Engagement Party

I skipped having an engagement party. No particular reason other than it didn’t really cross my mind to have it

No. We didn’t do an engagement party. The only celebration we want our family/friends to attend is the actual wedding. There just wasn’t a need to gather everyone together simply to say “We’re engaged”. Instead, a week after we got back from Hawaii, I created a cute flyer about the proposal and text it out as a surprise. That was enough.

I did not want to do an engagement party, it's too much of an actual hassle to get everyone together, and it would have just been another huge expense on top of the wedding. @_@

No because it's not a thing where we are.

No because all our friends and family live all over the country and out of the country so there would be no point in having people travel when they’re already traveling for the wedding.

I would have one and i wished I would had done one. I would had bc it celebrate me being engaged beforw i actual get married

Nope. Something we didn’t feel the need to host. Both families are out of state. You’re supposed to have the party within the first 2 months of being engaged according to the etiquette warriors. That wasn’t going to work for us.

I’m having an engagement party! My fiancé and I basically have the same friends that all live close by and we all love to get together! My family lives about two hours away so the engagement party is very feasible for us. All of our friends and family are all close by or near enough and we all love getting together anyway I think engagement parties work well when you invite close friends and family that are close by.


If our friends and family were all far out and spread apart, we would not have done it. I wouldn’t want my friends or family to pay travel expenses multiple times.

We didn’t have one.. we were planning one initially but once we realized how much it would cost, we figured that money would be better spent on the wedding. Plus my husband’s family all lives across the country, and many of our close friends live out of town too. So we didn’t want to put all that time, money, and effort into planning a party that probably a lot of people would have difficulty coming to, and we didn’t want to make people travel twice for us lol. We just decided to put all the money and planning-effort into the wedding.

We didn't have an engagement party per say. When my husband proposed, my parents, siblings, mother-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, husband's cousin and his girlfriend were all there so after I said yes we had a picnic which included a hoagie tray, chips and cake.

We did not.

Partly because we got engaged *at* a party, partly because we had a very short engagement, and partly because we didn't want to.

It isn't required, you can skip it and no one will blink.

We skipped. Our friends/families are busy enough and we were more interested in people attending our wedding. Plus, we each have very tiny immediate families and everyone already knew each other.

We sorta did? Lol, my fiance's family threw a surprise party for us a few days after we got engaged. It was just his family so I don't think it is a traditional "engagement party", but I counted it as one. As far as us planning one ourselves, I don't plan to.

We didn't. No one offered to host one, and we didn't particularly care. We kinda felt like it was overkill. We knew that the wedding party was planning a bridal shower and bachelorette/bachelor parties, and we kinda felt...how many parties do we really need to celebrate the wedding?

No, all of my extended family live in other countries and his are scattered from Texas to Cali and everywhere in between, so we decided to just skip it

Yes we had one prior to Covid but my bridal shower is in July in NY