The Guest List

So we are about 4 months out from our big day and it is time to get the save the dates - in the mail! You know what that means - we have to finalize our guest list. Now this may sound easy but when you are on a budget it is not as easy as you would think! My fiancé and I were up until 1 am trying to finalize our guest list. The problem with my fiancé and I is we both come from large families and we both have a lot of friends!

Are goal is to stay under 200 people if we can help it. To make it easier on ourselves we are taking it one step at a time. The first step is we both came up with a solid list of people we wanted to invite. The next step is to type up the list and organize the guests into categories. The four categories we are putting our guests in are Brides Friends/Brides Family and Grooms Friends/Grooms Family. By dividing the guest list into categories we have a clear idea of how many people we are each inviting.

My fiancé and I want the guest list to be as even as possible as far as both getting to have our closest friends and family at the wedding. The next step is the hardest part - cutting the people that just don’t make the list. When you are looking at a certain cost per head sometimes you have to be pretty picky who makes the cut. I will let you ladies know how all of this goes - once we get that far!