Bridal Shower Invitees

amnolen · April 2012

Who are you supposed to invite to a bridal shower? Is there a limit to how many people you invite?

adamar15 · April 2012

Invite your close friends and family. When the hosts ask you for a guest list, ask them how many they are comfortable hosting.

Mrs.B6302007 · April 2012

Ditto Adamar.
I'd also like to add that just because someone is on the wedding guest list, they don't have to receive a shower invitation. It should much more intimate than the wedding.

Avion22 · April 2012

The only restriction is that everyone invited to the shower must also be invited to the wedding. But like Mrs.B said, not everyone invited to the wedding has to be invited to the shower!

If someone offeres to host a shower for you, they will probably ask you for a guest list. You should then ask the host how many people she feels comfortable hosting, then giver her a list of that many names of people on your wedding guest-list. If you are offered multiple showers, then you can split up the guest list a bit between friends and diferent sides of the family. You probalby want to make sure that there isn't much (or any) overlap on the guest list, though your mom/sisters/bridesmaids might attend multiple showers.

jmichlik · April 2012

I agree with the PP's - only invite people to the shower who will be invited to the wedding, and the shower does not need to be every woman from the wedding.

I will point out, though, that I've noticed that people from our parents' generation tend not to always see it this way. For my shower I had sent my mom, who had volunteered to throw me one, a list of people I wanted to invite. It was about 25 people I believe. However, my MIL insisted we had to invite every woman being invited to the wedding. That was 60 women... so not what I wanted. My mom tends to be the nice person who accomodates other people so she agreed and we ended up inviting all 60. Luckily for me only about 30 showed up - I hate being the center of attention, especially in front of a bunch of people I don't know, and was concerned about 60 people staring at me opening gifts. Just be prepared that you may run into someone who insists you do it this way. I wish I'd known in advance, as I would have prepared a better defense or tried to find someone more firm to help my mom say no to my MIL.

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