SMALL Engagement "Party" Ideas

Every guest gets a bingo card and has to get up and socialize to tick off their squares. The squares say things like "find someone who has a dog" or "find someone who watches soap operas". Its a good ice breaker game. Winner gets a prize. Hope this helps

I used to play that in college the first day of classes each semester. I hated it lol, but I'm not terribly outgoing or social. It's not a bad idea. I could make it Hallowe'en themed and oooh make up the cards on InDesign or something which I always like.

Honestly...I'd hate any kind of "get to Know" game. You're giving a party for adults, not 5 year olds. If they can have polite conversation and make small talk with people they dont know, then there is some severe lack of social skills going on.

Honestly, if everyone is an adult and you're serving food and drinks, that should be enough to entertain people. If it's a really small group, you could have people share stories about how they know you guys or, say, your best friend's first impression of your fiancé when she met him or something like that but I would trust that people know how to walk around and socialize at cocktail type party.

Edit: What Maltese said.

Games are for children's birthday parties. Provide good food, drink and atmosphere, adults are 100% capable of having a great time with that.

Also - you really shouldn't be throwing your own engagement party. If you want to have a Halloween party go for it, but keep your wedding separate.

What Emmy said.

OK, but *why* can't we throw our own party? No one else is going to throw one for us. Maybe it's technically called something different, but it's a party because we are engaged and planning a wedding. Is there some massive (legitimate) etiquette thing I'm missing here for why we can't throw our own party?

I don't get not throwing your own engagement party. Sure you don't throw your own showers or bachelorette. But why not your own engagement? Isn't the point of that to make sure everyone a part of the wedding has a chance to meet each other? No one would really know who everyone is necessarily...except the bride and groom.

I think it's perfectly fine to throw an engagement party.

I think it's ok too. We didn't have one but if you want to have a party with your friends and family to celebrate your engagement I think it's fine