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I think it is totally up to you! It can be anything from just having a few friends over to celebrate over drinks or a full dinner party with 60 people. Most of the ones I have been to have been thrown by the couple's parents but I personally think it is acceptable to throw one for yourselves! There really aren't any rules when it comes to stuff like this, as far as I'm concerned! Good luck and congrats!
We didn't feel the need to have one, mostly because we got engaged while FI was on a break from school and just didn't even have time really. Plus, most of our friends were busy with family and school in the next little while afterward, so by the time we could have scheduled one, everybody already knew about it.
Engagement parties can be thrown by anyone! If you think your fiance's parents would want to throw you one or you guys want to do it yourselves, then go for it! I actually ha two, one thrown by each set of parents and they were both SO fun...It's a great way to celebrate a momentous occasion in your life :)
since we didnt have one my mom is working on a larger shower.. my cousin had a large engagement party thrown by their parents but then her shower was just really intimate, like 20 closest friends/family...
I think it sounds fun but for me it was unnecessary. I already feel kind of guilty that there are 2 showers and a bachelorette!
Because our engagement was 1 1/2 years long, my parents wanted to host an engagement party for both our families to get together and get to know each other a bit more. It was very casual, but nice.
My fiance's dad and step-mom hosted an engagement party for our families at their house. And his mom and step-dad came and everyone was totally civil to each other. Creepy. It was going to be the first time all of our parents (both of us come from divorced families) were in one room, but unfortunately my dad had a heart attack.
He's fine now and I think he may have done it just to get out of seeing my mom. HA!
I would love to have an engagement party but it's just an other expense that unnecessary and we can't afford.
Yeah, I'm leaning toward not having an engagement party... although they sound so fun!! But with my mom acting kind of distant lately, and most of my wedding party living out of town, it would probably just be my fiance's immediate family, the two of us, and my mom; and my mom would be totally "outnumbered." Geez, we need to make some friends in this city or something! :p
We threw ourselves an engagement party as a way for our wedding party and parents (all four sets of them) to meet each other. It was good because we realized our divorced parents will make a scene when they are in the same room together. Glad to get that out of the way so we can plan accordingly for the wedding. We had a cocktail party in the club room of our apartment. A friend made CDs with classic music (think Sinatra), I made all the finger food, we served wine and a signature cocktail, and everyone got a little dressed up. It was intimate but fun.
I'm not sure what the etiquette really is on this one, but if we were going to have one we would have threw one ourselves. I think a little get together with some friends would have been fun to celebrate, but we never actually had a formal "engagement party".
I had the most fun engagement party ever (probably because it did not include family!) FI and I went back to our undergraduate city and got all our friends together at our favorite bar---we ordered about $100 worth of appetizers and halfway through the night announced that we were engaged! So fun, so low key. It was very 'us"
My parents hosted an engagement "dinner" for FI and I. it was my family (mom/dad/sis/BIL/nephew/uncle) and his immediate family and both sets of grandparents. It was fairly low key but fun! 
it was nice to see our two families have fun together and talk about the wedding! (ha..and then talk about how long our engagement is) 
Go ahead and throw yourselves one if you want! Traditionall it's thrown by the bride's parents but that's not realistic nowadays when family is spread out. A good friend (who is like a mother figure) threw the engagement party for us without us asking. We got engaged mid December and the party took place at the end of Feb. I think the engagement party should be thrown early on.
It is a good time for people to meet each other and just celebrate your engagement. She had some good music on and there was food, drinks, and a cake. It was a small intimate party. We made a speech thanking everyone for coming, how we met, our wedding plans, etc. Some people brought gifts which was really nice.
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My fiance popped the question on Christmas Eve, and it just occurred to me... When would we have an engagement party? I'm not sure if we even want one, but it sounds kind of fun. My mother is 2 1/2 hours away, and my future bridesmaids are all out of town, but my fiance's family is here. Would we host our own party, or is someone else supposed to step forward and do that? I don't think I've ever gone to one. What do you ladies think?