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!