Creating Your Wedding Guest List

This is one of the most challenging jobs of the whole issue. Planning to sit for creating the wedding guest list a year prior to the date of wedding is not too early. Before you declare that you have 200 guests to be invited or before you start sending invitations, it would be a wise gesture to sit down with all the members of your family and your fiancée to clarify certain pivotal points regarding the issue.

Firstly, determine whether you have a dream of a big wedding party or a small get-together. If you have planned of a huge bash, determine if your budget would permit you to move ahead with your plan.

Secondly, just sketch out a list of all the most important guests who can be avoided in no circumstances. Ask all the members of your family who they want to invite at your marriage and sort out the most important names there from. This is the primary list that includes the close friends and relatives.

Thirdly, open you budget sheet and accordingly plan how many more people you are able to include in the list. The budget should count every single aspect – especially the expenses on the refreshment, drinks, dinner and accommodation. There is no point stretching yourself beyond the range of your affordability. If you are running out of the wedding budget you can go ahead to cut off certain names that are absolutely not welcome. If you are not comfortable with the people who drink too much, you can straight away cancel them. You can also make a curtailment of your ex-boyfriends or ex-girlfriends if your fiancée is not on the friendly terms with such situations.

Fourthly, determine for how many guests you are arranging accommodations. According to the number of accommodations invite those guests who would wish to stay overnight on the night of the wedding. If the number of guests is more than the number of accommodations, then you have to make some curtailment once again, leaving only the most important of them.

Fifthly, it is important to have a detailed discussion with the person who is paying for the entire thing. If your parents were to incur the total expenses then it would be wise to sit with them in order to have a serious discussion regarding how many guests they have planned to invite. Some subtle negotiations hereby may deliver some grand elegance to the overall story.

Finally, after everything is completed, simple determine who are the guests of your part, who the guests of your fiancée’s and who are the common guests. This will bring forth a crystal clear guest list that you are ready to move ahead with.