My fiance and I got engaged at the end of August 2014 but we're having a long engagement and the wedding is set for May 2016. His family is in NY and my family is in MO so we're wanting to have an engagement party to have the families meet but the problem is with family schedules the soonest possible timeframe would be March 2015. Is this too far away from our proposal to host an engagement party? If it is what other options do we have to bring the families together prior to the wedding?