When we plan to hold events such as marriage, birthday, thanksgiving, and others, invite our family, closest relatives, or friends to come to the program that we are holding is a must thing to do. Well, to invite them to come to our program, of course we have to give them a letter or invitation card. Maybe all of you are familiar with the contents of invitations that you often receive in Indonesian. But what about the invitation / invitation that invited England?

Well this time, we will review invitation text in English or known as invitation text. Invitation text is a text that contains a request in the form of writing or message addressed to someone to do something or go to a place / event. In accordance with the definition, the purpose of invitation text is to invite or invite someone to attend a certain event.

In general, the structure of the invitation / invitation text text is as follows:

1. Receiver / To: contains the name of the person to be addressed / invited.
2. Body of invitation. The contents of the invitation are usually the following:
   Subject / occasion: contains the name of the event to be held / the purpose of inviting.
   Day and Date: day and date of the event.
   Time: time set to attend the event held.
   Place: the place where the event is held / takes place
3. Sender / from: the person who sent the invitation. Receiver / To: contains the name of the person to be addressed / invited.

Well guys, besides knowing the invitation text structure, it’s good if you also know the expressions that are often used in the invitation text. Here’s the phrase:

     I invite you to come to …
     I invite you to join my …
     Would you like to come to …
     Would you like to join us …
     I would like to invite you to …
     Request the present of …

After you read and understand the structure of the invitation text and invitation expressions commonly used in the text, here are 2 examples of invitation text that you can read.

After you read the definitions and examples from the invitation text / invitation text above, let’s now try to create your own invitation text / invitation text.

Below is a video explanation of the invitation and various ways to answer the invitation. Watch and listen carefully!