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Engagement Party Ideas
Unleash your creativity with these fun and creative engagement party ideas. From theme-based decor to interactive and relationship building games, find inspiration here!
Engagement Puzzle
An engagement party is a special time to share your big news with friends and family. What's better than a fun activity to celebrate? Share your announcement using an engagement puzzle.
Announce Your Engagement
With an engagement puzzle, you can share your news in a fun and personal way.
It's perfect for any size party, big or small.
For large groups, use more than one puzzle and break the gathering into smaller groups.
- An engagement puzzle is a personalized, unique, and creative way to announce your engagement
- It's a fun and participatory activity that involves the wedding party, friends, and family
- The surprise element of the puzzle adds excitement and flair to the announcement
- It's suitable for both intimate gatherings and large wedding party celebrations
Puzzle Considerations: When ordering your engagement announcement puzzle, consider the following to ensure that you order the best puzzle. You want the puzzle to be fun and challenging, and not too hard.
- the number of guests attending the party
- age group, interest in puzzles, and attention span
- large enough to involve everyone
- number size of the puzzle and the number of pieces
Choosing a Picture for the Puzzle: Select a picture that portrays your announcement. Include a romantic quote or poem. Make it personal. Some suggestions for the picture on the puzzle include:
- a (staged) picture of the proposal
- a simple ring box on a candle-lit table
- the words Mr. and Mrs.
- the sign on the back of a car that says "Just Married"
- for math lovers maybe 1 + 1 = 1. Let them figure it out.
- Happily Ever After
Setting Up the Perfect Reveal Environment: When planning a personalized puzzle activity, think about where your friends and family will see the big reveal. A well-designed setting can make the moment even more special. Consider:
- a seating arrangement that allows easy access to the puzzle
- soft lighting that creates a warm and welcoming atmosphere
- music that enhances the experience
Friendship Bracelets: Include the Kids
Include the kids in your engagement celebration. Kids are fun and long for ways to connect with aunts, older sisters, grandmothers, and special friends. Here is a perfect way to build on that relationship, and make them feel part of your engagement celebration. You and your partner may even want to join with the kids and make your own engagement friendship bracelet.
Use Friendship Bracelet Making Kits for girls aged 7-16. There needs to be another activity for boys if they are at the engagement party. Make the bracelets the central focus of your engagement celebration. If the kids are part of the wedding party, plan a special event just for them.
With 54 different questions and scenarios, it's designed for personal connection. Here are a few examples:
The Love Story
A great engagement party idea is to create a fun game using a custom retractable banner. This game, The Love Story, creates the opportunity for fiends and family to name significant events in a couple's relationship, and for you to reveal the big news of your engagement.
The objective of the game is for guests to match what they know about your Love Story with what is on the banner.
You will need a custom retractable banner featuring the image and wording that matches your engagement announcement.
index cards or small slips of paper, and a prize for the winner.
Display the banner and cover it with a sheet so no one can see what is on the banner. Ask guests to write one thing they know to be special about your personal Love Story.
Give examples such as how you met, the most fun you had together, admirable qualities, a funny story, how you got your nicknames or pet names that you have for each other, hobbies and interests, the first time you met, where you went on your first date, etc.
Collect the answers and read them to the group. Ask the person who you plan to be your maid of honor and best man to remove the sheet from the banner. Voila, you have announced your engagement! Reward the one closest to matching the news on the banner with a prize.
A simpler version is to not make it a game. Just remove the covering of the banner at a special moment, and raise a toast to good friends to celebrate your engagement.
Engagement Keepsake Tablecloth
A great engagement party idea is to create an Engagement Tablecloth.
Invite party guests to write expressions of congratulations, with their signature and date on a keepsake tablecloth. This memento can be displayed at your wedding, and at anniversary gatherings in subsequent years.
Get the tablecloth that adds elegance to your gathering here.
For best results use an indelible ink fine point marker. Use one color or multi-color options for your guests. We recommend hand wash only as the delicate hemstitching on this material may fray or break with machine washing.
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