Wedding Forum - Who to Invite...

I'd say it depends on your budget. You have to look at how many "spaces" you have and then fill them after what you want your day to be like...
I've made a guestlist like this.
First I made a list of everyone I feel I WANT there, these are the people I would miss if they were not there.
Then I made a second list of people I would very much like to have there if we have the room.
At last comes the ones I feel a little obligated to have there, a sort of "maybe list"

Make sense?

I think Annette is right. I have now whittled it down to really important people at the ceremony (that matters as we're in a registry office, not a church, and we have the choice of up to 12, 30 or 60 people depending on the room), then everyone we can afford in the order Annette said, firstly to the reception and then anyone else up to what we can afford to the evening do.
Saying that, I'm about to scrap it all and just have our parents and children there!!

i worked a list startin with immedate family (mums,dads,our kids,sister's, brother's) none immedate ( partner's of siblings and best mans partner) {as we don't have small neices nephews they will be invited to evenin execpt 1 coz he's diebetic, friend for each parent and sis, gandma (as a havnt seen her since 98 ) then close friends we've known more than 5yrs the rest for the nyt time :)

Thats the same as my nicole, I'm from Suffolk so loads of people are travelling up for the wedding which means local people we are really close with are having to be cut to evening only, which I hate having to do but the people who are travelling have to come first, its a nightmare!

We started off planning for 60 adults but couldnt quite manage that. WE started with immediate family, then closest friends that has ended up totaling us to 84 adults and 15 children so had to up the numbers. So the only people we are having there we really want there. WE do have a list of others that we can add in if there a lot of people that cant make it. They will prob get invited as evening guests otherwise although we havent decided on that yet because will mean more money. With regards to family i only have my brothers and sisters, mum, dad. H2B has most of his, he only has 2 aunts and a few cousins. If i was to envite my whole family i would have to double the guest list on family alone so we decided it just isnt possible to have them all there and they live to far just to come for the evening.

Family first for me then my closest friends.
I dont know what my h2b is doing for his half he seems to invite everyone to the full day.
We have a list of the ones we want there but not the full day.
We might have someone there that neither of us like just because he is my MOH other half.
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