Guide to Organize an Engagement Party

 

Congratulation on Your Engagement! We are very happy for both of you. Now we know that you have a substantial monumental task before you on how to plan your wedding. But first and foremost, you want to organize your engagement party to invite your close friends and family.

If you want to organise an engagement party, why not hire the best wedding planner in Bhubaneswar, who can take care of all of your needs. However, if you want to do it yourself, we have a guide which will make your engagement go smoothly and seamlessly.

Here are the steps that you should follow for a splendid engagement party.

Set a Date!

Take in all the factors when it is convenient for you and your guests, particularly close friends and family who might need to travel from out of town to be a part of it. Perhaps the most crucial factor will be when you decide and figure out when the party would be most enjoyable for you.

Depending on your engagement length, you may throw a party after the proposal to six months into the wedding planning. You can even schedule engagement just before a few days before the wedding. Absorb your newly engaged status before jumping into planning your first party. At the tis period, you can also decide on your guest size, style and location of your wedding.

Plan a Budget

Decide on a budget which you are comfortable with. You don’t want to throw away your wedding budget on the engagement party. The budget will help you decide on the marriage venue in Bhubaneswar, decorations, menu, and the number of guests you can invite.

 Get the Place that matches the formality

When it comes to the engagement party, one of the most important decisions to make is to host it. You can choose a beautiful restaurant, banquet hall, garden area, open spaces. But there’s no reason that you have to limit yourself at these options. Get any spot from an art gallery to a beach. Just like the wedding venue, the Place should match the personality and style that you have.

But as you plan for the engagement party, keep in mind that the engagement party should not upstage the wedding. Try to keep a different mood for the engagement party.

Think about the Guest List

There is one foremost important rule: the guest invited to your engagement party should also be asked to your wedding. So, before thinking about inviting everyone, make sure that you have your wedding guests list ready too. You don’t want a 200-person engagement party and then later on 100-person wedding. If you can't decide whom to invite and whom to leave from your list, invite only your closest friends and family.

Invitation for Engagement party

For the engagement party attendance, send out the invites in advance. Let your guest know what you are planning through phone calls in case the invites are sent late. E- invite has become the trend today, and it would look appropriate considering your engagement party.

Decide on a menu.

Another essential element when organizing an engagement party is, of course, the food. You can have a variety of cuisines or add something relating to the theme of the party. Add some personalization to the food and drink by featuring cuisine from an extraordinary date or vacation. This is a beautiful time to introduce some of your favourite foods for your loved ones.

 

 Think about décor

Give the décor some attention, but don’t overthink it. For Wedding decoration in Bhubaneswar, the organizers match your wedding's style or colours perfectly, or even at all, for your engagement party. When in doubt, make it simple—a bunch of fresh or paper flowers will immediately perk up any location.

 Prepare to dress the part

Your first party as a to-be-wed couple deserves appropriate outfits. As you shop for something fresh, keep the party location and venue in mind. For the bride-to-be, aside from the apparent pick something that won’t eclipse your wedding outfit but is unique enough that you’ll nevertheless stand out from your guests.

And for the groom-to-be, while you don’t have to wear a suit and tie- unless the venue calls for it—you should match your spouse to be level of formality.