Are you inviting people you've never met?

There will be some people I don't know on his side and vice versa for him; however, all of our guests will be someone at least one of us knows.

There are some people on my FH side that I have never met, but very few

Nope! I wanted just family- parents, siblings, grandparents, aunts, uncles first cousins. We also invited about 25 college friends. No parent's friends and no friend's parents. We wanted to keep our wedding small and still ended up inviting about 80 people.

If FMIL has it her way we would be. There have been some pretty intense arguments about not inviting HER aunts and uncles and cousins and friends that FH doesn't even know or hasn't seen in 10 years+ years. Came to a head last night and I'm so done. She's not paying for the wedding. She needs to stop.

Yes, there was definitely a small handful of people we didn't know at our wedding prior to our wedding, most were spouses of my parents' friends, or my in-laws' friends. But my parents paid for the wedding, so they were really free to invite whoever they wanted, and it didn't affect the number of our friends we got to invite, so we said the more the merrier.

Yes, there will be spouses of my coworker/friends and also some of his family I do not know.

I haven't met half of FH's family and have only met the rest once (not counting his immediate family, who I know well). All are invited. In my family, you invite everyone, that's just how it goes, and we couldn't invite all of my family and not his. We don't expect many to come. There will also be some of my relatives there who he's never met and there will be some friends of his who I haven't. Such is life when people are all over the country.

There won't be anyone there that neither of us knows except for a small handful of plus ones.

No, we literally know everyone on both sides. Well we've at least met them, idk about actually knowing them lol

There are actually quite a few people on FH’s side of the family that I’ve never met because they live far away. We invited my cousins, so we invited his cousins even though I’ve not met them. Most of them are coming, so I guess they won’t be strangers much longer.

We are only having people we know as we have met most of all the couple's significant others at least once before. Those we haven't don't plan to bring their significant others for one reason or another...

There are some people on his side I don’t know and some on my side he doesn’t know but other than that, no coworkers of parents or anything.

So far only one. A mutual friend of ours wife, I’ve never met her but my FH has.

If my my mother has her way a whole six person family of her friends that she’s only known for six months and FH and I have never met. 🙄

Nope! This was one of our requirements when building our guest list, we both have to have at least met the person for them to make the cut. We are having a very small intimate wedding and don't want to look back 20 years from now and go who is that guy.

Yes. There are some family members on his side I’ve never met and some on my side that he’s never met but that’s it.

No, but we prioritized keeping it very small, therefore only people we have a close relationship will be with us on our big day!

Pretty much his whole side of the family! They all live up north and aren't very close, unlike my side of the family.

Teeeeeeechnically I don't know most people coming. FH has a HUGE family and I don't know most of them. (I've been told I have met 25% of his mom's size, and 2 people from his dad's side.............)
In any case, it would make FH happy to have them there, so they're invited. 😊

There will be relatives on both sides that one of us hasn't met, but at least one of us will know each person there.

I know everyone. I have 1 aunt & 3 cousins that I haven't seen in years. FH will be meeting them for the 1st time.

Yes unfortunately, which I'm totally against. Why should I pay 100 bucks for someone I've never met to attend one of the biggest days of my life? Trying to keep telling myself "it's his day too" and oddly enough I haven't met his entire family yet. It's been 4.5 years. Which also makes me a bit angry because he hasn't spoken to them our entire relationship...so again, why do they need to be invited?! Ugh! Gotta do it I guess.