... our honeymoon and new furniture lol.
Now i'm just researching more intimate venues around us and I think I have found one that would be perfect! It's the Prairie Avenue Gallery (formerly The...
...this photo to the left?), except with our petal runner in the center and colors of fushia, ivory and other tropical colors.
We have sent out our STD's for 2014 wedding right on our anniversa...
...mony/reception venues too.
Ceremony= The local temple, whose rabbi FI/his family has known for quite awhile.
Reception: a lovely restaurant in town, with a beautiful attached private greenhou...
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6) Flowers- I will be purchasing our flowers from a florist here and putting them together with my aunts.
7) Centerpieces- I will be doing small photo boxes w/ vases in them for our flowers....
...ut a invitation to a person who probably won't show up. I have a major fear of everyone RSVPing YES. Also they are against us sending the invites out in 2 batches. The 1st out in early May the s...
...m to invite to your wedding. Check it out! It sounds harsh to cut from your guest list sometimes, this could help! You do have to make sure you aren't stepping on toes or burning bridges.
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...nd 1 videographer we must feed). I could just scream!!! she said they could eliminate people (which she will have to) , but i had to call my parents and tell them they must also eliminate people...
...t of wedding planning for you ladies so far?
For me I'd have to say finding my dress was a nightmare- Glad I finally found the one and i'm in love with it!
But my CONSTANT stress is my gue...
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... our reception in the room we reserved with that big of a guest list and put a larger room on hold for me. NOT A PROBLEM RIGHT...WRONG
FH is dead against going into the larger room because he...
Okay ladies.We are having some slight problems with the guest list. When we wrote out our guest list we came to a total of 450 people. OMG. We are trying to decide how we are going to do the ...
... are reception is close to the max.
If I could do my invites all over again, I would have made it clear that you are able to bring one other person because people have gotten out of hand by w...
Perfect, need I say more?
Ladies!
When do you send save the dates?
This is something I always wanted to do and now is the time.
We are almost to the 9 month countdown and I think now is the time to get my guest...
...s to invite all of our out-of-town extended family to the rehearsal dinner. I know that some people do this but in our case everyone is from out of town so basically half the wedding guests are ...
... and reception. Our venue is expensive and with 275 guests planned, our catering is out rageous! How are you dealing with this scenerio?
What would you do?
1. A beautiful venue and a small ...
... The invitation is addressed just to you for a reason.. I understand that some people don't want to come to weddings alone, but I have quite a few people who will be coming individually because ...
...t of wedding planning that I have been dreading, it would be putting together the table plan. However I got over my dread and began to tackle it last weekend, and we got a long way with it.
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...both invite? Or are you like me and don't really care either way?...
I have a budget of $7,000 and a huest list of 75 people? any ideas or is this even possible?
... the invite and no +1 or +guest, who happens to live with 2 other not-as-good-of friends from college. We didn't invite those 2. However, we get the RSVP back, and he wrote his name and the name...
...n my budget. So as time goes on I will be cutting people fromt the list.
To top that FH hasn't even started his list...........Help me please!!
I just see this getting out of control. I'...
...n my wedding planning because I have NO IDEA how many guests might be coming! I am guessing that it is between 115 and 130 but it could be more like 100 or 140.
I met with my florists a few ...
... our MOH and BM.
And an additional 4 in the bridal party. 2 jr bridesmaids, flower girl and ring bearer.
Soooo....how big is your wedding?
How many guests?
How many attendants? How big is...
...an't invite one without the other....
...d to invite people out of "respect" for so and so...or because they went to so and so's wedding, so we need to invite them to ours. that's just not his bag. his philosophy has changed my way of ...
...d my bouquet, but I'm looking into other ideas too).
Now we are back into the swing of things, trying to get things done. Before I can begin purchasing my decorations and such, I need to mak...
...m an invitation. The truth is I do not interact with my co workers after work and not much during work other than a courteous hello. We are only allowing 100 guest and I have a very large family...
...p My maid of Honor- Christina Gardner; She's been my friend since 5th grade and we remain best friends to this day! This choice required no effort on my part I knew that she was the woman for th...
After talking to my FH, we have decided to have a wedding of 100 or less people. We really don't want to go above that number. 75 is what we are aiming for but if it gets up to or close to 10...
... our engagement pictures done next month, late by choice. I wanted the fall season with the colors & leaves on the ground in my shots.
- Met with Kristen (the venue coordinator) & got ...
...ols, budget, checklist, seating charts and everything.
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...d to invite her children - makes sense, we just hadn't thought about it.
My mom wants us to invite all my great-aunt and uncles along with some of my grandparents friends and her friends. I w...
... the reception. They were going to finalize thier seating arrangements, based on who showed up first. Table No._____ were added to the back of the cards (pic#2) to be filled in at the reception....
Sooo, if you have a friend that you haven't seen in like a year but its only because you've both been so busy would you still invite her to your wedding?
These are for the pink brides. Originally these were created for a bride that already married last month. She wanted to add that pink foo-foo of glam on her tables to match her pink ...
...ss', invitations and thank you cards and people that have already sent gifts?
I know I need to create some type of list but I need to know which direction to head! Im sure you guys can help m...
...vely cakes, so I think we may get our cake through her.
I've tried on dresses but can't seem to make up my mind. I don't want anything super expensive, in fact I'd be happy with somethign ar...
...l or cake or flowers or etc
just the banquest and the catering(food)..... I really have no idea how we are going to stick with the 40k
I'm going to try to do as much DIY as I can to cut th...
...s to invite. Sometimes she'll throw numbers out, but the numbers don't mean anything to me if they may or may not include people I have already counted.
I don't really care who she invites an...
... the budget calculator and keeping track of the guest list--which will be very useful in the future for invites and RSVPs.
If anyone is looking for wedding-related software, definitely check ...
...g to invite. Now Chris simply has 63 guests he would like to invite, which includes family, friends & co-workers. 63 !? That's nothing! But thank God that IS it or else we'd really be in tro...
...t to invite everyone we have in our lives its really not possible and it really sucks.Do people understand that we want to but we can't or do they just say that so we don't feel bad. Im already ...
...m an invite as well? It makes me feel like we are looking for a gift or money from them, since we know darn well they will be unable to attend.
As well, my FH is inviting a couple of guys he w...
... our honeymoon.
I only know 5 people of the 12 guests that they are inviting... Heres hoping that they will say no?? maybe?
Have any extra guests been sprung on to you that you wouldnt of...
... The invitations were mailed last week and I am nervous for the responses. My invitation were super beautiful. Black damask. Bought them at Michaels for crazy cheap and put them together myself....
... the invitation clearly indicated they were the ONLY invitee.
Am I the only one who knows that etiquee dictates you address the invitation to the invited and include any extra guests on the a...
... Don't know if you other brides have this problem or not, but we have been typing up all of our guests' addresses and we keep ADDING people to our list!! LOL. This is not good...I think we may...
Most of you know that me and FH have been engaged for over a year and have pushed our date back from 2010 to 2011. Now our moms have known from day one we were engaged. I asked for their gues...
.... My wedding planners said no biggie, about 20 percent of your guests don't show. But I'm nervous. If they all do.. we're up like 4000 over our budget that we'd have to come up with out of no wh...
why is it that when two grown people are supposed to be adults can't act like adults??!
there seems to be a problem with what looks to be the guest list
my uncle doesn't like my aunt (w...
So, I went to update my guest list.. it says on my computer. GUEST LIST file CORRUPTED showing up in squares on the excel page.
Boo Hoo you!
Luckily I have a print out of what I had ent...
...ld I invite my area manager really when it all comes down to it Alf is my boss and I have been told that it is good to invite your boss. But at the same time I don't want to seem like a kiss ass...
...rint Invites- I am soo picky about my invites but my little sister is designing them and I found a website that can print for cheap
6) Flowers- I have an appointment on Friday to see the flor...
...ve a budget spreadsheet that I haven't used yet. Trying to figure out if it will work for me.
http://www.thecleverbride.net/tools
If anyone know of any good excel sheets that I can use for...
...e to invite whomever she wanted. She in fact is NOT helping pay, we are paying for this on a limited budget and my Fiance has to help bail her out when she maxes out her credit cards so she will...
...f my bridesmaids is planning my bachelorette from Chicago (I'm in Arizona. She is planning a weekend in Vegas and what started out as (and stayed pretty much at until she asked for money) about ...
... Just a thought ladies.....Can I cut my guest list AFTER already sending someone a save-the-date??? Is that considered rude?? Maybe?? Would you be offended if you received a Save the date, but...
... Well.. I just got all the lists typed complete with names and address that I received from each or our parents. Since both of our parents are divorced and either remarried or has a boyfriend...
...heir invitation.
I was under the impression that friends & family with significant others would obviously get a plus one, and those that don't... wouldn't necessarily get to bring a guest...
... Soooo like here I am watching platinum weddings last night when I get a text with someone RSVPing that they will be attending my wedding so to add 2 more to the list. Uhmmmmmmmmmmm... First o...
I can not begin to express the level of frustration that I'm experiencing this moment... We are having our wedding in Vegas, most of my family is from St. Louis and everyone knew it was a des...
... his invitations to aunts and uncles only (no cousins). My family is very small, so i invited some family friends who helped raise me to keep our numbers semi even (I think his invitations are s...
...sent invites and I know that probably about 90 of them will come since most of them will have to travel a ways.
I'm excited! I wanted a smaller wedding and I think less than 100 will be just ...
...t to invite waaaay more than what we can afford. I have a pretty small family so I'm not worried about my side of it, but we also have some friends we want to invite. His cousin is getting marri...
...ve a cake tasting today and if we don't love the cupcakes there we have one more appointment set up for Tuesday. I am really hoping we love the cake flavors and frosting at the place we are vis...
... not invite many cousins, which has helped, but still have so much family! I'm pretty happy with the list I have including the 160 guests, with the idea that I'll add others if I get "No' respon...
... Here's another detail from the wedding I wanted to share. These french chic doors were offered by our venue. They were so cute and fit perfectly with the theme of the wedding. It made figurin...
...your invitations? I have a couple guest that are not married and have children from previous marriages. Did anyone else have guest like this? I am wondering if I should do something like this..
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...s my maid of honor and my uncle perfoming the ceremony. We have a wedding party of 7. So, I've decided to downsize my side of the guest list to only people who have been here for me and truly lo...
... So far our guest list is around 240. Not too big, but still getting up there for my likings. I was just wondering what is a good way to estimate how many people will show up? I know it will b...
How many of you are having a small wedding??
How small is your wedding??
I have a huge family but I'm only inviting the ones I'm close to including my friends; and so does my FH. Creati...
... our wedding reception. Our tentative guestlist has about 180 people. Our venue can hold up to 200 guests. We both visited the site and agreed that this was the place. Now he is saying that the ...
.... My engagement ring and wedding ring together looks almost identical to the photo I found online at your left. His wedding ring is tungsten, brushed in the middle and shiny on the borders. Toge...
Ladies - - I NEED HELP...
Did ya'll have some kind of process of making your guest list, or did ya'll just start writing down and when you remember someone add their name to the list???
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...g to invite...WTF
Some of the people who are on the list I am quite sure that they will not attend however, I dont want to chance it and then look like boo boo the fool when the RSVP comes ba...
...in a budget the we could afford & the guest list was going to be small. Well she got upset and said that there are certain people for sure that we have to invite. So once I just said ok the ...
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to eliminate people from our guest list? Our list right now is about 275 we need to get it down to about 175. Most of our list consists of family, but ...
...les, invites etc. But we really have whittled it down as much as is possible. And there is no banking on guests turning down invites, eek! what to do?
I'm a people pleaser. problem. i don't ...
...ould invite and my future in laws the same.
That way it was 120 and we could invite the rest.
Well my parents list didn't even come close to 60 and my future in laws gave me a list of almost...
...ve a wedding reception for my dinner rehearsal. FH and I both have 7 members of our bridal party, we both have aunts and uncles who will be walking down the aisle. Right now we're at 50. Is that...
...s to wedding planning (except her rule about engraved invitations- sorry, Miss M, in that one specific case, I think you're behind the times). I very much like what she has said about the first...
...
Our wedding reception was planned about right. We added up 70 guests in the begining, but were expecting 85 guests from the R.S.V.P. nightmare, but only 65 showed. (60 Adults and 25 Children) T...
... I'd like to send my StDs by the end of October, about 9 months before the wedding. Of course to do that, I need guest names and addresses. So I asked my mother to start out by getting me a li...
...r my invitations by the end of August- I hope that's not too early! I'm not sending them out till the first week of October (I think), but I want to have them ready to go- September is a very bu...
...ould invite.
Well with this number we are at 165. Not including his parents list or my parents list. Now with this list we did account for a guest for the single people.
Is it safe to assu...
... the reception. They'd only have to be in the same place for 20 mins, and could sit on opposite sides of the lawn. Not good enough.
SB has been trying to get me to invite new woman, without A...
... So we sent out our invitationsearly june and put to rsvp before JULY 31 (WHICH IS TODAY)
and not even half have RSVPed??? what am i suppose to do!?
we estimated 260 guests and only 80 hav...
...rson budget!) and this is only with guests 18 and up. We both come from large families and since my mother is remarried I am dealing with a third family on my side. So we made the decision to go...
...t to invite. With his list already ready we are at about 21 people. We want to have a list of max 150, but with my list I'm already at 50 and really haven't gotten everyone. I am scared that we ...
...dn't invite. People will say their invitation is lost in the mail, ask you to mail them ANOTHER one, and then RSVP NO ANYWAY!!!!!!! Your grandma will STILL be mad, even though you tried to do th...
... The reception hall could hold 300. I'd say our max expected guests would be 175 if we got to invite everyone. Do we just take the leap and invite 180 or so (knowing about 150-175 will say yes) ...
... the reception or at the tables, gives people something to look at and talk about?...
... Not that I even plan on getting married again but if we decided in 25 yrs to renew our vows were going to elope! Yesterday my mom and I went over the guest list a million times, finalised and...
...e to invite them to the dinner as well. How do I do this without offending them?...
...t to invite the man responsible for conceiving me. He and my mother were young when they had me-16. I know the man. He knows me. I've had visted him on occasion when I was an early adolescent, b...
...some diy projects, finalize the guest list (rsvp's are due back by June 30th), speak to priest who is performing the cereomony, decide on readings for the ceremony..and pack up our stuff to move...
...o be bridesmaids, but I think I can find some way for them to be involved and important. My oldest brother will have a big job - ushering and helping people park at my grandparents' place - it's...
... Has anyone else's guest list grew???
We originally planned on having 80-100 people attend. I dont want it to sound bad b/c if anything I'm happy, but man are there sooo many people coming ...
... Well it starts at 24 months and now just 16 to go :) I'm so excited that one year away is fast approaching! Still a ways to go, but 16 months isn't so bad, and when it's one year, I'll really...
..., go dress shopping with my mom and pick out the guys outfits and get the marriage license. Oh and meet with the DJ!!! Almost forgot about that one. Eek
I wanted to post my latest DIY’s. I f...
