Around two to three months after getting engaged, the majority of us will organize an engagement party and invite all our closest friends and family, and our future spouse\u2019s loved ones, as well. Engagement parties provide the perfect opportunity to bring two families together and congregate with the people we love the most to celebrate our union with the person we want to spend the rest of our lives with. So, if you simply don\u2019t know where to start and feel a little stuck on planning your engagement party, here are a few vital tips and tricks on how you can organize the party of your dreams.<\/p>\n
After he or she has proposed, you should take some time to really enjoy the moment and be happy and excited about your future together. It\u2019s a bad idea to jump straight into the stresses of party-planning when it\u2019s only been a couple of weeks since they popped the question! So, it\u2019s essential to take some time to establish what you want for the party, who you\u2019d like to invite, and organize all the little details. Relax, breathe, and plan your engagement party at your own comfortable pace.<\/p>\n
Keep in mind that the people you invite to your engagement party should ultimately be invited to the big day, too. In wedding etiquette, it\u2019s actually pretty rude not to invite the guests who were at your engagement party to your wedding. So before you send off the engagement party invitations, you and your other half should have decided how big or small you want your wedding to be, in order to avoid any mishaps or confusion.<\/p>\n
Of course, planning an engagement party should be all about the wants and needs of the future bride and groom \u2013 but it\u2019s still important to consider your in-laws and plan the party around them a little. If your significant other comes from a rather formal family, then a picnic in the park for an engagement party might not be a very wise idea. You don\u2019t have to plan the entire<\/em> party around them, but it\u2019s still respectful to take their needs into consideration.<\/p>\n You might not believe this, but some couples are guilty of getting way too over-excited about their recent engagement that their engagement party actually beats their wedding day. This is a huge mistake, and you should definitely keep your big day in mind when planning your engagement party! Don\u2019t go all out, because then planning an even better wedding party will be difficult.<\/p>\n The team at St. Elias Centre has been providing expert advice for Ottawa brides and grooms-to-be for many years. From engagement parties and weddings to corporate events and trade shows, St. Elias Centre is one of Ottawa\u2019s premiere event centres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Around two to three months after getting engaged, the majority of us will organize an engagement party and invite all our closest friends and family, and our future spouse\u2019s loved ones, as well. Engagement parties provide the perfect opportunity to bring two families together and congregate with the people we love the most to celebrate …Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engagement-party","category-ottawa","category-wedding-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steliascentre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steliascentre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steliascentre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steliascentre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steliascentre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.steliascentre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378,"href":"https:\/\/www.steliascentre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions\/378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steliascentre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steliascentre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steliascentre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steliascentre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Keep The Wedding In Mind<\/h2>\n