Creating a wedding guest list is a difficult task. Most
people can not invite an infinate amount of people and
therefore they need to limit their guests. Who are you not
inviting to your wedding?
That is a good question. Technically it is your wedding and
you should be able to include, or exclude anyone you want,
right? Well yes, technically, but weddings are like big
social parties and you are the host. Many people want
invitations and many people in your lives fall under the
category of mandatory invitations. Usually immediate family
members are invited. In most cases if you invite people
from a certain group, like cousins, you invite all your
cousins.
Your wedding is your big day, and you really should be as
happy as possible on that day, do not forget that. It is
best to remember that you want to keep the peace not only
leading up to your wedding but once it is over as well.
This is nwhy we invite people to our wedding that we don't
typically spend time with; keeping the peace within a
family is important especially when you are starting a new
life with the one you love.
But how do you decide who to invite? How do you narrow down
your choices? Here are some ideas:
Start by making a list. Write down a huge list of everyone
you could possibly invite. This way you will have a number
of maximum guests. Do not forget to include everyone your
fiancé could invite! The initial list should include
everyone you can think of that you may want to invite or
who might want to receive an invitation. Don't worry if the
list is way too long, you are going to cut the list down to
who you absolutely want to invite and who you need to
invite.
You may need help creating these lists. Make sure to get
help from your fiancé and both of the families. Your
fiancé will have to answer the same questions and
list everyone who may be invited. He should also break them
into groups. Your families may have requests on people to
invite, friends of the family or business associates. Take
everything into consideration in order to know who to
invite.
Now that you know everyone you could possibly invite break
your list into groups. Groups can be dividing into sections
like cousins, second cousins, aunt and uncles, friends of
the family, colleagues, etc. Now look at your lists and
decide if their are any groups you would prefer to exclude
from your wedding completely. Do you want to exclude all
second cousins or all children from your wedding? Maybe you
only want to invite children over a certain age or children
in the wedding party. Once you look at all the possible
guests in list form it is easier to see who you want there
and who doesn't really warrant an invitation.
The colleague question. Decide whether or not you are
inviting colleagues. If so, how many? Are you inviting many
or all or just a few which you are especially close to?
This is something that you may want to decide soon. When
your engagement is announced people may wonder whether or
not they are invited. If you decide against it you can
certainly explain that you can only afford so many guests
and family has first priority.
If your potential guest list is still too large you will
have to think of other ways to cut it. Analyze the people
left on the list. Are there people who you barely talk to?
How about people who you may have once been close to but
now you barely talk to them. Sure, maybe once you thought
they would see you getting married, but that was years ago.
These could be people you do not need to invite to your
wedding.
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Pam Kazmierczak own http://www.wedding-planning-101.com ,
an informational wedding wedsite where you can read
articles detailing steps for planning a wedding.
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