Engagement party

by Eddie

I'm going to be the Best Man and I'm organising a surprise engagement party for the bride to be.

I think it would be a great idea to do a murder mystery, but I don't really want it to be too complicated and too long as I feel the guests may lose interest and I have a DJ lined up also.

Are there any quite simple ones? Plus I'm renting out a function room, so it will all be happening in the function room.

I have never seen one of these before and I think as long as it lasts around two hours with buffet then would be good laugh.
Could you help please?

My response:

An engagement party? That's an interesting idea - be careful who you choose as the murderer and victim!

Anyway, the games on my site generally last between 3 and 4 hours long, including time to set up and wind down. They're aimed at taking up an entire evening - I think you'd struggle to get them down to two hours.

But it might be fun to try.

Probably the biggest issue you're likely to have is the number of guests - I imagine an engagement party could be pretty big, but there are fewer murder mystery party games for lots of guests.

If you do decide to go down this route, I strongly suggest that you do a dry run first and host one of the parties for a different group. Engagement parties are pretty important - and you wouldn't want to mess it up through inexperience!

Click here for tips on choosing the right murder mystery party for you.