This weekend just past we finally got around to hosting our engagement party, which with rather little preparation - I'm glad to say was a complete success!
Due to my fiancé being in the defence forces (and thus posted away from home) it was always going to be tricky arranging a date and more for the engagement party. It had to be something that we could easily cancel/rearrange in case something came up that prevented my fiancé from being here on the day.
So we started scouting local parks. We had to be pretty picky about what we were looking for in a park.
We needed shelter since it's rained almost every day at the moment.
We wanted a fairly quiet park - so we wouldn't be fighting with other people for seats etc
However we still wanted a nice park - not something that was really empty for a bad reason!
We wanted a working BBQ
We wanted public toilets (ideally clean!)
And a park with a playground was ideal for how many children were going to be in attendance.
And I'm surprised to say - we found exactly that. Mill park located in Beerwah (behind the shell service station) was PERFECT! It had a BBQ that looked like it had maybe been used once EVER before, a great big undercover shelter with 2 tables (handy when there was a 5 minute sun shower), great big (CLEAN!!!) toilet facilities. We were the only people there (we found out that the park was a magpie nesting area and up until recently magpies had been swooping dangerously - however nesting season has just recently finished at this time of year!) and there was a great park for all the kids (big and small) to run around in - not to mention a fairly decent stream of trains going past for the kids to wave at!
The whole affair only cost us about $120 in food, drink and a few party supplies like balloons, from all appearances everyone had a great day and we certainly enjoyed ourselves!
What I DID learn from the day however was - there is never going to be enough sausages or soft drink, don't buy cheap balloons at the last moment (they WILL constantly pop on you!) And running around after kids is actually really tiring! Big kudos to all the mums out there - you guys do an amazing job on a daily basis - but getting a 14 month old to smile when he's having a sook is so beautiful and rewarding that it's worth it :)
I guess now I have no reason to procrastinate planning for the wedding ... right?
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