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There are a bunch of people on my guest list that 1) Ive never met and 2) I had never even heard of!! I havent done a count but Im going to guess its over 20 something because I havent met a lot of my FIs cousins (he hasnt met most of mine on my mom's side either) and then there are FILs friends that I didnt even know existed before this! Ugh I hate guest lists! Good luck getting your invitations out!
I knew everyone at our wedding, but there were a few people that I had only met once at a family reunion. My husband had to point them out to me in some pictures before I remembered meeting them.
Yeah right. We had 85 people from my MIL and I hadn't met probably....40 of them? DH knew them but they were like, family friends and relatives i'd never met. Ok i met them 3 years before at my SIL's wedding probably but seriously? who are they? Yeah. They were all nice but it was strange.
Ha! No!
The only people in The Guy Family who I know are his immediate family members (his parents, sisters, brothers-in-law and nieces and nephews), so I haven't met any of the other ~35 people who The Guy's parents have asked us to invite....should be interesting!
Nope, I don't know the majority of FI's family's invitees. A lot of them are in Israel or Australia, but I've also just never even heard their names before. And we're inviting them why??....Oh well, I've given up on that battle.
I've met everyone on FI's side of the list, and I think FI's met 90% of mine (there may be a few cousins that he missed last Xmas). We kept our guest list pretty small, extending only out to 1st cousins and very close friends (still around 130 ppl since I have a really big family).
I have personally met everyone on our guest list (about 120 people). We wanted a small wedding (it's gotten bigger than originally planned), but FI and I felt that it was very important that we personally know all the guests. We really limited the number of "family friends" that our parents invited.
I was very picky about who I did and didn't want to have on my guestlist, even of people I DO Know (ie. some family). There are probably 6 or 8 people I don't actually know who are business partners with my dad, that I haven't met or only met once, but I have no choice about inviting them. Out of our list of 250 people (80% family or friends like family) I think that's pretty good.
LOADS of people I've never met on future in-laws side... Half of whom I've never heard of... I too, have given up insisting a smaller, more intimate wedding. We were aiming for 130 people... its more like 150 now.
There were definitely a few on my parents and my inlaws' lists that I had never met. But I got over it, because they were paying for their guests and those people were important to them. We got to invite everyone we wanted to (well, within limits) so the more the merrier!
... I'd say I don't know about half our list, actually. Well, a little less than half. I haven't met most of Mr. KM's family cause they live up in Indian/ Michigan and he doesn't see them that much.
There are probably 30 invitees I've never heard of/never met/and if they come, I'll probably never see again.....mostly his extended fam (they live on the other side of the country)....
begs the question.....why arent we just sending these people announcements?!?!
As far as I'm aware, we don't have any strangers on the list, even though we haven't met every single one of each other's family and friends. If either of us don't know them, they don't get an invite. Weddings are expensive to begin with and should consist of your nearest and dearest rather than your hairdresser's mailman's brother whom you will never see again.
Even though Ive been with my hub for about 4 years I havent met everyone in his family
(a lot live away from us) ..
so i probably never met about 30 to 40 of them!
Out of 300 people, I only don't know a handful - mostly some friends of my fiance that have moved out of town. I have a large family, and we're basically inviting both of our churches. Plus, we live in a small town. So everyone knows everyone else!
there is definitely a large handful that I won't know - and that my fiance won't really know either but that are "very important" to be there...we all go through this it seems! ultimately, i'm sure it won't really bother me that they are there, and if it really means that much to invite them, then ok...!
There's only a few from of FI's family I've never met because they live in the UK. Ditto goes for mine. I'd say probably less a half dozen altogether.
There are probably about 10-20 people I will be meeting for the 1st time, since they are SO of guests who are relatively new in their relationships, and some extended family members from his side I don't know. He probably has more people that he does not know since my family is much bigger.
This was rule #1 for our guest list: No one that neither of us knows. Why would they want to be there anyway? There are a few of my relatives coming whom FI hasn't met yet, and I think one or two of his friends whom I haven't met yet, but 99% of the guest list we both know, love, and will feel wonderfully comfortable being surrounded by on our special day.
I know every single person. We made sure of that. No random people, distant relatives or random friends of the family popping out of the woodwork. We are only inviting 65 people, including ourselves.
There are a lot I don't know on my fiances side invited. They are all important but they are mostly old friends of his parents. I know the REALLY important friends very well just not the all. They come from a small town where they know everyone so there are a lot of friends.
We are having a destination wedding (I am from the US and my fiance is from Greece). We initially decided on a small wedding 100-150 close family and a few friends...however our guest list has now EXPLODED to 390! MY FIL used to play professional basketball in Greece and is inviting all of his former teammates and their families! Never met any of these people in my life and I highly doubt I'll ever see them again!
As a MOG, I tried really hard only to invite friends of mine who actually know both my son and daughter-in-law. As I was making my list, I kept thinking of my own wedding pictures from long ago when I look at them and say "Who the heck was that?"
Yeah, I don't know many of the people that are on FI's side of the invite list. Don't know if many of them are coming since they all live in a different state. I really wish we would invite only people that we know really well but oh well.
Yes. I don't know everyone on his list and he doesn't know everyone on mine but the first requirement was that at least one of us has to know each person in attendance. If we don't know who they are, and obviously are not close enough that we want to share the occasion with them, they are immediately axed from the guestlist.
Ugh, I'm an only child, so this is my mom's chance to throw a big party and invite everyone she wants. Out of a total guest list of about 315, 210 are her guests, probably about 185 of which I've never met. I don't love the idea of having that many strangers at my wedding, but this is clearly very important to her. And I guess what really matters is that my fiance and I get to invite the 100 or so people that we really want to have there.
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My invitations are hitting the mail this weekend - so exciting! I was taking a last look at our guest list , and realized that there will be some people (mostly distant relatives and family friends on the groom's side, like all my FMIL's golf buddies!) at our wedding that I'll be meeting there for the first time!
Of our 155 guests, I've never met 23 of them, and my FI has never met 16 of them. I wish that we both had the opportunity to get to know all these folks beforehand, but even though we've been together over five years that just hasn't happened!
Just curious - how many people on your guest list are strangers to you??