Overseas invites

I’m in the same boat. I’d say have casual conversations with them asking if they’re thinking of coming as you’ve started making arrangements and you want to plan accordingly. From there you can have a sense of who’s even thinking of coming. Be wary for the ones that will treat this as their vacation and end up bringing their whole family when you maybe intended to invite just the couple

View Quoted Comment Thanks! You make some great points! I really think I'll check in with them, but make it clear that no extended invites to other family. We're limited to 75 only!

We sent ours pictures of the save the dates! It was FH’s aunt and uncle and then the foreign exchange student my family hosted a few years back. Both were okay with the digital STDs since it had the wedding website on there with more information!

Hi Helena! I would avoid making a second-tier invitation list. You should really think about your invite list and invite the most important people to you. Your aim is to have those close to you attend, not to meet the maximum capacity of your venue.

You don’t want it to get out that some of your guests were only invited after others declined.

My FH has a lot of family in Puerto Rico. we knew only 1 of this aunts would be attending, but we sent the invitations to everyone. even knowing they wouldn't come, it's a nice gesture for them to know they were thought of.

Overseas invites take longer to arrive so I wouldn’t send them once the declines start coming in. Some RSVP won’t come in until the last minute and you won’t have time to send them out. Most of my overseas invite took about a month to arrive expect the one in a military base which was a little faster about 15-20 days instead.

View Quoted Comment You make great points! I do know that there will be some family who won't be able to come as I wasn't for theirs. Since our wedding guest "worlds" don't cross over in so many ways if we have declines we will invite those who we couldn't on the 1st round since we are already limited. It's tough because we want to invite more but have to keep costs to 75 only.

View Quoted Comment I agree, the more I think on it...we will send invites overseas knowing it will be appreciated but that they won't be able to come.

Thanks all! Have some more thinking to do but will probably go with the family invites as it will be appreciated. We know they will be mostly be declines and are prepared for it....I think lol!