How to Celebrate Getting Engaged During COVID-19

Since the beginning of quarantine and the world-wide COVID-19 pandemic, it is evident that everyone has been affected in one way or another. In particular, brides and grooms who were planning to have their wedding during the craziness of the Coronavirus.

Some people chose to post-pone and others accommodated to the requirements and made it work with limited guests and social distancing. Overall, this pandemic has made everyone get creative to celebrate big life moments like graduations, marriages, birthdays, etc.

Grant and I got engaged in August and with school, spring break, and everything going on with our social lives, we decided to celebrate our engagement at a later date.

Unfortunately, our later date was right when Coronavirus started to hit hard.

After looking at lots of drive-by showers, zoom parties, and celebrations of that sort, we decided to have a drive by/ pop by engagement party at our house. In other words, people could drive by or stay for a while if they were comfortable with that.

We picked out a Paperless Post online invitation and emailed them to close friends and family the week of the event. We also printed out the invitation and gave them to our neighbors.

It wouldn’t have been possible without my sweet family!

My mom had this Rifle Paper and Co. paper on hand and whipped up this adorable sign for us. My aunt brought the blue lanterns for us to use and they were the perfect, cozy touch!

The dress I wore was from J.Crew last year. (linked a similar one here)

We had yummy summer cocktails (leaded and unleaded as my mom would say) and light snacks of popcorn, cheese, and assorted nuts.

We also had a table set up by the road for those driving by to get a bag of popcorn and a drink (we handed out our drinks in these plastic disposable wine glasses)

We stressed the fact that if people wanted to stay, visit and have a drink; we were okay with that. If they wanted to drive by and take a water and popcorn to go, that was perfect too!

I am very thankful that at least the pandemic happened during a time of year where we can enjoy being outside! Take advantage of that if you are trying to plan a Coronavirus-friendly event. We had more than enough room being outside in our front driveway and everyone was free to be as close, or as far a part as they pleased.

We put together the individual packaged popcorn bags and my mom made the tags to tie on them. It was a great way to pass around a little something to snack on without a lot of contact or double dipping.

Everything we used and passed to our guests, like these plastic wine glasses, were disposable and not super expensive.

Throughout this whole pandemic, people are on lots of different levels with social distancing. We wanted to be respectful of that and take it seriously, but we were also dying to hug everyone’s necks and catch up face-to-face.

Any event you choose to go to is at your own risk. However, I think the key to throwing any type of get together during these times is to have options, be respectful of space, and be flexible.

Thanks for reading!