planning engagement party help!
this is reposted from the 07 board, so sorry for those who saw it twice ![]()
So, we finally picked a date for our engagement party!
yay! I'm so excited. Right now we're looking at Saturday, July 15th.
My parents have a little party they're throwing for my uncle's 50th in a few weeks, but after that we're going to get moving on planning this. So, what goes into planning an engagement party? We're keeping it really simple, just a backyard thing at my parents' house (where I currently live, until I get me some money). We'll probably have the food catered, but not like roving waiters with trays catered, but like caterers bring food, set it up on a table, make sure it stays clean and organized and help people serve themselves, and then clean up and leave. We'll just play music off the cd player (we have an outdoor speaker system around our pool). We're thinking around 50 guests.
So, what do we need? Right now my list is such:
- make our guest list
- get guest list from fils.
- find / book caterer and choose foods
- buy / make invitations, address, and send out.
is that it? anything else? What do people normally have at engagement parties? Is there supposed to be like a cake or anything? any advice you have would be great!
So, we finally picked a date for our engagement party!
yay! I'm so excited. Right now we're looking at Saturday, July 15th.
My parents have a little party they're throwing for my uncle's 50th in a few weeks, but after that we're going to get moving on planning this. So, what goes into planning an engagement party? We're keeping it really simple, just a backyard thing at my parents' house (where I currently live, until I get me some money). We'll probably have the food catered, but not like roving waiters with trays catered, but like caterers bring food, set it up on a table, make sure it stays clean and organized and help people serve themselves, and then clean up and leave. We'll just play music off the cd player (we have an outdoor speaker system around our pool). We're thinking around 50 guests.
So, what do we need? Right now my list is such:
- make our guest list
- get guest list from fils.
- find / book caterer and choose foods
- buy / make invitations, address, and send out.
is that it? anything else? What do people normally have at engagement parties? Is there supposed to be like a cake or anything? any advice you have would be great!
