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All of a sudden it seems like I have a never ending list of things to do. Our STDs have made a home on my kitchen table, which means I need to start making envelope liners, getting stamps, and um… finishing our guest list.
Yeah, our guest list isn’t quite finished yet. Okay, so we have an actual list of people, but their contact info is mysteriously missing.
Whose fault is this?
This time, it’s all me. The guest list seems so intimidating. Not actually making it, but getting all those addresses from people? Geeeez. That’s a LOT of info. I mean, I’ve created a spreadsheet to enter all the addresses into, and sort them very neatly. I’ve even taking Miss French Toast’s amazing Google Docs tips, and created my own “survey.” But I can’t bring myself to actually send it out and start generating actual information. Why am I so stuck here!? Sparks finished his side of the list MONTHS ago. This is a big time fail going on.
How did you organize your guest list and gather addresses? I’m in need of a little (or a lot of) help. 
I got most of them from my sister’s guest list because obviously the family will be the same, and we’ve got a lot of friend-overlap.
I only started freaking out when I realized how much more family my FI had compared to my BIL. I started freaking a little when the list hit 50 above what I envisioned.
Getting my guest list together was pretty easy with the help of the parents. They have always kept up with the address changes in our family members’ so I asked if they could make me a list of the family (and any friends they would like invited) along with the addresses. I had a list from my mother, which included her side and my father’s side, and I got a list from my fiance’s mother, which included her side and her husband’s side. I then made my own list for my fiance’s father’s side and used Facebook as a tool to ask for the addresses. Then made my own list of our friends and sent out text messages and Facebook messages for addresses. Just take it one small group at a time and you’ll be done before you know it!!!
Thank god for google docs….
I had updated my “address book” 2 years before and still most of them were all wrong (or their parents addresses).
1) Mass email
2) Mass Facebook
3) Text
wait a week and then go through them all to add them. If you are still missing call them, their parents, their other friends.
Or get really lucky and have a friend who recently just did this with overlap and steal them from her.
good luck!
Ah, I just went through my phone. If I’ve talked to you or texted you in the last few months etc, you made the list, if not, then nah. However, my FI was the one who dragged his foot. I kept telling him, shoot them a text. I went through my guest list in an hour. Wrote down the names on an excel spreadsheet sent to me by Ms. Giraffe and then texted everyone whose info I needed. Voila, it was done. Now, my in laws and my FI on the other hand 
I spit it into two categories. My friends and family. I asked my mom get all the family side addresses and I worked on my friends. I did both email and facebook and it worked extremely well. And then my mom had all the family side all nice and collected for me (which was nice as it’s been a while since I’ve talked to a lot of them personally).
I went even more in-depth with the GoogleDoc form. It asked:
Your name
Spouse/significant other name
Address 1
Address 2
City
State
Zip
Preferred Phone
Preferred E-mail
A check box for “I will be moving in the next year”
THAT way, it populates all of the information into separate columns on your the Google Spreadsheet that it pours into. MUCH easier to work with AND you have the correct spellings of everyones name. (Plus e-mail and phone to track down their RSVPs.)
Our list was split into 4ths - my mom’s guests, my dad/stepmom’s guests, FFIL’s guests, and Mr. CA and my guests. I forced the first 3 to send us the addresses for their guests, which made it MUCH more manageable for my and Mr CA’s guests. For those, we just emailed people individually (or you could do a mass email/ FB message, as others have suggested). My spreadsheet is my BFF.
@sdrury89: Hahaha, you have no idea how bad I wish I could do this! But Mom Sparkler is just as bad as me!
Thanks for the tips… I’m feeling a little bit of motivation coming on! 
I bought an old fashioned address book! that way, I will always have the addresses, and it reminds me of my moms when I was little
I agree with @Miss Hyena: Facebook was really helpful to get the stragglers!
Otherwise, I just texted people or had my mom call (for family members).
the easiest thing was my grandma has a christmas card list with everyone i could think of on it. i called her and she e mailed it to me so i scanned through it an kept the people i wanted and tossed the rest.
I found this UBER awesome guestlist excel planning sheet on a site a LONG time ago. I can’t find the link now but PM your email address and I will send it to you. 
I’ve got all of the addresses in WeddingWire, the site we are using for our wedding website. Keeping an excel spreadsheet was driving me nuts. I sent out e-mail requests and Mr. Gazelle called, got his via e-mail or were given in person. Unfortunately we just found out that we were given the wrong address for one couple! I guess they never got our STD, but at least we can fix this before we send the actual invite out.
I’m totally guilty of enlisting my Mom to get all our family addresses, emails, and phone numbers. *blush* Facebook definitely came in handy for our friends, and everything was plopped into an Excel spreadsheet and uploaded to Google Docs!
Excel - also works for adding columns like “Food choice,” “Gift,” “Thank you Sent?” to keep track of all of that. I used facebook/email for most address requests.
This is where I am at. I have my STDs complete, the return addressses done, the envelope liners in, but I am struggling with the guest list. I just don’t know who to actually where to send it to, because like you I am seriously lacking some addresses.
Facebook was a great help to me, i emailed all of my family and friends that i didn’t already have addresses for. And then i just copy and pasted the addresses into my spreadsheet! Only took 2 days!
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Mrs. Sparkler, Chicago Age and Occupation: 27, Communications Aficionado Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26, Publisher Engagement Date: July 21, 2010 Wedding Date: September 2011 Venue: Chicago Illuminating Company About Me: I’m a Southern lady living in the big city of Chicago. Well, lady may be a stretch, but I’m working hard to keep some Virginia charm in our sleek, urban, wedding-palooza! I’m addicted to marathons, not-so-famous bands, Chicago restaurants, and Mark Twain. I cry during SPCA commercials, and I think LOST was the best show to ever hit television. Mr. S and I met at a classy college mixer and, 7 years later, he’s still by my side. He’s the only child, laid back, free spirit... I’m the oldest of five kids, type-A, organizer. It doesn’t work on paper, but we’ve never paid attention to that stuff anyway. Somehow it works. And like they say, sometimes when you know…you just know.
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