An engagement party is a small evening event with a bar, which is easy. It is also, if you are still choosing a wedding venue, an unusually useful one: both families stand in the room, and you find out what they think without asking.
Couples who book their wedding here after holding the engagement party here are common enough that we mention it. It is not a sales tactic — it is simply that an hour in a room tells you more than any website, this one included.
How they usually run
Three to four hours in the evening, thirty to eighty people, drinks and food that is grazed rather than sat down to. Speeches are short and there are usually two.
If you are considering the wedding here as well, say so and we will walk you round properly on the night rather than leaving you to it.