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We are having a casual welcome open house for all our out-of-state friends and family on Friday. It will probably just be a few hours, and people can come and go, visit, eat or just have a drink. If you're planning on having a full sit-down dinner at a restaurant, though, then I kinda feel that just bridal party (and spouses) is good enough.
I'm in the same predicament. Expecting 160 for the wedding but the rehearsal dinner numbers are at 78 with out of towners, seems a little extravagant. I'm considering doing bridal party, immediate family (I'd exclude cousins) and out of town family members.
I would do bridal party/dates, and immediate family (siblings and parents only).
I just feel guilty leaving people out. A lot of the family has rolls in the wedding, or they are throwing us showers, so I feel like if I include one, I must include all. It's creating a trickle down effect, hmm. I wish I was rich! lol
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I'm having a really hard time deciding who we should invite to the rehearsal dinner. Originally we were going to have the wedding party, and our immediate families(aunts/uncles/grandparents/cousins), at a very nice restaurant. But some people are saying it is poilte to invite everyone that is in from out of town, except 95% of our guests are all out of town. Oh, and we have 20 people in our bridal party, so with their dates, thats about 35 people. So my question is, do we invite
~The wedding party only,at a very nice restaurant, and forget about everyone else(35 people)
~The wedding party and our families, at a nice restaurant, and forget about out of town people(80 people)
~Have a dinner for the wedding party, and cocktails/appetizers for everyone else(families/out of town guests)
~ Invite everyone to one dinner, at a semi nice restaurant(150)
Obviously the smaller the group, the nicer the restaurant we can have, for our budget. We are doing oot welcome bags, so it's not like the out of town guests will feel unloved. I also thought about if we only did the wedding party, we could include gift cards in our immediate families welcome bags, for a restaurant that's close by. ugghhh, so many options. Please tell me your opinions, and what each of you are doing for yours.