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Are you inviting everyone whose weddings you were invited to?

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    Amaryllis    July 2, 2011  

    Do you automatically include people on your guest list if they invited you to their wedding? What if you didn't go?

     
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    Running Elley    June 19, 2011   Fresno, CA

    We aren't. One of FI's old college roommates got married last year and we were invited. I'd never met them before and FI hadn't seen them for a few years. We went to the wedding and it was beautiful but we haven't hung out with them since. When we first started working on the guest list I included them but it got to the point where I would rather invite 2 people who we know and who are actually involved in our lives. I think it's a case by case thing.

     
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    Jeannine @ Small Chic    June 1, 2012   Virginia

    I think it depends on how old you are and where your social circle is.

    I'm 33.  I've been going to weddings for a decade now.  I'm not inviting everyone who ever invited me to their wedding. 

    If I was 23-25, my answer would probably be different.  :)

     
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    linguo42    February 27, 2011   Vancouver, B.C.

    Nope. We didn't have anywhere near enough room. Our wedding was only 50 people and I don't even really talk to some people whose weddings I've been to anymore, so I was definitely not going to invite those people over my close friends. My rule of thumb was if you can't imagine your wedding without them, invite them. If you feel like you'd be inviting them out of "obligation", they're cut.

     
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    Prewitt    June 19, 2011   England

    No we aren't.

     
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    Scottielass    July 3, 2011   Westerville, OH

    We only have space for about 80 people at the restaurant so we aren't inviting all the people who have invited us to their weddings, including extended family.

    Personally, I wouldn't worry about invites if you didn't go to the people-in-question's wedding. 

     
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    Gemstone    July 2011   Cincinnati

    Yep, because I'm a people-pleaser. But mostly because our numbers allowed for it.

     
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    iheartnerds    October 9, 2011   Massachusetts

    I think we're inviting most couples whose weddings we've been invited to in the past few years, but not out of a sense of obligation. These are people we genuinely want at our wedding.

     
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    Nope. This was hard for me, but there was one couple whose wedding I had been invited to as they got married the week after college graduation. I didn't go and have not spoken to them since and its been 4+ years. Another girl was a frenemy and she only invited me to her wedding, not my now husband who was my FI at the time, so she got cut.

     
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    summerbride12    June 12, 2011  

    Yes and No.

    The yes situation is because we were both (my FI and I) in their wedding party

    And no, to another couple that I used to be close with the bride when we worked together, butw e haven't seen them or barely spoken to them since their wedding last year, so they didn't make it onto our guestlist.

    I wouldn't invite someone simply because they invited me before though. It just depends if I honestly want them there or not.

     

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