Engagement Party advice?

My fiance and I are throwing ourselves an Engagement and housewarming party. i know traditionally, as the bride, my parents are supposed to host, but they are both deceased. We are having it at our new house b/c we have done a lot of work and want to celebrate it with our friends and family. we are the first of all our friends to buy a house and get married so I really don't know much about it. we are going to cook ourselves (my mother in law is going to help).. and it will be BBQ style food. i was planning on having beer, wine, soda and water, and alcohol. i'm not really sure wut to do for entertainment. we have a big tv which i was planning on hooking up a karoke machine to b/c i think that could be fun when everyone gets drunk. we are really into sports and are very laid back so it is not going to be anything really fancy. any suggestions? are we supposed ot make toats or anything? how about favors? everybody knows that we are engaged, and our wedding is still over a year away.Engagement Party advice?
Uh, I think I would call it a housewarming party. I would call it a housewarming on the invitations.





1. Cos it is really not appropriate if you host your own engagement party. If your parents are deceased, an engagement party can be hosted by older siblings, aunts, uncles . . . or hosted by groom's family.





2. Everybody already knows you are engaged. Typically, an engagement party takes place shortly after the couple becomes engaged . . . and the party is used to announce the engagement.





So . . . I would call it a housewarming party, and focus on showing everyone the new home.





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Kind of in the same boat here!! We have been together five years and we got engaged this past Feb. Our engagement party is next month and it's a luau theme. We are in our late twenties...still in college and just bought a new house around Christmas time!!! As far as people saying stuff about yall drinking...it's your party, have an awesome time with your man and all of your closest friends and family. We are still in ';party mode'; too. I mean when you work hard you need to play hard. As far as who throws your party, it doesn't matter as long as everyone is celebrating in your honor. Congrats on the house and rock on at your party!!!! There are no rules when it comes to what makes you and your hunny happy!!
Getting drunk at an engagement/housewarming party is neither classy nor appropriate.





You should hook up someone's ipod with some music--maybe get a Wii and a game of Cranium (absolutely hilarious) and Catchphrase.








If you're 24 and still in college mode and have to wait until the ';adults'; leave, what are you doing getting married?