Now that the STDs have gone out, I feel I can breach the topic of the guest list. Through out the rest of the wedding planning, I hope nothing is as depressing as putting together the guest list.
Why was the guest list so depressing, I hear you asking. Well, we simply weren't able to invite a good number of folks who we thought we'd be able to. Douglas' side has a lot of family and I've had the pleasure of spending a lot of time with a good number of aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents. My family, on the other hand, hasn't been close over the past few years but seems to be trying to repair rifts and getting back to being family again. So the numbers for my side also ended up being large. Douglas and I both knew that there was going to be family that weren't going to make the cut. There are simply too many of them. Of course, once we were done with the family we technically had no room for our friends who weren't in the wedding party.
Douglas and I really had our eyes on a wedding of about 80-100 people. Our guest list quickly rose above 125. Once we added the few friends we could, we ended up with a list of about 145! We had to face the fact that friends we'd like to invite, we wouldn't be able to. The parents, also, had a few folks on their lists that we weren't able to invite.
I know it's funny to say "invite" when we haven't actually sent out formal invitations, yet, but you get the point.
As we continue with our wedding planning, more compromises will have to be made as there is no budge in the budget.
Since the holidays are coming up, I will do my best to put together one more post this week and give you a double dose this week to make up for the possible lack of a real post next week.
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