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Maybe your family or FIs family can host? FMIL hosted ours.
We invited any local guests + family- I think we had about 70 people at ours and we had it at FMIL's house.
I told my mom that I wanted an engagement party . . . and to make it happen 
We ended up having an engagement/housewarming party and invited wedding party, immediate family and aunts/uncles.
We threw our own! We just invited folks who were local and had drinks/snacks in a private room in a restaurant. It was fun!
Throw it yourself, everyones game for a party, but if no ones offered it might be on you to do the hosting. We had an engagement party at our house, no gifts, just an informal backyard bbq with our families and friends in the area. We didn't really invite people out of town, since it was really informal and more of a chance of our families to meet.
My aunt threw ours. I never heard of the bride and groom throwing their own engagement party, but you totally could.
Ok well my fiances Mom and sister live out of state....Is it too much to invite them? I mean...I guess if they don't come it's ok...I understand...I just don't want them to feel obligated.
@becoming...I am pretty sure the MOH doesn't throw the engagement party. I think it would be a good idea to talk to both parents...and if neither wants to take on the responsibility...there is nothing wrong with you two throwing yourself one.
Yes we will probably just host it ourselves....But how should it be?? Should I rent out someplace...have it at our house?? Have it at our friends mansion? AHH IDK.
Yeah, we planned ours around when our parents and siblings could come, but they were mainly the only out of town people there. But I've been to more formal engagement parties where they invited most people from their wedding there.
Agree, depends on how formal you want it, who all you want to invite, and budget.
ok thanks all....I will just have to see how it's all going to go down and when....
I wanted one too. I ended up winnning a free dinner for 8 at the Spaghetti Warehouse, so I used that for our immediate families to meet. It was so fun. It doesn't have to be anything grand.
We hosted our party at our house and just did BBQ food from UNcles Dave!! It was a lot of fun! We just had our local friends and his parents happened to be in town that weekend so they came too (along with his sister, brother in law niece and nephew!) No one cared that we hosted ourselves. Actually it was a surprise sort of - part of us getting engaged was that FI asked 2 of my best friends from college and a friend from my childhood to come down that weekend and the night of the engagement he told me they were comign and that he was hosting a party that he had already invited people to! Only one couple brought a gift and then a couple friends got us cards or flowers. I would highly suggest this option!!
We had two tiny engagement parties. One was a get-together with our immediate families so the parents could meet each other. It involved BBQ and a trip to the beach at my parent's house.
The other involved our closest friends at our house. I planned it and got sandwiches catered for the 10 of us. We made it very "us," with a fun themed cake and drinks. We played games and got tipsy. We had a budget of less than $200.
If you throw it yourselves, you can invite whoever you want! But if you invite your _____, you have to invite his, too (and vice versa).
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I want to have an engagement party...nobody has really said anything yet...I don't mind paying for it or anything....Where should I have it? At a restaurant? Someones house?? I dont know....Should I talk to my Maid of Honor about it? And how many should come? I know the purpose is to celebrate my engagement and let our 2 families meet. How big should it be tho? Thanks