For those of you who had eparties

A few questions!

1. When did you send out invites and when was the party?

2, Did anyone have it at home?

3. Did you get more money or more gifts?

4, Did you invite more friends than relatives?

5. Do you have any cute ideas?

THanks!! If my mom pulls this off its completely shotgun...wanna do it before my bro has his second baby!

1. I sent out invites almost a month and a half before with RSVP 3 weeks my final count
2. I didn't have it at home
3. More money, we didn't register, but got some gifts.
4. More friends just because FH has no family here. Only his mom was here on his side.
5. I was so happy with my eparty at CLM hence no ideas!!! But consider it at the park.... a picnic rental is really cheap!

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Posted by madseason

A few questions!

1. When did you send out invites and when was the party?

2, Did anyone have it at home?

3. Did you get more money or more gifts?

4, Did you invite more friends than relatives?

5. Do you have any cute ideas?

THanks!! If my mom pulls this off its completely shotgun...wanna do it before my bro has his second baby!

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I am hving mine June 9th I sent out the invites last friday and made the RSVP for MAy 18th

We were gonna have it in the yrad but then realized we had too many people so we are having it at eisenhower park. Very laid back, a bunch of people a Keg or 2 ,munchies ,a radio, and then Dinner Buffet style!

I have more family then friends invited but as family cancels i am going to invite more friends. inviting the friends was hard because we are not 100% sure who we have to cut from the wedding list yet. we didnt want to invite them to the E-party and then cant invite them to the wedding!

Hope this helped!

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Posted by madseason

A few questions!

1. When did you send out invites and when was the party?

2, Did anyone have it at home?

3. Did you get more money or more gifts?

4, Did you invite more friends than relatives?

5. Do you have any cute ideas?

THanks!! If my mom pulls this off its completely shotgun...wanna do it before my bro has his second baby!

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1. I sent out invites beginning of january, party was end of february, about 6 weeks before the party i think

2. no

3. We only got money, and then we received a few gifts after the party, from his moms coworker and his out of state relatives

4. Hmmm it was close to even, but we invited about 60-70 of his family members

5. Maybe a wish tree, candy buffet

we had it in my parents backyard and it was awesome!

we only sent out the invites about a month before .....and we got more money than anything ....


we really had an awesome time!

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Posted by Melissa313

I haven't had mine yet but it's in 2 weeks. FMIL is planning it, we invited close friends and relatives, only aunts uncles cousins and grandparents, a few more friends than the BP, we are keeping it kinda small, and it is going to be at FMIL's house, and i believe she sent out the invites a month in advance (but everyone knew before because it was a small list so we made sure it was a date everyone could make it to)

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the sad part is i told Fh only close family, aunts, uncles, he only has 1 living grandparent, and first cousins only, well he has 20 something 1st cousins and alot of them are married lol. And theyre all close, they go to family functions all the time, see eachother for occasions and all that

1- Sent out the invites so they would arrive about 5 weeks before.

2- Had it at a firehouse

3- MONEY

4- More Relatives then friends,,, didnt invite all the friends we wanted but had over 100 people

5- Hmmmmm I think beachy for the summer

my FSIL planned it at her house, and she sent out the invites, i don't know when.

having it at someones house was GREAT and cheap...and we all felt more comfortable and relaxed. it was really nice.

we got more money. we hardly got any gifts, and we got a lot more money than we thought we would.

we invited only relatives. the only friends were those in the bridal party.

FSIL bought these fake engagement ring charms for the champaigne glasses, and by the end of the night EVERYONE was wearing theirs on their fingers, and people were proposing to each other all over the party. it was really cute and they were a hit.

A few questions!

1. When did you send out invites and when was the party?

Party is June 16th. Out of towners invites went out last week, friends and close relatives will be over the weekend/monday at the latest

2, Did anyone have it at home?

No at an American Legion

3. Did you get more money or more gifts?

Dont know yet

4, Did you invite more friends than relatives?

Many more friends. I have a very small family and Fh doesnt have a big family either.

5. Do you have any cute ideas?

We are getting a chocolate fountain!

thanks everyone!!!

I really want to do this, but i want to do it before my new niece or nephew is born (we dont now what it is!!) The due date is 6/23, but SIL has gestatinal diabetes and she delivered my niece on 5/22, when she was due 6/12, so I know the baby is coming early june...

Do u think we have enough time....mostly family, BP and some co workers we are only really close with

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Posted by madseason

A few questions!

1. When did you send out invites and when was the party?

2, Did anyone have it at home?

3. Did you get more money or more gifts?

4, Did you invite more friends than relatives?

5. Do you have any cute ideas?

THanks!! If my mom pulls this off its completely shotgun...wanna do it before my bro has his second baby!

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1. We sent them out about a two months- 1 1/2 months ahead of time..the party was during the day (jan 7)
2. I had it at papa joes, commack
3. Money (primarily because we didn't have a registry)
4. about the same..
5. I had a board of wedding tips for bride a groom (it came out great, thanks to my moh, and was fun!), we also had a board of pics of us throughout the years (birth to engagement) heres a pic..

few questions!

1. We sent them out about 1 month before.

2, we had it at a place.

3. we got more money and only 5-6 gifts. We did not register.

4, more relatives than friends. I have a large family. we had 1 table of friends (but Fh and I went to HS together so some of those friends are mutual, we did not invite anyone from work, and there were several who could not make it - ours was thanksgiving weekend) If more could have made it we prob would have had 2 tables of friends)

5. We make a photo card box, everyone loved it. We made our party more like a fancy get together. We didnt do speeches or cake cutting ceremony.. we wanted to save that for the wedding.

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Posted by jgl

few questions!

1. We sent them out about 1 month before.

2, we had it at a place.

3. we got more money and only 5-6 gifts. We did not register.

4, more relatives than friends. I have a large family. we had 1 table of friends (but Fh and I went to HS together so some of those friends are mutual, we did not invite anyone from work, and there were several who could not make it - ours was thanksgiving weekend) If more could have made it we prob would have had 2 tables of friends)

5. We make a photo card box, everyone loved it. We made our party more like a fancy get together. We didnt do speeches or cake cutting ceremony.. we wanted to save that for the wedding.

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I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE THE ADVICE BOARDS!!!!!!!!!!

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Posted by madseason

A few questions!

1. When did you send out invites and when was the party?

2, Did anyone have it at home?

3. Did you get more money or more gifts?

4, Did you invite more friends than relatives?

5. Do you have any cute ideas?

THanks!! If my mom pulls this off its completely shotgun...wanna do it before my bro has his second baby!

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1. My party was September 10th and I sent the invites out the 1st week of August.

2. We had it at a restaurant.

3. We got more money than gifts. As for the gifts...we got 5 different pairs of toasting flutes!!

4. We both have big families so we had about 130 people and the majority was family. We only invited our really close friends.

5. Cute ideas....???? Not sure....where are you planning to have it and when??

1. When did you send out invites and when was the party?
We mailed the invites about 7 weeks before the party, but we had a lot of people and did rsvp cards rather than phone calls.

2, Did anyone have it at home?
We had ours in a restaurant .... a brunch.

3. Did you get more money or more gifts?
We were about an even split ....

4, Did you invite more friends than relatives?
We mostly invited relatives, I have a HUGE family! There were very few friends there, just really close ones.

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Posted by madseason

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Posted by jgl

few questions!

1. We sent them out about 1 month before.

2, we had it at a place.

3. we got more money and only 5-6 gifts. We did not register.

4, more relatives than friends. I have a large family. we had 1 table of friends (but Fh and I went to HS together so some of those friends are mutual, we did not invite anyone from work, and there were several who could not make it - ours was thanksgiving weekend) If more could have made it we prob would have had 2 tables of friends)

5. We make a photo card box, everyone loved it. We made our party more like a fancy get together. We didnt do speeches or cake cutting ceremony.. we wanted to save that for the wedding.

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I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE THE ADVICE BOARDS!!!!!!!!!!

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Madseason, I'm probably late with this, but I love the whole Mr. T theme you got going on! 'I pity the foo!'

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Posted by GinaBambina88

Madseason, I'm probably late with this, but I love the whole Mr. T theme you got going on! 'I pity the foo!'

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hahahahahahahha NP!!! I put it up yesterday!!! I looooove the T!

EAT YOUR GREENS!
STAY IN SCHOOL!
DRINK YOU MILK!

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Posted by madseason

A few questions!

1. When did you send out invites and when was the party?

2, Did anyone have it at home?

3. Did you get more money or more gifts?

4, Did you invite more friends than relatives?

5. Do you have any cute ideas?

THanks!! If my mom pulls this off its completely shotgun...wanna do it before my bro has his second baby!

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1. - I was late in sending the invites. I sent them about three weeks before the party, but those that were invited I had already let know about two months prior to that.
2 - no, I had mine at a mexican restaurant. It was SO much fun!
3 - i made TONS of cash. A friend told me not to register for gifts before the eparty because then you'll get all your gifts for that instead of the shower. Essentially, the gift money is going to flat out pay for my DJ with some money left over.
4 - No. It was immediate family (aunts, uncles, 1st cousins) and bridal party only. we had 40 people.
5 - We gave out little goodie bags of mini tequila bottles and plastic shot glasses.

You can pull it off with no problem!

- Jess