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Destination Wedding Etiquette Help!

KtegerKteger member
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Hi, I am new to the Knot and just started planning my Destination Wedding in Mexico! My Fiance and I would like the wedding to be small about 20. My mother had asked about a shower for me and I don't know how that works when you are not planning to invite so many people. Can you invite women to your shower if not invited to destination wedding? Do you just invite all to wedding? Also, to anyone else who had a destination wedding, with how many people you invited how many came? Any suggestions would really help!
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Re: Destination Wedding Etiquette Help!

  • saric83saric83 member
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    Welcome! :)  Regardless of local or DW, proper etiquette is that anyone invited to pre-wedding events (showers, engagement parties, bachelorette parties, etc.) need to be invited to the wedding. 

    I know some people don't follow that, but I fought my mom like crazy to ensure we followed etiquette because I've been on the other side of being invited to showers without being invited to the wedding.  Once I found out, I felt like such a dumbass for being there and hearing all about this event I wasn't even invited to.  Plus, it felt like such a slap in the face that we were good enough to come to a shower and expected to bring a present but not good enough to get an invite to the wedding. 

    For our DW, we invited about 90 (which included all kiddos), and 40 people came.  After going through our original list, we guessed we would have between 30-50 based on some of guests knowing that some of them were expecting babies, had new jobs and/or couldn't afford it. 

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  • KtegerKteger member
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    This was really helpful!! Thank you so much!
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