Wedding Guest List Question for Married PSers

[SarahLovesJS]

Is there anyone (especially family) that you questioned from your guest list that you regretted inviting or anyone you didn''t invite that you later regretted not inviting? Thought this might be an interesting thread.

 

[Italiahaircolor]

Ummmm....for me that was my Aunt and her daughter/son.

Ever since my Aunt J and Uncle R divorced, our family hasn''t been able to keep in close contact with them. However, we''ve (my Mom, sister and I) been good about attending their baby showers, graduation parties, Christenings, weddings, bridal showers, or whatever. If we couldn''t attend, we made sure to always always always send a gift with whomever from the family was attending. However, that portion of the fam was always really bad about "thanking" you. My cousin S (girl) had a baby before she got married, so within one year I sent a gift for her baby shower, a gift when the baby was born, his Christening, her bridal shower and wedding...and never, ever, never recieved so much as a post card. It t''d me off after awhile.

So, although we''ve clearly distant cousins, I still invited her to my Bridal Shower. She, nor my Aunt J, RSVP''d or showed up

. So, I did not invite them to my wedding... oh well.

However, three days before my wedding...my cousin S called my Mom and said "We lost Ashley''s wedding invite, and we want to go...it was right here on the fridge, but now its missing...when is her wedding?"...LOL, total liar, she never got an invite because she wasnt invited. However, I''m Queen O''Nonconfrontational...so I last minute gave them the info and called my planner to let her know (we laughed for 20 minutes over it).

However, I haven''t spoken/seen any of them since my wedding....

 

[neatfreak]

Hmmm...not really. But there are a few people whom I have become close with over the past year that I was not super close with at the time of the wedding. I do wish they had been there, but we had a super small wedding, so I don''t regret it per se, as we weren''t close at the time. But since we are considerably closer now I wish that they had shared the experience with us.

 

[little miss sunshine]

Interesting question...

We originially planned on having a wedding with 100 guests, but once we sat down to do the guest list we ended up with 130. We just didn''t want to leave anyone off that we would regret later on... however, in the end we had 105 guests so it worked out perfectly! If you are on the fence, I would say invite them... I think the average is about 20% of guests that will decline.