Comments on: The Invite Slash To Save Wedding Cash

By: Kim

Kim — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:24:11 +0000

Thank you!!!!! This post has made me feel a lot better about some of the cuts I had to do to my guest list.

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By: veronica

veronica — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:33:15 +0000

I REALLY wish I had read something like this before sending out invites. I ended up inviting more people than I should have/wanted to…it's soooo easy to get sucked in once you are looking at a list of 50, 100 or 250 people 'o, well, if I invited Mr. and Mrs. xxx, then I'll invite mr. and Mrs. 123 too!". And in the end, how many of us have actually been offended/hurt/mad about not getting an invite to someone's wedding? Believe me, less is more!!!

By: Bekah

Bekah — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:06:46 +0000

THANK YOU!! My wedding is next May and we're doing a backyard wedding which requires us to stick to a strict guest list so everyone will fit in the space comfortably. This post was a huge inspiration to me and the timing couldn't have been more perfect. My fiance and I put together our guest list together, complete with different colors and categories for each guest "type", this weekend and we did it all without a major fight!

By: lizcharm

lizcharm — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:21:40 +0000

Yeah, communication is really important. It's a big part of managing expectations. And not letting singles bring a guest DOES help.

By: lizcharm

lizcharm — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:09:57 +0000

Yes, having nearly died once a few years ago, I can totally agree with you on that one! It's all about priorities, and it's sad sometimes that something like that has to happen to show us what they are. But I'm so glad that you're doing better now and you've only got a few weeks until the big day! Do me a favor? Enjoy it.

By: olga

olga — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:44:38 +0000

I think it depends on who's paying for the wedding…if its the parents of the bride then it might be a bit difficult to cut the list on their end, but on the other hand the guests on the parents of the groom side can be limited. If you and the fiance are paying then I say the choice is yours! I started out with 100 guests….now I'm inviting about 135 and expecting about 110 – 115 to come so not too bad. I really was very adoment about not having a ginormous wedding and I have been voicing my opinion all along. And we're not letting singles bring a date…..even if I have to have 10 separate convo's about it with all of them if you're single you're coming alone….bc I can't accomodate (I really cant bc the ballroom isnt big enough) all of them…that has cut things down a bit.

By: melissa

melissa — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:57:34 +0000

Our wedding was originally supposed to be Sept 09 (it's now this Sept), but I got really really ill between the proposal and the wedding and we had to postpone it while I had a bone marrow transplant. So one unexpected upside of this was that it made it really easy to prune the guest list this year – Does so&so know I'm even alive, or do they think the wedding has already happened? If Yes, not going on the guest list.

Funny how nearly dying sorts our your priorities and shows you who your true friends are!