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Well, we received our free save the date postcards from vistaprint.com and plan on mailing them out in November, about a year before the wedding. My FI was super excited about how they turned out, so while I had his attention I forced him to sit with me and go through the guest list to narrow it down to the people we were actually going to invite.
This was going to be tough. We originally budgeted for 150 guests but our venue had a 180 minimum so we stretched our budget to meet that. So we really want to keep it at exactly 180. Not to mention that our vendors have to be in our headcount in order to receive vendor meals.
180 may seem like a lot but we still had to leave out some people we care about. My fiancé's father is the pastor of a fairly large church so there are a lot of church member he grew up with that he wants to invite not to mention friends, coworkers and family members. And then there is my huge family. I have 21 aunts and uncles, most of whom are married and have a few kids so as you could imagine, my family takes up my entire half of the guest list.
So we had to make cuts and limit the list to only the closest friends and family members. We also have an age cutoff at 21 years old and are not extending +1's (unless they are married or engaged or will not know anyone at the wedding). Even with all this, there are still a few people that we want but wont fit so we are going to send invites out early and send a second round once we get some no RSVP's.
How did you trim down your guest list? Did you regret it?
I cut mine down as one friend and I hadn't seen each other for a year and we've become more like acquaintances. I didn't regret it at all.
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