Archive for July, 2009
I’m having a destination wedding in a foreign country next May 2010. I have about 12-15 people that will be traveling from the US to this country for the first time. Should I send them information about the country….things to do…local restaurants…attractions..etc. with my save the date or should I just send that as a separate package to each of them? I want them to enjoy this country and have a very good time while they are there…not just during the wedding, Please help!
That’s a lot of info to send with the STDs. It’s a much better idea to provide the info for them at a later date. Many couples put "out-of-town" baskets out in the hotel rooms for their guests. This usually has some useful items, local specialties, and information about the area in it. This might be an option to consider. 
It’s nice you’re being so thoughtful about your guests having a good time.
I was wondering if anyone had any good ideas of how to make a list of people to invite to my wedding. It hasn’t been an easy task I’m thinking of inviting 300 people.
My wife and I used an Excel spreadsheet. It had 5 columns.
1.) People’s names
2.) Number of people invited
3.) Number of people who said they will actually attend
4.) Description of the gift they gave, if any
5.) Thank you note sent or not?
6.) Picture of the people invited
Happy planning and congratulations!
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well great news! i am newly engaged since last night! we decided to wait about 2-3 years or so to tie the knot but during that time- how do i start planning, what all do i have to plan- really i need a wedsite that has a full checklist from food to a garter- thanks in advance!
Congrats to you! I know you are very happy!! 2 or 3 years is still awhile before the wedding but there are many websites that have checklists like theknot.com. You can start by figuring out where you want to have the wedding, what month, outside, inside, a church, the beach, ect. then start looking for the perfect wedding dress, that actually takes awhile, figure out how many guests, the bridesmaids, maid of honor and what dresses you would like them to wear. Then there is the reception and what food you want to serve. Music of course! The first dance, father/daughter dance, mother/daughter dance and also songs that will be played during the cermony/reception. Are you going to go with traditional vows or write your own vows, Of course your color scheme! So as you can see there is alot of things to do and it’s never too early to start looking/planning!! Good Luck
My Fiance and I are getting ready to start outlining out wedding plans and we are starting with a guest list. We want a guest list of roughly 100 people. Not real small and not big at all. So we want to make our guest list and then start chopping away.
How is the most gentle way to do this that will be least likely to offend our parents about relatives that we aren’t close to.
Your parents aren’t getting married so they don’t decide that. Sit down with your fiance and decide who is nearest and dearest to you. Don’t invite people out of obligation whom you are not close to at all just to fill seats or please other people. Your wedding day is not about your parents or his or anyone else. Do you want to have total strangers at your wedding or other people you don’t care about? Especially since weddings are not cheap and if you are serving a full meal as most people do these days, those can easily be $50-200+ per person depending on where you are located and most couples don’t really want to pay that much for people they will never see again.
Some guidelines that alot of people suggest as ways to cut the list but is by no means a mandatory list and may not apply to everyone:
- Have you spoken to this person in the last year?
- Do you regularly exchange Christmas cards?
- Have you invited this person to your home for dinner?
We have friends and family that we aren’t able to see as often as we’d like but we still keep in touch as much as we can even if it isn’t regularly and can’t imagine the day without them so I don’t personally see that as a factor to cut someone. But I could see why someone else would if they live in a close-knit community with most people they love all around them (and no more than 30min drive total for example), but not everyone is that lucky because people move around and have lives of their own.
Edit: I’ve never gotten the hierarchy that people use to determine who should be invited and who should be cut. That is assuming that we live in a perfect world where everyone gets along great and there are no feuds or bitterness or whatever going on, which is not the case for most families in real life. So it doesn’t really make sense why you would be expected to cut your closest friends who may be just like family to you because you have to invite "close" (as in relation by blood rather than how you actually interact with each other) relatives who don’t get along with you for whatever reason instead because society says the relatives "are more important". According to whom? Society is not making the guest list so they don’t get a say either.
Can anyone give me a link to download a Wedding checklist?
You can email me if you want. I have one that my DIL used. I don’t mind sending it to you, but don’t want to put it on the web.
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Perfect Wedding Guide hosted its second bridal show at NC A&T Alumni Foundation Event Center on July 12, 2009. For more information on future shows and to get discount tickets visit www.bridalshownc.com.
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Learn how Jen, a New York Googler, used a Google Docs template to create a guest list for her upcoming wedding.
Go to the template gallery at http://docs.google.com/templates, search for “wedding guest list”, and get her template for your own event.
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Bill and Lizzie go over their check list. The vows are with Josh. Bill wants to call Josh to make sure that he has them. Josh tells Bill that he forgot about the wedding. He’s down in Florida with Reva. They are looking for Jeffrey. Josh promises to call another minister. Bill says it’s fine as he looks over at a concerned Lizzie. It’s just a minor set back. Lizzie asks what is minor. Bill tells her. They can just call another minister at the church. They have copies of the vows. Everything will be fine. They just have to go get the flowers, food, band and other goodies. It will all be fine.
Mallet attempts to grill Marina lightly about the stroller without her knowing. He mentions that it is broken. It had to have been a pretty hard blow. Marina flippantly says that she dropped it outside sometime. She has no clue what happened to it really. They can’t use that for the wedding. Mallet says it’s fine. He will take care of the stroller.
Dinah surprises Shayne on surveillance. Dinah’s first night back and Shayne leaves her alone without a goodbye. Was it something she said? Shayne just wanted to watch over Henry. He’d much rather be home in bed with Dinah. Dinah understands that Shayne is worried about his kid who is being raised by other people. Dinah got Shayne some breakfast. He’s touched and kisses her. Dinah says that they need a bigger car if they are going to be doing surveillance together. If they do that then they can sleep in shifts.
Lizzie talks to the florist about her wedding. She loved these dahlias that she saw in the catalog. The gardener gives her a box of bulbs. Why does she have these? She needs to plant the flowers. She will have those dahlias in a year. Lizzie needs them for today. Bill arrives at the bands place to find them sick as dogs. Bad seafood. They can not come to the wedding. They can offer Bill a boom box and some cds. Bill reluctantly says it will be fine. The drummer rushes off to puke. Lizzie attempts to keep calm. What other flowers does the gardener have? He sold out of most of his stuff. He does have these wimpy carnations. Lizzie says that they will be fine. She’s not going to freak out.
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