Is there any NON-gift giving type parties you can throw before your wedding?

your mom could host a BBQ and just call it a get together so <groom> can meet the extended family members. You could have a tea or something on that order but that's usually more formal and men don't attend as a rule.

You can, of course, have any kind of non-gift-giving party before the actual wedding day and invite who you want, but if those people aren't invited to the wedding it's not really wedding-related. It's then just a party and that's fine. You say your intention is to get everyone together, so do just that. They won't be celebrating your wedding though, celebrating your wedding would involve being at your wedding.

An engagement party is traditionally not a gift-giving event, but since you're getting married next month, I think that's not really going to work.

How about just a casual lunch/barbecue in the park style get-together? Don't make it about the wedding, and you should be fine. Generally speaking, and I'll stand corrected if I'm wrong, but I think if one is invited to a pre-wedding event, one is invited to the wedding as well.

An engagement party is not a gift giving event. Just remember the purpose of this party is for the two families to get acquainted. It is not an event to invite all your friends to.

The rehearsal dinner is for the bridal party and all involved in the ceremony.

Tell your mom you can't invite anyone to an engagement party or rehearsal dinner that is not invited to the wedding. Anyone not invited to the wedding should not be invited to any pre-wedding events.

Tell your mom to throw a family reunion or just a big party and don't connect it to your wedding. She can still invite friends, your fiance and his family.

Any and every party before your wedding can be. Just state very clearly on the invites that it is a non-gift giving party.

October is just a hop, skip, and a jump away....I would wait until AFTER the wedding and then have a party to introduce everyone to your honey. It would then just be a party...no gifts...and you won't be so scrunched for time trying to do this before the wedding.

Engagement party? And you could put in the invitation no gifts please or something like that.. Or you could just call it a pre-wedding bash or you could throw a pool party(if you or someone willing to host it has one) and call it the last splash before the plunge or something cute like that and tell people to bring food or dessert instead of gifts

Just have a dinner, male formal invites and say something like....Please no gifts etc...

But realize some people will feel obligated to get you something or give you money.

Engagement party?

Or just a party to celebrate you getting married

your mom is wrong.

if i were invited to a "consolation prize" party, i would be offended. if i were invited to a pre-party and then not invited to a wedding, i would be offended.

do not do this.