March 3, 2009 | Author: Sonja, Tip of the week, Uncategorized, Where to Start
Your Guest List Part I
Preparing your guest list can get you down. Especially when working with a specific budget and knowing you can’t go over that cap. You then decide that you must start reducing the list and before you know it you are back to where you started.Â
So, you then ask yourself, “Who do I invite besides the parents and my siblings?” That’s easy! Start with the grandparents. Then if you have children, add them on as well alongside your siblings. Hold off on being quick to add your brother’s 2 year old, because this is where things can create a bout between siblings, and other guest that may otherwise be offended if you failed to share that they could bring along their children or their favorite nephew or niece.Â
Since my ceremony was very intimate and was a renewal of vows, I decided that I would not extend my invitation to my guest’s children, but opted to include our parents, our children, siblings, aunts and uncles. Not one cousin was invited due to the size of both families and the fact that our nephews and neices would have been intitled to a seat first. We definitely could have easily hit the 200 invitee mark.Â
We were uniting two families after 10 years of marriage! Strange; yes, but we initially eloped. In the beginning we had a guest list that consisted of 200 people within just 30 minutes of planning, but as time would reveal; “Not everyone is meant to share something so personal and so extremely sacred with you”. It was that thought that spurred our guest list down to 75, then to 50, then 35 and eventually 30.Â
Yes, some were offended but of course; “You can’t please everyone!”  Our family shared and extremely tasteful cocktail hour, and a very quiet yet entertaining dinner as we played Chrisette Michelle’s CD over and over again! Those that chose to talk did exactly that, and those that chose to enjoy the wines did so with great joy and abundance! Now imagine paying for that x’s 10! If that is what you are looking to do then; invite away, if not then keep it short and sweet! You and your guest in the end will love you more for it!
We were able to speak to every single bit of our evening because we invited all the right people!
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