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The way we did it was to invite just the bridal party and some close family friends. We have 150 on the invite list with 100-110 expected to come. The engagement party ended up being about 20 people with 30 invited.
In my opinion you don't want to make it too big because then people may begin to feel as though you're having two weddings!
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. The part that complicates it for me is that my mother said that we need to invite everyone (family friends) that are going to (or might) throw us showers. Well, that adds on a boatload. I also feel as if it's sort of sucking up to people just to have a shower thrown. I dunno. Wedding politics down here are a pain in the ass. lol
Ours right now is at 65 expected to come to the engagement party. That was after like a 20 minute assesmant by my fiance and me. (And very a overwhelmed one. lol).
It doesn't really seem like a good criteria (inviting people because they MAY throw you a shower)
I would limit it to close family and close friends!
Ours will probably be huge, because pretty much everyone that is invited to the wedding on FI's side is invited, and a lot of them won't travel for the wedding so they will come to the engagement party to celebrate with us. It's more like a pre-wedding reception!
Hi,
We are having an engagement party next week! We expect to have 30 - 50, with a total of somewhere between 130 - 160 invited to the wedding. My friend wanted it to be 100+, but I vetoed that idea. I think it should be a celebration of couple that is shared with close family and friends. Your number sounds about right considering the total wedding guest count.
I would just try to keep in mind that you don't want it to be like the wedding, so try to do some fun things and maybe have a bride/groom trivia, etc.
Have a great time!
We had our engagement party and it was very small and so lovely. It was FI's family, and my family, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, brothers and sisters, that's it. No one outside the immediate group.
We had our E-Party and just kept it at friends only. I did this because I knew if I invited my parents friends, aunts/uncles, etc. that the numbers would be too much for the host. I also decided that since we are having showers that I would invite the adults to the showers and give those a break that came to the e-party.
As it stands I'll end up with 2 showers just for the adults and the girlfriends for the bach party.
we just had our engagement party and i took my bosses advice and made it a 'young people's party' so basically it just included our friends who were able to come. the only people we invited outside of our friends were our parents and siblings. we have about 210 on the invite list and the party was right about 60. perfect number for us. :)
our engagement party is going to be huge. my mom's throwing it, and she wanted to have it thanksgiving weekend because my sister/moh will be in town then. then she decided that since it's thanksgiving weekend, a lot of families will be in town, so we're even inviting people that aren't invited to the wedding, even with all the fighting that i did against it. we're not inviting out of town people, but i still wouldn't be surprised if it's the same amount of people that we have at the wedding.
Thanks everybody.
I really wish it could be just family, bridal party, and our close friends.
Well see, the problem is, my parents' friends are the ones throwing it, so I can't exclude that group. Also, my family is TINY, and my fiance's family, besides his parents, all live in Germany.
I think I've already accepted that I'm going to be nervous the entire night, it will be bigger than I'd like, and scary being the center of attention.
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Ok. So I need some major help/advice on what to do about our engagement party. It's being thrown by a group of family friends in November/December. It will be in the evening/night, and probably on the dressy/cocktail attire side. Our total wedding invite list is currently at 241, with 170 expected to come, but that list needs to be shortened. I'd really like for about 125 to show up, but that's another story. :p I was wondering...
Who is typically invited to an engagement party?
What's the typical guest list size?
I know I probably have some other questions, but I'm so overwhelmed with trying to figure it out (way to put it off, me), that I can't even think straight. :p I just don't even know what to expect/shoot for. The people throwing it aren't giving us any real guidelines, and based off of them, we can invite whoever we want.