July 2012 Weddings

Guest List Issues

I have been MIA the last few days.  I am trying to stay off the boards bc its a time suck for me and I have so much left to do.  It feels like every time I get something done something else comes up I hadn't expected.  Now I am stressing over our guest list!  Suddenly our guest list has gotten out of control!  We have gone from planning to have a small under 100 person wedding/reception to 175 people!  OMGosh I am freaking out!  Fi "forgot" about a  pretty large number of family members we have to invite.  People kept coming up at his dads funeral earlier this month to congratulate us (awkward) and I would be like um...your Aunt So&so isn't on our guest list and he would be like "oh yeah, I forgot"  These aren't people we can just leave off the list.  We cant invite one of your moms sisters and not the other 2 for no good reason!  They aren't family members he is less close to or doesn't like, he just "forgot" about them or didn't realize that it would be rude to not invite some of them.  I guess thank goodness I am doing our invitations so I don't have to freak out about how I am going to order more before we mail next week!  I made extra of everything just in case something happened anyway. 
:)AJ Pregnancy Ticker

Re: Guest List Issues

  • I was wondering where you went! Well that's good that you have enough invitations! Do you think most of these ppl will attend? Do you have room / budget for them all? Good luck!!
    Wedding Countdown Ticker
  • Wow, that stinks that he forgot about them until now.  Good thing you can just make some more invitations.  As Bmore pointed out, do you have room in the reception venue and budget for all of these people?  Best of luck with it all.

    Anniversary
  • Gota love our men right?! My FI did the same thing to me. He would introduce me to someone and then call her his "second" mom, I told him that she isn't on our guest list, then he tells me we must invite her!!

    Ummm, ok, why didn't you put her name down in the first place, since she is your second mom. SMH!!!
    Wedding date July 7, 2012
  • Wow men are so funny. My FI did the same thing. We went from a 75ish person wedding and atm our invites are about 180ppl lol. It's a good thing he's paying! Think of it this way, the more the merrier. At least it will be a good party :)
    Wedding Countdown Ticker
  • We can make it work at the venue with the budget.   We will be spending more than we had originally wanted to but we can make it work.   I am feeling a little better this morning than I was last night.  Thanks ladies!
    :)AJ Pregnancy Ticker
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