If you’re eager to get your guest list down to a reasonable and affordable number of people, there are a few techniques you can use to do this quickly and without evoking too much drama with your friends and your family. The first thing you should do is examine if there’s anyone you are inviting because you feel as though you have to and don’t have a strong desire to invite in the first place. To help you get started with this wedding guest list transformation, here are 8 people to cross off your wedding guest list and why they should not be invited to your big celebration.
1. Long Lost Family Members
If you haven’t spoken to some of your relatives in years, you don’t have to invite them to your wedding. Remember, your wedding is a celebration for you and the person you’re marrying. It’s not a family reunion where you have to extend an invitation to everyone in your family tree.
2. Ex-Best Friends
If you’re hoping to rectify some of your friendships with people that you have grown apart from or no longer speak to frequently, you may have a desire to invite them to your wedding to make this happen. But your wedding will be a day and night that you are incredibly busy and have many guests to say hello to and talk to. Your wedding is not the best place to fix friendships.
3. Friends from Work
Just because you share a cubicle with a person at work or you eat lunch with them every weekday, doesn’t mean they have to make your guest list, especially if you’re keeping your wedding small. You can plan a work happy hour instead to celebrate with your work friends.
4. Obligatory Friends
If you have anyone on your guest list that you are inviting just because they invited you to their wedding years ago, you should cross them off. Unless they are still good friends of yours, there is no obligation to invite them to your celebration.
5. Neighbors
They may live next to you but it doesn’t mean you’re super friendly with them. If you feel like it may get awkward not to invite them, just let them know, when and if they ask, that you wanted to keep your celebration small.
6. Friends With a Track Record
If you have a handful of friends that are unruly wedding guests or just always getting kicked out of bars and clubs, you may want to remove them from your guest list or you may have to hire extra security.
7. Kids of Family and Friends
One quick way to minimize your guest list is to make your wedding a kid-free one. That way you won’t have to pay for the youngins to attend your wedding.
8. Plus Ones You’ve Never Met
You don’t have to give any of your guests a plus one and you should consider not giving them one if you’ve never met their significant other before.
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