Celebrate Your Engagement with an Engagement Party
Many engagements occurred during the holidays and more will occur on Valentine's day. Perhaps you received a ring and now your family wants to celebrate by hosting a party. Having an engagement party is a good way to introduce your fiancé or fiancée to your family and friends. Today, in our mobile society, you or your fiance may not live near family or old friends. Therefore, making a quick trip home for an engagement party is one way to introduce a future spouse to a number of people at one time. The following tips will help you plan a successful party. The parents of the either the bride or groom usually host the party, though grandparents, an aunt and uncle, a close family friend, or a godparent may host instead. If both sets of parents live in the same community and are acquainted, they might co-host a party. It is socially acceptable to have more than one engagement party, each hosted by one set of parents, if the pare...