Okay here’s my situation: We got married on June 23rd, 2012.
We invited 297, reception held 300, we had about 220 rsvp and that’s the number we gave our caterer 10 days before the wedding day. Had a wonderful wedding! Then the next day (June 24th), I was checking the photos my mother put up on her facebook account and there’s a picture of a couple that my mom took a picture of that we didn’t know from the reception. They had written their name in our guestbook and gave us a card and gift. MY MOTHER INVITED GUESTS WITHOUT TELLING US. We paid for the catering ourselves, and she kept pushing me to invite everyone and their brother, even if I had only met them once in my entire life or never at all, AFTER WE HAD OUR NUMBERS IN! She wanted her friends to come, which I allowed her a list of people she wanted to see there when we originally made our guest list months before. I thought I was being fair, and she wasn’t. What do I do? Should I write a thank you to the uninvited guests?