To invite or not to invite...

luckyone08_7774238

Okay, here's my situation. I work for a Dr's office and 2 days a week they come from their base office to my town and set up shop. I work there when they come to my town, Th and Fri. When they come on Thursdays it's 1 Dr and 1 nurse. On Fridays it's another Dr and the nurse alternates between 2. And there's one lady that trained me in my position that I'm close with. So in total, out of the office of like 15 people, I work with 6 regularly. However, I call the other office and talk to almost everyone everyday (to make appointments, help, etc) as well. So it's not like I don't talk to them or that I've never met them (I've filled in at the base office before for them). My question is, do I need to invite the people in the base office if I don't usually work with along with the people I see every week, or am I okay to just invite the people I work with each week? Any help/ideas/suggestions are welcome! Thank you!

cfibelkorn

I would invite them all or invite none of them. No one will get their feelings hurt if you don't invite any of them due to "budget" reasons but you can bet there will be drama if you only invite a select few.

Decide if inviting that select few is worth everyone else in the office being mad at you.

TurtlesAllTheWayDown

You can just invite who you are close to. However, mail the invitations to their homes and try not to talk about the wedding with people who aren't invited. If they bring it up, answer politely, then change the subject.

MrsHaH101010

I think you should only invites those you are closer with, and make sure you don't talk about the wedding at work (or limit yourself as much as possible).

mandybear7

Ditto mery

I am inviting people from work that I see outside of work, not everyone.

squirrly

Only invite those you would have a drink with outside of work.  If you wouldn't consider having dinner or drinks with them on your time, why would you invite them to a party on your dime?

SummerBoston10

I agree that you only should invite the people that you are close with outside of work and to limit your wedding talk at work as much as possible.

I always find some of the responses to these types of questions weird.  Why would a co-worker, that you aren't close with, get "mad" that they are not invited to your wedding??  Why would you want to go to someone's wedding unless you were close with them?  I think it would be weird if a person I worked with, who I was not friends with outside of work, invited me to their wedding. 

luckyone08_7774238

Thanks, that's a great way to look at it! 

Kristin789

We didn't invite anyone from either of our workplaces.  We don't socialize with any of them, we've never been to their houses or out to dinner with them, we've never been to any parties they've hosted, etc.  So they aren't "friends" of ours, so we didn't invite them...