Be Our Guest…
While weddings (in particular Luke and mine) are times to celebrate and be happy, not everything in the lead up to them is easy.
One of the things on my mind is people to invite. Because my fiancé and I are having our ceremony and reception in the one place it’s difficult to just invite people to the wedding and not the reception.
Do you invite people who you were once friends with for prosperities sake? Or do you just go with the people that you are friends with at the current time, and plan on being friends with in the future?
I guess costs come into it. We don’t have a big wedding planned. We have a reasonable amount of money, but would rather save some and go to Phuket for our honeymoon. We’re looking at an 80 head count. For people who don’t know much about weddings they think that’s a lot. My friend is having about 150 to hers, and another wanted about 300 originally. That’s a big wedding. Ours could easily be big, but that’s not really the theme. 80 covers our extended families and a few friends- and not even all of our extended families…
Part of me wouldn’t mind if it were just Luke, I, our immediate families and our pastor. The other part of me wants to share this beautiful day with everyone.
People are starting (what am I talking about, they’ve been doing it ever since we announced we were engaged) to boss me around. I don’t like it. I have ideas and thoughts and I want to do what I want to do. It’s our wedding, not theirs.
I don’t know quite why I’m writing this. Maybe just to get people’s thoughts on weddings guests and costs and themes… my mind is boggled with it all, and I have Uni and work and Prac and friends and church and family all boggled in there too. It gets a little confusing.
I think it’s important to remember that it’s OUR wedding. Luke and mine. I can’t just do what I want, and so that goes with guests- both numbers and names, times, locations, attire… everything (except I got to do the dress just me and mum!). It’s an US thing. Really our first official ‘us’ thing, and so we have to do it together I think, to do it right.
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March 30 2007 03:55 am | 1Wedding/Marriage
March 30th, 2007 at 8:00 am
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