Invitiaitons?

hstaples4

Do I send invitiations out to EVERYONE as if I was having a normal in town wedding or since it is a destination wedding do I only send invites to people who we think are coming? I would love to hear what you guys are doing, thanks!

AAA13

We are sending save the dates to everyone with our wedding website information on it. We figure since Las Vegas is an informal wedding then the invites do not need to be formal. We plan on giving our flight and hotel information and whoever comes- comes.

stinkerbell6879

You send them to everyone who you decide on for your guest list and also for the number you have budgeted for. You will find that some who you think will be there will not show and those who you would never think would show, will show up. So it's better to be safe.

wiwicaty

You should send invitations to everyone in your guest list. Then you'll know who is coming or not via the RSVPs.

aegrish

It's up to you and it depends how many guests you can afford to host at your venues and what type of wedding you are looking for. We are sending them to everyone we would invite to a traditional hometown wedding- approx 150 invitations went out.  About 60 people are coming.  But if you really want to keep it limited to close family then I would recommend keeping your guest list super small, because from our experience you never know who will come and when you invite guests you can't take back the invitation or say 'we just sent it to be nice' or 'it was sent as an announcement'. 

I wanted to have a super small wedding- 20 people max, and if  it was solely up to me I would have just invited those 20 people and left it at that.  My FI's family is from a small town though and his family wanted half of their town to be invited, fortunately most of them are just coming to the AHR.

wallacje

We are sending invitations to all that we would have invited to our wedding if it was in Denver.  Which turns out is the amount of people that we can afford to host in Las Vegas.

vegasgroom

We invited teh same people we'd have invited locally; being a destination wedding should not change who you'd want at your wedding.

MVJP10

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[QUOTE]Do I send invitiations out to EVERYONE as if I was having a normal in town wedding or since it is a destination wedding do I only send invites to people who we think are coming? I would love to hear what you guys are doing, thanks!
Posted by hstaples4[/QUOTE]

<p>The general rule of thumb is to invite the people you would want to attend and number of people you can afford to host, local wedding or not.  </p>

aerinpegadrak

Send invitations to the people you want there.  You never know who will make the trip.

hstaples4

Thanks for your inputs everyone
 I just don't want anyone to get offended because they didn't get an invitiation but at the same time we want to keep it pretty small like 25 guests max. And we're already getting the inputs from family about what great aunts to send invites to and what long lost friends would love an invite.

aegrish

You have to draw the line somwhere, whether it's a traditional or destination wedding.  You can always send announcements after you are married.  We sat down and did a 'best guess' with our guest list as to who would come and who wouldnt, and we actually came pretty close to our RSVP #.  But we did have some surprises, couple people we thought for sure would come aren't, and a few people we never tought would come are.

aegrish

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[QUOTE]We are sending save the dates to everyone with our wedding website information on it. We figure since Las Vegas is an informal wedding then the invites do not need to be formal. We plan on giving our flight and hotel information and whoever comes- comes.
Posted by AAA13[/QUOTE]

why would you not have formal invites?