Tips On Planning the Wedding Guest Lists
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Tips on Planning the Wedding Guest Lists
By Susan M. Keenan ©2009
Planning a wedding guest list should be accomplished during the early stages of any wedding planning. Allotting the number of guests is critical in preventing arguments. Tips are offered in this article.
Planning the wedding guest list is a chore that is more easily accomplished when a few tips are applied to the process. Many factors go into the planning of this list including the size of the budget, the size of the banquet hall, the number of parents involved, and the wishes of the bride and groom. Quite often, this facet of any wedding is one of the most difficult ones to get through.
Planning the Wedding Guest Lists: Create a Plan
Nonetheless, using a few solid tips to help in the planning of the wedding guest lists can help to diminish the number of problems that occur along with the number of arguments that arise. The best strategy is to create a plan and to stick with it. If each step is followed in order, then the only work that is involved is the work to select, fill out, mail, and sort the replies for the wedding invitations.
Planning the Wedding Guest Lists: Determine the Number of Wedding Guests
If the bride and groom are paying for the wedding, then they should determine how many guests are going to be invited. Additionally, they should be the ones to determine how many guests each person gets to include on their guest list. However, even when the bride and groom are paying for the wedding, they often do not have control of the reins when it comes to deciding how many people to invite.
In fact, this simple facet of the wedding guest list is not quite so simple when multiple sets of parents are involved. What if the bride’s parents are divorced and remarried? Or the groom’s parents? How many guests does each set of parents get to have?
Perhaps the primary consideration should be the venue that has been selected for the wedding banquet. After all, the location typically dictates a limited number of guests. If the bride and groom can afford the price that comes along with the top number for capacity, then they can use that number for their starting point. If not, then they should use their allotted budget for wedding guests to dictate the number of guests that they can invite.
Planning the Wedding Guest Lists: Divvying up the Number of Wedding Guests
Once the bride and groom create a plan for how many guests each involved party gets to select, they need to stick to it. If they waver in their decision even once, then they will be wavering until it is all said and done. Perhaps the easiest strategy is to allow each party a certain number of guests and then rotate who gets to invite a new guest once the responses for not attending start to filter in.
