We're recently engaged and thinking about having an engagement party. I've read that it's okay to throw your own engagement party since it isn't a gift receiving event, and it's just more of a "Hey, we're engaged! Let's celebrate!" type of thing. Would it be weird to throw our own? I've ready plenty about people throwing their own.
The wedding won't be until 2015, but from everything I've heard, the engagement part should be held within two months of getting engaged. Should we wait longer to have ours since our wedding is so far away?
As for guest list, we were thinking of just inviting immediately family and the people we're going to ask to be in the wedding party (so maybe a total of 25-30 people). Is that considered rude not to invite all the guest, or is it okay to have it be smaller?