My husband and I have a large home group. Once a month we have our meetings together and when someone gets a big chip like 5, 10, 20 year, al anon often joins them in AA to celebrate the birthday.
We find it beneficial to hear what other alcoholics have been through, lets us know sometimes ours isn't the only on that acted that way. The A's say it is very good for them to hear our stories too, our A's say they need to hear our side too so they don't forget how many and how much they hurt others.
We find it enlightening and look forward to it, but that is us. You may be too early in recovery or it may just not be right for you. It is an individual choice. We do attend a couple open meetings here and there as well. There we have made some wonderful friends.....for us a friday night out is supper with some other program couples and then a meeting. Doesn't get any better than that.