Adorable feature I just noticed on Wedding Wire Planning Tools --

grumbledore · February 2014

I like the WW tool for seating chart so I decided to add my guest list so I could work on it -- when you enter a guest's name, it allows you to choose "A List, B List, C List."

As if B-Listing wasn't bad enough, you can actually have a C-List! And it must be ok, because otherwise it wouldn't be an option, right?

misshart00 · February 2014

TK has a B-list option too. But wow to the C list. When do you send their invitations? The day of the wedding?

grumbledore · February 2014

C-Listers get a text message the morning of inviting them to come after dinner for whatever scraps are left and to enjoy the cash bar!

manateehugger · February 2014

Man, I hope they offer you these lists as a way of prioritizing and cutting your list (i.e. A's are the must invite, B's are the will invite if we have room in the budget).....but I'm going to guess not.

happywiggle · February 2014

Never heard of a "C" list. What, do they get the invite the morning of the wedding?

cowgirl8238 · February 2014

PDKH said:

Man, I hope they offer you these lists as a way of prioritizing and cutting your list (i.e. A's are the must invite, B's are the will invite if we have room in the budget).....but I'm going to guess not.

Actually that was my first thought too...as in its not meant to be an actual B-List but more of a non-VIP who would like to have list.. Althoug I still don't know what the C-List would be...

But I would guess that some people (on either site) would take that to mean that you can actuall B-List your invites based on that option.

Cookie Pusher · February 2014

EllieAugust · February 2014

I used the terms during my planning process...I don't think they need to have a bad connotation. However, I realize that they mostly are used in a negative way!

A List meant VIP must be invited. Sending Save the Dates

B List meant we plan on inviting. close friends distance family, etc that we just didn't send STDs

C List we would like to invite and plan to invite as long as additional people don't come out of the wood work before invitations get sent (ex. Cousin Joe gets a girlfriend that needs to be added, or long lost Aunt Sally actually has 3 kids instead of the two that I was told about)

grumbledore · February 2014

EllieAugust said:

I used the terms during my planning process...I don't think they need to have a bad connotation. However, I realize that they mostly are used in a negative way!

A List meant VIP must be invited. Sending Save the Dates
B List meant we plan on inviting. close friends distance family, etc that we just didn't send STDs
C List we would like to invite and plan to invite as long as additional people don't come out of the wood work before invitations get sent (ex. Cousin Joe gets a girlfriend that needs to be added, or long lost Aunt Sally actually has 3 kids instead of the two that I was told about)

If used this way, I think it's fine, as long as all invites go out at the same time and are honored.

climbingsingle · February 2014

Wow. Can you imagine finding out that you weren't B listed, you were C listed?? Ouch.

happywiggle · February 2014

EllieAugust said:

I used the terms during my planning process...I don't think they need to have a bad connotation. However, I realize that they mostly are used in a negative way!

A List meant VIP must be invited. Sending Save the Dates
B List meant we plan on inviting. close friends distance family, etc that we just didn't send STDs
C List we would like to invite and plan to invite as long as additional people don't come out of the wood work before invitations get sent (ex. Cousin Joe gets a girlfriend that needs to be added, or long lost Aunt Sally actually has 3 kids instead of the two that I was told about)

I'm using TKs A/B list in the similar way. A get's STD as they are VIPs/must haves, B does not and are the "don't want to cut, but will if I absolutely have to" list. However, all invitations will be sent at the same time. We just prioritized early to make the finalization when we send invitations out easier. Now, if I can just get FI to realize that--he actually wanted to B LIST people as in "A declined, B now gets an invite". If you could only imagine the argument that ensued on how WRONG that is...

I'm guessing that TK, WW, etc did not have that intention when they did that though

misshart00 · February 2014

By the time you're doing the seating chart though, does it matter what list they were on?

happywiggle · February 2014

misshart00 said:

By the time you're doing the seating chart though, does it matter what list they were on?

In my case, nope. It's just a matter of planning for if some outrageous, unplanned expense pops up, and we have to trim the guest list. I'm a pessimist by nature, so I'm trying to prepare for the worst if it happens, but hoping for the best.

misshart00 · February 2014

amrhodes23 said:

misshart00 said:

By the time you're doing the seating chart though, does it matter what list they were on?

In my case, nope. It's just a matter of planning for if some outrageous, unplanned expense pops up, and we have to trim the guest list. I'm a pessimist by nature, so I'm trying to prepare for the worst if it happens, but hoping for the best.

Oh I totally get that. But I mean for the people who are doing the b list the rude way.

kgd7357 · February 2014

EllieAugust said:

I used the terms during my planning process...I don't think they need to have a bad connotation. However, I realize that they mostly are used in a negative way!

A List meant VIP must be invited. Sending Save the Dates

B List meant we plan on inviting. close friends distance family, etc that we just didn't send STDs

C List we would like to invite and plan to invite as long as additional people don't come out of the wood work before invitations get sent (ex. Cousin Joe gets a girlfriend that needs to be added, or long lost Aunt Sally actually has 3 kids instead of the two that I was told about)

This is kind of how we did. Although our C's were more of a stretch, and it doesn't look like we can add any of them. The B's didn't get STDs, but will be invited at the same time as everyone else, we still had to cut about 4 off this list though.

Rebl90 · February 2014

A good friend of mine was just telling me how she recently got a call from a friend inviting her to said friend's wedding THE NEXT DAY because, "a table of 4 opened up and I have to have my BFF there!!!!"

She declined. I almost fell out of my chair when she told me the story.

KittyKaty20 · February 2014

When PLANNING...we used a C-list. (Originally had over 300 names on fantasy guest list.)

A's for must-invite.

B's for would like to invite if budget/space allows.

C-list for us stood for "Contingent". As in, would my co-workers from when we got engaged in April 2013 still be my co-workers when invites go out almost a year later. Or, if we have John W. (whose nieces are in my WP) do the ceremony music (one of his roles at our church), will he have his wife sing, and will we invite them both to the reception...

That being said, ALL invites will go out at the same time.

ashleyep · February 2014

Not all "B Lists" mean send out invites after responses are received. I have a B List in the sense that if I need to cut anyone when I send out invites, they'll be the first to go. When initially drafting your guest list, I could make see using a C list.

ETA: But the WW seating chart tool is based off of your guest list I believe, so it makes sense that that would be in there.

Fancypantsamy · February 2014

I used that tool - I didn't send save the dates but I did send all invitations at the same time. The A List and B List separated people I could cut if our budget to tight before invitations went out. I added a C list as a way to account for the fact that I had a lot of single people on the list and knew I would be engaged for a long time. The C List was filled with names like "Date Jane Doe" and "Date John Smith" - that way if all of my friends got in relationships before the wedding, I knew I had them all accounted for and could be a gracious host, but they were obviously going to get cut from the list if the attached friend was still super single when invitations went out.

I have to say, I'm really glad I budgeted and planned like that, because the 12 dates my friends and cousins didn't need ended invited felt like a little bit of a pre-wedding bonus - extra money I planned on spending that I got to keep.

theartistformerlyknownas · February 2014

KittyKaty20 said:

When PLANNING...we used a C-list. (Originally had over 300 names on fantasy guest list.)
A's for must-invite.
B's for would like to invite if budget/space allows.
C-list for us stood for "Contingent". As in, would my co-workers from when we got engaged in April 2013 still be my co-workers when invites go out almost a year later. Or, if we have John W. (whose nieces are in my WP) do the ceremony music (one of his roles at our church), will he have his wife sing, and will we invite them both to the reception...
That being said, ALL invites will go out at the same time.

We had kind of the same thing, since I had JUST started a new job 2 weeks before getting engaged. It was the "will we be close enough in 6 months for you to get invited?" list. But they were labeled that way... we have a Family list, a Close Friends list, a Coworkers List, a Maybes list, etc, all in one big pivot table. All determinations will be made when we send invites though, no second thoughts after. (Save the Dates aren't going to everyone.) At least this way we're budgeting for all those coworkers and their spouses.

edandy · February 2014

Maybe it means like

A=brides family

B=grooms family

C=friends

Idk that's how I would/will use that tool.

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