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Party!

Our engagement party is this coming Saturday. I can honestly say that I am excited, nervous, and relieved. I'm excited because it's our engagement party! And it will be lots of fun, with drinks, dinner, dancing, seat for every booty, and all our friends and family.  I'm also getting my dress from Rent the Runway, so it should be fabulous :)

I'm nervous because it will be the first time both families will really mingle, along with all our friends. I guess it will be a nice preview to the wedding. 

And I am also relieved because it is finally here, and all the drama we encountered leading up to it will finally be over! FI's mom is hosting the party, and I am very grateful, but I feel relief that I won't have to look at millions of color combinations, or pictures of cakes, etc. We also encountered an uncomfortable situation over the weekend. FI and I did not invite a couple that is very good friends with his family. I brought up that we should invite them, but ultimately he got the say since they are friends of his family, and he felt that while they would be invited to the wedding, he wanted the E-party to be just our very close family and friends. Well, we were at a bbq this weekend and everyone was talking about our upcoming party in front of them. Then, at one point when FI and I were at the other end of the yard, FI's Mom yelled out to him "Hey, did you send E and N the invitation?" She was sitting right NEXT to them (She let us decide who to invite as long as it didn't go beyond the limit she is paying for. The invitations went from her account, but she made us send them since she didn't want to go through the work). Towards the end of the night, FI's aunt took it upon herself to invite her Son's grandmother (the grandmother is not related to FI), whom we barely know. She then invited THREE of her younger son's friends. Well, FI just told me his Mom just found this all out and is livid. She wants to send everyone on the guest list an email saying that the party is Invitation Only. She also called her sister and told her that the grandmother is not invited, and texted both cousins to tell them their friends are not invited. Oy. I am definitely feeling relief that I won't have to deal with this kind of stuff - until the wedding next year! 
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  • Oh wow. I didn't have an engagement party. My parents live 2,000 miles away and FI's parents we are not close with. Neither of us are close with our extended families. You're fortnate that you have them around and they care so much! So if you had to pick color combos and cake choices, your party sounds as big as my wedding hahaha. But it will be awesome, you will definitely have fun!

    Sucks that those people found out they weren't invited like on the spot. I hate that!! My friend flew up from DC last weekend so I went over her parents' to visit her. She announced to her mom & sis that I'm getting married and they both said "Oh awesome, Jess, so you'll be coming back home in September too!" I just smiled but in my head I'm like omg she's not invited!

                                                                     

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  • jenna8984 Yea, I would have been fine with no party, or a simple night out at a bar with appetizers. FI's mom was so excited about throwing us the party though, and wanted us to pick out decorations, and a bunch of other stuff. Mind you, the decorations aren't super fancy, she got everything online from like a distributor or something, but I know it meant a lot to her, so I let her run with it! To be honest though, I kind of thought geez this would also work as a smaller scale wedding, we totally could have just done it this way. 

    Yea we felt so bad abut them. I didn't witness the exchange itself, but I thought I heard her say something, and shortly after FI hissed at me "Did you hear what she just said??" So awkward smh. So much for being subtle! Lol
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  • lc07lc07 member
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    Fun!! Have an awesome time! I'd love to see a pic of your dress!
  • Have fun!  I've always had good luck with RTR so I bet your dress will be amazing!  I rented for my e-party too (and an outfit change for drinks after, what what!)

    Just breathe deep with the FMIL invite issues.  The party is a good mini preview of what you'll deal with for the wedding itself so try to take notes for Future Pinkcow!
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  • lc07 - I'll def post some pics :)

    JCbride2015 - Oh you fancy, huh ;) I was actually considering going to one of the RTR showrooms until I saw that you pay a fee to work with the stylist. So I was like, screw that! My coworker told me she has had excellent experiences with them, so I'm pretty excited to wear a couture dress I would never otherwise buy!

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  • KaurisKauris member
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    I rented from RTR my engagement pic dress and LOVED IT! Am now looking for one to wear to my bridal shower in three weeks...
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