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Simple As ABC
Fab Wedding Advice – Part 5 of a 10-part series
Struggling with deciding who to invite, and how to deal with guest numbers, as people accept your wedding invitation or are unable to attend? Avoid your wedding invite woes by splitting up potential guests into groups – A, B, C, maybe even D.
Put the most important guests in group A, and the least in group C or D. Then send out invitations one group at a time in order of A to D. But only send each one after you’ve got responses from the previous group first. That way, when you need to limit who’s being invited to meet your budget or venue capacity, the ones who miss out will be less offended and you’ll have the best guest list possible.
Here’s how to split up the groups:
A – The guests you need/have to invite
Your parents, your siblings, your closest friends, your own children.
B – The guests you really, really want to invite
Your grandparents, your nieces and nephews, your closest aunts and uncles, your wider circle of friends.
C – The guests you’ll invite if the venue size and budget allows
All the rest of your aunts and uncles, all your cousins, travel buddies, old friends you’ve kind of lost contact with, close work colleagues who aren’t actual friends.
D – The rest – a very flexible list depending on how obliged/connected you feel
Neighbours, friends of your parents (this may be unavoidable), children of guests, people who invited you to their wedding but aren’t that close, other work colleagues.
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