Inviting College Friends???

I think it depends on the nature of those friendships. My college friends are still some of my closest friends, so I’m inviting them. But if you don’t feel like those are people you’ll be friends with for the rest of your life, maybe not. I would use the same criteria that you are using to decide whether to invite all guests (i.e. will I still be in touch with this person in 10 years?) to decide whether to invite these friends as well.

Only inviting people to the part of your wedding that’s essentially free is incredibly rude. We invited the friends that we’re close to, where we met them wasn’t a factor. Some of those were college friends, some were high school friends, some were work friends, etc.

I invited some of the girls I work with because I see them everyday and we are close now. I know we won't be close forever. It added about 6 to my list though, I picked just the ones I'm closest to and they are making it a girls trip instead of bringing plus ones.

If you're close and have a relationship with them outside school, that would be fine to invite them!

Depends on your friendship.. would you be sad/bummed if any of them weren't there? If so, I'd say invite those ones.

Do not invite anyone for only a portion of the wedding! If you don't see yourself remaining close with some of them, don't invite some of them. When you met people shouldn't really be a factor. I have friends from all chapters of life invited!

I definitely agree with others not to invite people to only part of your wedding. There's no good way to go about that that won't be confusing and/or awkward for the invitees.

Just like with coworkers, I think it makes sense to only invite people you have a real friendship with outside of the place you met. Once you finish school, you will likely not stay in touch with most of your classmates (same with changing jobs).

Well, thanks for sharing this update because now I can do my work according to these rules and regulations.

I was invited to a few of my college friends’ weddings, but we were pretty close and they were also smaller weddings, not many guests and, well I didn’t go to one but of the 4 I did attend, 3 were more appetizer/finger food buffet, likely provided by families. One was plated dinners.

But in a similar note, I just started teaching at my current school this past year and am contemplating who to invite from work. I feel like I should invite my grade level team and my coach (who’s also my 3rd cousin), but debating on the others who I’ve been getting to know. Also feel it’s worth mentioning that I’m loving working at this school and intend to be here for a long long time.