Inviting coworkers

I agree that the all or nothing rule applies here. Would you invite them all if you had a dinner party at your home? Would you think it was odd if one of them invited you to their wedding? If you answered yes to both of those, go for it. If not, I think it’s okay to skip the invite.

Would you feel comfortable inviting them to a party outside work? That's essentially what a wedding is. Even if you're not comfortable inviting all of them, it's totally fine to not extend an invitation. Most coworkers understand that's how it works sometimes!

So the other piece I should mention is that we have a broad range of age groups in our office - I’m in my early 30s and some of my coworkers are in their 50s-60s, so naturally I feel like I have less of a friendship type relationship with some of them. It would be normal for some of us to hang out without inviting everyone.

View Quoted Comment I would feel comfortable inviting them to a party outside of work. However, we’ve been trying to be cost conscious throughout this process and are not inviting everyone in our lives, just those that were very close with or that we consider life long friends. I would say I’m much closer with 2 of my coworkers than the others.