The 3 Guest List Bride
August 26th, 2008 @ 1:58 pm by Miss Avocado
Some brides have 2 dresses. Some brides have 2 veils. Some brides even find a way to work 2 or 3 pairs of shoes into the wedding event timeline.I have 3 guest lists.
Best movie ever. I pulled my tshirts off my shoulders and danced around just like Belle as a child.
Source.
Event 1: The Temple sealing at 12:00 pm. As I explained previously, this is a private ceremony. The room we reserved seats 35, and we can fit 45 with people standing. The preliminary list from my mother was 67 people. I have had to fight tooth and nail to narrow that list down to an acceptable number. It’s been a process filled with tears, and I am very happy that the list has now been finalized.
One More Please!
August 14th, 2008 @ 6:12 pm by Mr. Mango
Grrr. I just got off the phone with a friend who said that his wife’s nephew is showing up 3 days before our event. Needless to say, he asked whether he could bring him, and my doofus butt said, “Sure, we’d love to have him over!”.
I lied. I got off the phone and felt like crap as I added one more to our ever-growing list.
Making the Cut
August 4th, 2008 @ 3:39 pm by Miss Sweet Tea
So one of the things that’s been a small big headache is figuring out the guest list. If we were made of money, it would be no issue. Shoot, even the family pets would be invited (you know how I love those animals). Alas, there is this pesky thing called a budget that we’ve got to stick to, so there’s got to be a cap on the list.
Wedding planning in general makes me simultaneously feel super loved and very lonely. On the one hand, all these people come out of the woodwork to congratulate you, send their good wishes, etc. But when all that happens, it just reminds me how out of touch I’ve been with people, how I’m not close to a lot of old friends any more, how I would never think to call half of them just to say hello. And vice versa. It’s the ebb and flow of relationships, and it’s perfectly natural. But it doesn’t make putting together a guest list any easier.
Guest List JOY
April 10th, 2008 @ 5:04 pm by Mrs. Cream Puff
Yes, you read that right: Guest list JOY. At any other point in the wedding planning process, I would have told you that the guest list could bring nothing but total and utter pain. Last night, however, I decided to re-do our guest list. For awhile, I was using the knot’s guest list manager. I found the whole thing to be slow and not user-friendly. So I tried to switch to the one from Bed Bath and Beyond, which looked like it could be better. Unfortunately, their flash interface was incredibly slow and made me want to claw my own eyeballs out.
So yesterday I received my license key for a program called Perfect Table Plan. This super cool company some of the bees complimentary license keys so we could play around with the program (and of course, we weren’t obligated to write about it–more on the program later. I figured out that you can actually download a trial yourself, so check it out!). I imported all my guest info from the knot’s exported file, then deleted the guests we decided to cut out.
I. was. thrilled.
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Seriously?
April 9th, 2008 @ 2:08 pm by Mrs. Daffodil
I must say, if there is one thing that puzzles and amuses me, it is what possesses guests to add additional people without checking with the couple. Or even at least our parents. I mean this in the most objective way possible.
One of the most time consuming aspects of creating our invitations was customizing our RSVP cards. Due to our capacity constraints (the room physically cannot hold more than a certain number of people), we followed our parents’ suggestion in trying to be as specific as possible. I spent hours printing numerous RSVP cards for two people, for one person, for families of three, four, and five. So imagine my amusement to receive this in the mail the other day…
Splitting The List
April 8th, 2008 @ 10:33 am by Mrs. Penguin
Solidifying the guest list seems to be in everyone’s top five most nervewracking parts of planning a wedding. I’ll admit to shedding a few tears over our list. I remember when we booked our venue about a year ago and they noted that the maximum capacity was 120 people. 120! Psh! I can’t even think of 20 people I know right off the top of my head.
Boy, was I wrong, and then some. Mr. Penguin and I sat down to make our “Preliminary List” noting everyone that, in a perfect world, would be invited to the wedding. We came up in the high 300s. In the end, it came down to our immediate family, all our aunts and uncles, and a handful of our close friends. 120 sure adds up quickly.
One thing that I initially thought would save my sanity was to immediately divide up how many people Mr. Penguin would get to invite and how many I would. We split it right down the middle: 60/60. I thought my worries would be over on his side. If he failed to invite people he should have, it wasn’t my problem, and vice versa.
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The Flamingo Ties…
February 11th, 2008 @ 6:21 pm by Mrs. Flamingo
As I was reading my previous posts, I realized that I haven’t really given a background on my complicated Flamingo family. I attempted to explain a bit during my January broadcast, but let’s just say that didn’t work out very well.
I need to draw all of you a picture. (’cuz I need visuals… and believe me you will need them too)
To give you an idea: My sisters aren’t my sisters, My grandpa isn’t my grandpa and my stepmother is best friends with my mom. For a more detailed explanation look here.
Getting The Guest List Is Like Pulling Teeth
February 11th, 2008 @ 12:51 pm by Mrs. Toucan
While I don’t really rely on the Knot checklist, I do check it from time to time. After all, it’s fun to check off things! However, there is one thing that has been on the top of the list for MONTHS that I’ve been trying to check off, but haven’t been able to.
The guest list. Getting the guest list together has been more complicated than I imagined. Since our wedding is mostly family, I had a general idea of who was on the guest list, so the fact that I hadn’t received a list from my parents was fine - until now. I’m getting ready to send out invitations, so as you might imagine, I actually need to know who I am inviting!
Finally, I asked my dad about the list again, and out spilled another complication. First, I got the usual, “Why do you need to know right now?” Then, the rest of the exchange:
Just When You Thought It Was Safe…
May 12th, 2007 @ 1:48 pm by Mrs. Plum
Your previously passive, go-with-the-flow, laid-back FIL decides to go on an “invite-spree”. Of course it would happen. With less than 6 weeks to go until the wedding - AND the invites have already been mailed.
What’s an “invite-spree” you say?
Well, it’s when someone who isn’t the bride or groom (aka someone unauthorized) invites a bunch of people that the bride and groom don’t know to their own wedding - yep - when the bride and groom are picking up the tab.
He’s trying to invite people with titles like “his boss’s wife’s brother-in-law twice-removed.” Seriously??! Seriously?!?! SERIOUSLY?!?! 
My FI is very against this and already told him no - but he’s still pushing it.
How To “Nicely” Let Someone Down
May 9th, 2007 @ 12:28 pm by Mrs. Plum
Thanks for all the advice on my post yesterday ya’ll (gotta throw in some of my southern charm here 
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It’s just difficult knowing how to act / what to do because we were friends for so long and our friends are sort of friends with him - AND he’s been talking about “how fun” our wedding is going to be for over a year or so, assuming that he was invited already!!
He moved to another part of the state around 2 years ago, and we rarely hang out or even talk online anymore unless he needs something and/or is bored.
How do you break the news to someone that they’re not invited, when they already thought they were coming?? 
