The word 'congratulatory' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is an adjective that means expressing congratulations or praise. It is commonly used in formal or official contexts to acknowledge and celebrate someone's achievements or successes. Example: The CEO sent a congratulatory email to all employees for surpassing their quarterly sales targets.
President Enrique Peña Nieto confirmed the arrest via his Twitter account with congratulatory messages for the Mexican security forces in what could prove to be the most significant single development yet in the drug wars that have battered Mexico since the launch of a crackdown on organised crime seven years ago.
When Tony Abbott became Prime Minister, Murdoch tapped out a congratulatory tweet pre-empting how Abbott would be "killing the carbon tax".
Expressions of congratulatory warmth were extended at arm's length, with fearful looks, as if I'd just been found to have a contagious tapeworm.
Their friends and relatives were congratulatory and numerous in the two rooms on the ground floor.
His rapport with Britain's Tony Blair, who called him "a friend" in a congratulatory message he posted in French on YouTube, is genuine; Mr Blair was expected to visit him in Paris this week.
NOT long after a puff of white smoke appeared over the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 14th 2013 and Xi Jinping assumed the presidency of China, he exchanged congratulatory messages with another world leader chosen just hours earlier by a different but equally opaque, arcane and undemocratic procedure: Pope Francis.
But that the second half of the prize should go to Emmanuelle Bercot for her frantic, mugging, self-congratulatory turn in Maïwenn's unwatchably awful Mon Roi is staggering.
General Musharraf, they argue, is, despite his self-congratulatory new memoirs (see article), isolated politically and under pressure from insurgents in Baluchistan.
The Lib Dems will circulate a self-congratulatory policy report alleging that their partners "can't be trusted to build a fairer society".
Not a room is to be had within a 100km radius of the Free State capital.Self-congratulatory celebrations are due to continue throughout the year leading up to the ANC's national conference, held once every five years, to elect new leaders.
Squandering their precious hours of prep time in smug self-congratulatory lesbian weddings at Unitarian-Universalist meeting houses, probably.
