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(Closed) Inviting Certain Family Members

posted 6 years ago in Family

Post # 1

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Newbee

janellephant
6 years ago

Wedding: October 2015

Hi Bees,

I have a very large Filipino family, but am having a fairly small wedding (100 guests). While there are some family members I’d like to invite that I’m close to, I’m not as familar with some of their brothers and sisters. I figured as most of them are 18-21 it wouldn’t be a problem as they’re adults, but I don’t want to be disrespectful. If I have to invite ALL of the siblings AND their children, my guestlist would bump up to 150+ and I can’t have that many people.

Does anyone have any experience with this? I want to be a respectful as possible to all of my family members, but the whole “it’s your wedding, you can invite who you’d like” argument doesn’t exactly suffice here.

I appreciate the advice!

Tagged: etiquette, family, guest lists, respect

Post # 2

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452 posts

Helper bee

jb2015
6 years ago

Wedding: August 2015

Im not of the same culture but my guest list went basically like this.

My parents

my aunts and uncles and their significant others on mum and dads side.

Grandparents on both sides.

One great aunt (and significant other) from each side (the ones i talk to the most)

No cousins. No kids.

Obviously it depends on your family dynamic but the only backlash i got was ny grandpa on my mums side said that i should invite more of his family. I told him if he felt like contributing i might consider inviting the extras but as it stands we are at the number we want and thats that.

Goodluck.

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