Easiest way to gather guest addresses

I found Facebook to be immensely helpful in that regard. Also, check with your relatives - my grandma was able to produce a list of addresses of extended family members that I didn't have a snowflake's chance in hell of obtaining on my own. Also, I spoke with two of my aunts (one on each side) to see if they could help me compile the list. Between the four of us we were able to get everything together.

Also, do you have any relatives who have been married in the last few years? See if they might send you their list.

Email, call, text, Facebook and then create a master list.

Text, call, private FB message...doesn't matter as long as you don't ask on social media where everyone can see.

Woo girl... this was a struggle for me!

I started about 3 months before I sent out STD's and still was making calls last minute to gather missing addresses.

divide up your guest list between his family, your family, your friends, his friends, parents friends, etc. and assign a person to gather addresses for each group.

I ended up getting about 50%, my mom gathered some, FMIL gathered some and FH gathered some. Then whatever stragglers were left I took care of.

Have the parents of bride and groom produce a list for you of people they know. Then call, text, fb, email the others

Does anyone send holiday or birthday cards in your families? Start with them and ask if they have a list you can start from!

Thank you! The last person to get married was my cousin on my mom's side, and her side consists of about ten people. I should be able to get information from my sister-in-law and mom. The hardest part will be FH's side. His parents have been less than supportive of our engagement, and I'm not sure how willing they will be to help us with addresses. It might be a lot of phone calls and texts from him.

We split our list into fourths. My friends, my husband's friends, my family, his family. I FB messaged my friends, my husband called his friends, and our parents already had addresses for the family members.

For relatives, I asked Grandma, FMIL, and other relatives. For friends, I sent Facebook messages or texts. Definitely recruit people to help you with this!

Best advice: have an older sibling get married a year before you. Lol that's what I did... but if it's not an option your parents/grandparents probably have a lot of the info in an old fashioned address book!

Just bloody ask.

I bought an address book to stay organized. I texted everyone, and for the family friends of mine and FHs parents, I asked them to call and gather the addresses for us.

If a family member has recently gotten married or had a baby shower, ask if they have a master list from that.

Anyone else, just ask them.

We went to our parents and grandparents and just reached out by email to those who recently moved and/or are in a new relationship to get a correct spelling of their SO names.

FB is NOT a source! I can't tell you how many invites a received last year, they were addressed to my FB name, so in the trash they went.

FMIL got all of FH's side of the families addresses, my mother got all of my side of the family and FH husband and I texted our friends. I put all of mine on an excel spreadsheet once I gathered them all.

I checked with my parents and FHS parents for addresses first. They had all the family addresses. Then we texted friends for theirs.

We just asked my mom, FMIL and my grandmother since they already had most people's addresses (for Christmas cards and such). Anyone that was missing, we had to ask.

I called, txt and Facebooked people for their address. Very easy to get then I added everything on the WW's guest list tool. Easy to keep track of especially once they started to rsvp.

My mom gave me her document of addresses for Christmas cards, FH's mom asked her sister for everyone's contact info in Canada, FH's dad asked his sister for contact info for his side. I fb messaged or texted all of our friends "what's your mailing address?" And asked FH to do the same for anyone else on his side.

I have an excel-Google doc and have it shared with my FH, FMIL, and sister (MOH).

I am ordering my invitations through minted because it is so worth the money to have the addresses printed. They have an option for you to email a link to your guests, which once filled out goes directly into your address book. It also has a facebook message option but I have not tried that.