I was wondering how everyone else is approaching coworker invites. I work at a hospital as a nurse and I have everyone from case management, liaisons, speech, you name it coming and asking about their invites. Obviously I cannot invite anyone....and part of me thinks they just want an invite and they don't actually plan on coming because the wedding is 6 hours away....but I don't want to just give a massive invite like how all the nurses on my unit have in the past (with exception of one which was an island destination wedding-we've had 6 weddings since I've started). I don't want to do the massive invite because I know people have shown up in groves. I honestly wasn't going to invite anyone just to make everyone on the same page but there are a select few people that are almost like my work mothers that I sort of want to invite (nearly everyone I work with is a good 20 years older than me). I am afraid if I do this, I risk upsetting people. Especially because one (that I wasn't going to invite) I have personally seen looking into making a vacation out of it for the family by going to Cedar Point as well that weekend. Anyway, so I just thought it would be interesting to see what others are doing. Thanks!
Re: Coworker invites
I agree with PP, though. Invite those that you are close to and mail them to their homes.
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It sounds like my situation is different from yours though. No one besides my close work friends have asked about invites (and of course they know they're invited) and I think most of them will be just as happy to not be invited.
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For that reason, I have only allotted space for the law firm partners. They are more on par with office "friends".
There was one secretary from the office, that I would have loved to include, but, we are such good friends, i skipped the headache, and is she is a bridesmaid in the wedding. Problem solved!
My unit actually has about 100 employees on it throughout the day...so it is weird...it isn't a traditional unit because of that....You would think more employees would make it so the relations are not as close but that is not necessarily the case. I do go out with about 15 of the girls 1-2x's a month for dinner and drinks and we know alot about each others business. I still consider nearly all of them coworkers only though...so I think I am still leaning on not inviting anyone. After thinking more about it, I know how everyone talks (as I work with 95% women) and I think it might be easiest for me to just start saying no one is invited and blame it on budget.
Although....I am looking for a new job anyway...maybe I can get out before formal invites to avoid actually saying no one is truly invited. Probably shouldn't count on that though!