Hello again!

This week I will be talking about the stressful part of planning a wedding-the invite list. This has seemed to be the most stressful part thus far about wedding planning, ONLY because my fiancé has such a large family and friend group. We both decided we didn’t want our guest list to exceed 80 people, so we definitely have some choosing to do seeing as my fiancés family takes up about half the list. I have found it really difficult to chose with friends as well, as we both have friends from work, golf, childhood, etc that we all want there, even though we might not have seen them as frequently as we wanted in last few years.

I have found a really helpful instagram video that narrowed down reasoning for inviting friends, and how to really slim down your list without feeling so guilty. The main tip she mentioned was stay organized!! As well as to use a process of elimination.

I also found another blog website that discusses many more important tips to eliminate stress and hassle when narrowing down a wedding invite list.

How to downsize wedding guest list

1. Start Early
2. Create your wedding A-List
3. Talk to Your Parents and In-Laws Early About Who They’d Like to Invite
4. Limit Children
5. Stand your ground
6. Cut out Plus-Ones
7. Eliminate people you work with
8. Only invite people who will be part of your future.

I found these tips to be extremely helpful, and after hearing about other brides having the same issue, it made me feel not so alone in the process. I also found myself feeling so guilty about cutting people who I haven’t been close to, but have to remind myself that it’s our wedding day and we are paying for it and only want to have people that are a big part of our lives. We both don’t want to look back and have people that we weren’t close with, or weren’t going to be a part of our future.

That’s all for now! Back to planning a wedding!

Megan