friends and family about your upcoming nuptials. You could have your pet announce the engagement with a placard around their neck. It may help to keep the text on the sign short and striking and let your cute pet do the talking. You could take pictures of your pet alone or include yourselves. Alternatively, consider different angles and effects, such as stacking your hands and paws together or putting the ring on your pet's nose.

Movie poster

For the movie buffs, you could consider customizing a movie poster using one of your engagement photos. You could consider hiring a graphic designer to help or use one of the many applications that assist in making poster layouts. You can get creative in the wording or customize an existing movie or TV series title and slogan.

The ring

Take a unique photo using the engagement ring by drawing a little smiling face on each partner's ring finger. Then, position the engagement ring on the receiving partner's finger, hold your fingers together, and let the image speak for itself. Also, you could take a photo through the ring or place it somewhere unusual, like on top of your pet's head.

Funny pictures

Engagement photos don't always have to be serious. Have a little fun with your announcement and come up with funny photos depicting your relationship.

Graphics

If you’re good with editing, use those skills for a cool announcement idea! It may take a few more planning tools, but you can use graphic design to alter digital photos and add or superimpose your photo, announcement, etc., onto anything, such as:

• • A movie house neon sign — you could take a photo of the two of you kissing in front of it!
  • A tarot card
  • Your astrological signs
  • A large road sign or advertising billboard (again, with the two of you in front)
  • A book or album cover
  • A product label
  • A famous movie scene
  • A cute depiction of a saying or a famous quote, such as “Tying the knot,” “Madly in love,” “It feels like home to me,” “You had me at hello,” “Every pot gets its lid,” “You're a gem,” and so forth.

Engagement announcement quotes

If you’re feeling overwhelmed thinking up engagement announcement ideas on your own, that is perfectly normal. There are plenty of ways to show your love and excitement using quotes. Use any of the following quotes on love, engagement, and marriage on your photos or in an engagement announcement card.

1. “My humans are getting married,” or, “My humans got engaged.” (Good for an announcement by a pet)
2. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” - Lao Tzu
3. “There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.” - George Sand
4. “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
   Love as you'll never be hurt,
   Sing like there's nobody listening,
   And live like its heaven on earth.” - William W. Purkey
5. “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because the reality is finally better than your dreams.” - Dr. Seuss
6. “I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” - John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
7. “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.” - Pablo Neruda
8. “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.” - Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
9. “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
   And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” - William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
10. “Doubt thou the stars are fire;
    Doubt that the sun doth move;
    Doubt truth to be a liar;
    But never doubt I love.” - William Shakespeare, Hamlet
11. “Easiest decision I ever made.” - Anon
12. “I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning." - Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
13. “Just when you think it cannot get any better, it does. We're engaged!” - Anon
14. “One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.” - Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
15. “So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.” - Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
16. “In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.” - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
17. “You are, and always have been, my dream.” - Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
18. “Where there is love, there is life.” - Mahatma Gandhi
19. “Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.” - Zelda Fitzgerald
20. “We love with a love that [is] more than love.” - Edgar Allan Poe
21. “Every heart sings a song, incomplete until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.” - Plato
22. “Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.” - Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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