Planning: Keeping your guest count down and dealing with your parents
By Kristal Johnson (WedNet Specialist Blogger for Wedding Planning): Event Source Northwest: http://www.eventsourcenw.com/kristal.html
I’m noticing lately that couples and their parents have totally different ideas and thoughts when it comes to planning a wedding and all the politics that go along with it. I know when I was planning my wedding my Mom wanted to invite the whole town! Here are a couple of tips to let your parents and/or fiancé know what you expect out of your wedding day and who you want there.
1. Communicate! Talk with your fiancé and your parents about how you want to keep it a smaller wedding and let them down gently when you say that your 3rd grade bus driver who you haven’t seen since then is not invited.
2. Explain how a wedding with too many guests, or people you barely know will totally throw off the intimate feeling you’re going for, not to mention inflate the cost!
3. Make a rule: If you haven’t seen or heard from a particular guest in years and they aren’t family don’t invite them. Chances are that they are not expecting and invitation anyway
4. Don’t feel obligated. Just because your dad’s friends sisters cousin invited you to her wedding doesn’t mean that you have to invite them. Make sure that the guests you choose to invite are there to support your marriage and not just looking for a free meal!