I've never been to a surprise engagement party before and didn't quite know what to expect.
Or who was supposed to be surprised.
I thought of several possibilities. All involved hiding in a closet with several hundred other guests waiting for the signal to jump out jump out and yell Surprise!!!!
1. A random young man and a random young woman are pulled off the street, introduced to each other. And - Surprise! You are engaged!
2. A secretive young man has never told his parents he has ever gone out, let alone asked his the woman he has been dating for three years to marry him, and thought it would be hilarious to let his parents know by getting them to his Kallah's house for the engagement party, on some lame pretext.
3. A young man and woman are "unofficially" engaged in that that they have selected a wedding date, but are not "engaged".
We get to the house and ... do you guess scenario # 1? scenario # 2? or scenario # 3?
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The actual event was closest to scenario # 3, although the happy couple got "officially" engaged the night before the party, so there was no actual jumping out of the closet yelling Surprise!!!
So although I was disappointed about the closet part, it was an incredible party. And we go back a really long time with the Chason's family and it was great to share in their simcha. And we got to see Moshe before we went. So it was definitely worthwhile going. Did I mention there was great food?
The invitation (with the names of the happy couple white-ed out)
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I think we should try number one. There are enough random young men and women at Rutgers.
And don't even think of making me the random guy. Remember I'm the one who not only found out about his surprise party, but actually got class to end 30 minutes early, so I could get home in time to beat the set-up.
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