Guests..

We are doing second cousins in ours and do your families have regular outings with the super extended family?

View Quoted Comment His mother and brothers do go out with the extended family.

View Quoted Comment Occasionally

My fiancé has a huge family so I get it and it might be a great way to feel less nervous with them and having more support didn’t hurt anyone

Since this is FH's family, I would talk to him and see how he feels about inviting them or not!

View Quoted Comment You’re right! Thank you 😊

View Quoted Comment I agree! Thank you 😊

Definitely talk with your FH. As you settle a budget (if you haven't already) you may discover you can't afford to invite everyone, too. Just something to think about!

We are inviting almost all of his family and I’m just asking my extended family like parents, sisters and my mom’s 2 sisters and their husbands. And the rest will be friends. I really didn’t want a big wedding and I didn’t want my whole family there since I don’t really fit in with them especially my dads side of the family. Since I am adopted, they didn’t fully accept me as their family like they did with my older sister who was their biological neice. I didn’t want to have to be fake or them be fake with me.

We each wrote up a list of people we wanted to invite. That way we each get to invite people who are important to us. I haven't met 90% of my FH's friends or family( out of state) and I'm excited to finally meet all the people I've heard stories about.

We just got a list from my fiance's mom. It was easier that way for us. Lol

View Quoted Comment That’s certainly a good decision, I think too that I won’t invite many but the wedding’s still in a year, so we’ll see what happens 🙂💕

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View Quoted Comment That’s nice ☺️

View Quoted Comment Lol 😆 I imagine

I decided who to invite from my side of the family and my husband decided who to invite from his side. We invited my husband's "not close" side of the family. He had amazing memories with them when he was young but they kinda stopped coming around when they started having kids and starting families of their own. I only met them once out of the 7 years we were together before getting married. All of the "not close" family declined so it was kind of pointless to invited them.

I don't recommend getting the list of people to invite from parents. A lot of brides and grooms that do this get VERY overwhelmed because their parents try to add everyone they've ever met to the guest list, especially if they aren't paying. Then you'll have to awkwardly explain to them that you don't want to invite all of these people neither of you know

View Quoted Comment Thank you so much for helping me 😊💕