Creating The Wedding Guest List
Trying to include everyone on your wedding guest list while not inviting everyone and doing so without offending anyone is near to impossible.
Before you ask your parents and in-laws to submit a list of names or an estimated number of guests they’d like to invite to your wedding, set the limits up front so there’s no confusion later.
If the wedding guest list is looking more like a celebration for your parents, you can either up add more people to your wedding guest list or threaten to hold your wedding at the local registrar or elope.
If none of these suggestions are any good (and they are paying for the wedding) then allow them the joy of having all their friends you never know they may be the life of the party.
After you’ve agreed on a tentative number of guests, you can go out looking for venues with a much more realistic idea of what will accommodate your group as well as your budget.
It is said that you can expect 10% of people will decline an invitation - don't bank on that statistic in your wedding budget - nearly everyone loves a going to a wedding and near or far will go to great lengths to get there; whether its the romance or the free grog or perhaps a little of both, we say always count on 100% attendance.
Wedding Guests Cost Money
Saving money at your wedding can be more about who not to include in the wedding guest list than who to include.
The wedding guest list contributes greatly to the overall cost of your wedding. While some wedding day items are fixed such as the wedding dress and the wedding DJ, other costs aren't and increase with the increase in wedding guests such as the food and beverages, the number of decorated tables, the bomboniere, the wait staff required etc.
It is therefore important to sit down and think long and hard about whom exactly you are inviting. Sarah may have been your best friend in Year 5, but how often do you really see her now? Uncle Bob may have always been around when you were a kid, but it is really necessary for him to come considering you haven't seen him since the day you stopped wearing nappies?
If you can keep the wedding list down to the people who really do matter to you, then you can cut costs considerably. And don't feel guilty about who you choose to share your wedding with and who you choose not to.
Editors Tip:
The easiest way to handle the wedding guest list is to put everyone down on paper first as to who you want there, allowing room for friends of your parents, then cull.
Only you can decide if the people you are inviting will make the day more special or whether they are blowing the wedding budget.
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