“The support we got from every single person there was insane and it was so fun,” bride Julie Polley tells PEOPLE
Julie and Kevin Polley knew that they weren’t looking for a traditional wedding, so they invited 100 guests to an engagement party, then surprised everyone by saying “I do”
One couple pulled off an amazing surprise at their engagement party, and completely shocked guests who thought they were celebrating the pair’s upcoming nuptials.
Julie and Kevin Polley invited over 100 family members and friends to their engagement party at a beautiful restaurant. What the couple didn’t tell anyone was that the celebration was actually their wedding.
“In 2023, we went on a trip to Italy and that’s where Kevin proposed. We were coming up on 10 years of dating,” Julie tells
After sharing their engagement news, the couple “took a little bit of time to just enjoy that we were engaged.” Once it came time for planning, the two realized the traditional wedding wasn’t quite what they were looking for.
“Once I realized how much planning everything would take, I had an idea. In general, we’re very much people who like to host. We like to spend time with our friends and family, but neither of us had ever really dreamed of having this huge wedding, by any means. We really wanted to have a good party, so that’s kind of where we started,” she shares.