嗨Lovelies！今天另一个订婚/婚礼主题帖子，我答应最终我会发布somethingelse, but I thought I'd get this post up while it was still fresh in my mind to do so! So, I mentioned in my伴娘礼品post and myEngagement Party OOTDthat I'd get a post up all about our Engagement Party, what we did, why we did it, who we invited and some little DIY's that I did for the day!

So, we held our Engagement party at my Parent's house and had a garden party that started in the afternoon and went on into the night. We decided to do it this way as we wanted a really chilled, relaxed environment for everyone to get to know each other and socialise before the wedding. We kept it fairly small and only invited those would be invited to the wedding, some people may not agree but I think this is quite important, we're keeping the wedding quite small as you can definitely go crazy on the guest list, so I didn't want to invite anyone to the engagement party who then wouldn't be getting an invite for the big day! The main thing for us was to get the majority of the two families together so that they'd at least know who everybody was when the wedding comes around.


我们使装饰品相当少，但我确实想要DIY只是有点个人触感。我最喜欢的事情之一是这个'D Heart C'挂标志。我只是通过将字母切出厚厚的卡片并粘合到他们身上的纸巾。它真的很便宜，真的很容易制作。粉红色和蓝色的彩旗来自范围，流苏束是我在Pinterest上发现的DIY。我甚至不会试图描述它，所以如果你想给它去，我用了thistutorial! I got the tissue paper from card shops as I used the kind that you'd typically use to wrap presents, if you could though, I'd recommend using craft shop tissue paper, as the kind I used had creases!

Something that went down really well, particularly with Darren's nieces and nephews, was our party favours. For these, I used cellophane bags filled with various treats. I used Popcorn for the 'He Popped The Question' bags, Party Ring biscuits for the 'He Put a Ring on it' bags and Peppermint Rock for 'She Got Her Rock'. I really loved how these turned out. They were really easy to make, but I did have to make 50 in total, so it took a while. I enlisted the help of my sister with these so that saved some time and I did the rock bags in advance as the sweets were wrapped. If you're going to do the popcorn or party rings though, I'd keep it to the night before or morning of, as they can go stale if they're not tied tight enough!




One thing I'd高度建议做，如果你可以这款宝丽来留言。我已经有了宝丽的相机，我刚买了很多电影来替换一天晚上，晚上可以从派对中捕捉照片（这只是我们得到的一小部分！）并坚持下去贴纸和签名他们的名字或给我们留言。我认为我们甚至可以在我们的婚礼之日内再次做这种事情，因为我喜欢这样的傻图片，它非常可爱，无法回新。

我绝对喜欢我们的订婚派对，我很高兴我们这样做了我们的方式，因为它很可爱，几乎每个人都会在一起参加婚礼，并以如此寒冷的方式相互了解。就像白天一样，我们刚刚为每个人都有完美的自助餐，因为我们没有做任何太正式的事情，每个人都可以选择并选择他们想要的东西。我的妹妹和我也做了一个巨大的完全素食主义者蛋糕，我不能为我的生活找到一张照片，但这令人沮丧，我非常高兴 - 作为一个素食主义者，你无法帮助当人们喜欢你的食物时，感觉稍微沾沾自喜！

To finish this post, I thought I'd share a few quick tips for anyone throwing an Engagement party - this is just my opinion, of course you can throw your party any way you like!

• Keep it simple, too many organised activities or forced dancing can feel very awkward and uncomfortable for people who don't know each other too well yet.
• Invite only your wedding guests. I think it comes across a little rude inviting anyone who won't be coming to the big day. If you're having a very small wedding, or are planning to elope though, it could be nice to throw an engagement party for those who won't be attending, but I'd make this clear from the get go.
• 期待礼物，但不要让它成为一个大不了的事！我们根本没有要求或期望礼物，但我们的朋友和家人非常慷慨。我们保持低调，并将任何礼物放在另一个房间，以便任何没有带来一些东西的人都不会感到尴尬。我们等到派对后才能打开他们并发出个人谢谢你的贺卡。
• Say thank you! This ties in with the last point, I do think you should send thank you cards toeveryone,不只是那些带礼物的人。你邀请的每个人都努力成为那里，我认为认识到这一点非常重要。
• Make an effort to introduce people and chat to everyone. I made sure that I introduced everyone to each other so that everyone knew who they were talking to and I tried my best to take some time to get around and talk to everybody. As I said before, they've made an effort to be there and the least you can do is give them a moment or two of your time!

So, that's it! I've kept this post as short as possible, but if there's anything else you'd like to know, I'd be more than happy to answer any questions in the comments!