Invitations/Guest List

What to do when you can only invite so many people to your wedding? Well we are going to have a send off celebration the weekend before the wedding. We will invite wedding guest as well as all other friends and extended family who we could not invite to the wedding due to budget and venue size.  This way we will still get a chance to celebrate our engagement and wedding with as many of our friends and fam as possible by the end of our Official I do's.  I have heard all kinds of horror stories about church members or co-workers or extended family and friends that you know through your own friends etc... getting mad at the non invite.  Considering I am from LA and having our wedding in Cali our guest list could easily get up to 300. 

Some helpful hints from other brides and blogs about how to get your list down focus on the folks who know the both of you as a couple. Focus on the folks who you can call up on the phone and vise versa in the past year or two.  Try to stick to immediate family and friends who you have been in constant contact with during the course of your relationship.  If that still does not get the list down start thinking about partners, if its a brand spanking new relationship ask you friend if they mind if you could just invite you and not the partner.

All in all it is about the bride and groom and close friends and family witnessing the union.  If it gets all dramatic with people they are steering away from the matter at hand and that is that you two want the moment that will change your life forever to be about the two of you and not other people.  Hopefully our send off celebration will allow the extended friends and family to have fun and feel part of the celebration that is my prayer.