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Co-worker invites. What to do?

FI is an electrician working as an engineer in a local high rise, he has a good working relationship/friendship with his boss. He would like to invite his boss to our wedding but worries about whether or not that would mean he would have to invite everyone. The ladies who work in the office absolutely love him. They were so excited for us when we got engaged and wanted to hear all about it. He wouldn't call any of the engineers friends and doesn't feel particularly close to any of them. His boss recently got married and told FI he wanted to invite some people but that it was either invite everyone or invite no one in his opinion. We just can't afford to invite everyone as we both have large families and the guest list is already close to 150 people. So can we get away with just inviting his boss to the wedding or does it have to be an all or nothing type of invite?


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Re: Co-worker invites. What to do?

  • I had the same problem with deciding on who to invite with my coworkers.  Only invite those people he is closest with. People understand that weddings are expensive and that because of the size of families you can't invite everyone. 
  • How many people work there?  FI and I each work at small offices (I work at 2, he works at one).  We're talking between 6-15 people at the most for coworkers.  We both thought that it was either all or none (with the exception of the bosses). We just invited our bosses for the same reason, we were already at the number of guests we wanted, and to add all the coworkers + guests would have been too much.  I will add though that while I refer to them as coworkers, we are more like bosses to them due to the positions we work, respectively.
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  • I'd go ahead and invite them! Chances are they won't come if ya'll aren't really close!
  • I think you can get away with inviting a direct boss but no other co-workers without hurt feelings, especially if despite the friendship with the ladies, you guys don't usually socialize with them outside of work.  Although perhaps it wouldn't hurt to let the boss know that he's the only person invited from the office.
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  • Thank you everyone! He works with probably 15-20 other people. So that's a lot plus their SOs to invite. Thanks again for all your help and advice!
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  • We invited co workers, but we only invited the ones that we are both close to and we both work within bigger companies so we only work directly with a handful of people.  I do not think it is necessary to invite all or don't invite at all, but that is just my opinion.
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  • it's different for only the boss to be invited than it is for the boss to invite only one of his employees. i'd say go ahead and invite the boss :)
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