The most important and the first place you wanna start to plan a budget is with your guest list. Now of course your guest list is usually not final until two weeks prior to the wedding. With that being said its good to sit down and get a ball figure head count on how many people you want to invite. The reason being is the price quotes you will get are going to almost be based on how many people are on your guest list. When I first started planning my wedding I wanted to invite everybody and my guest list got way over 250 WAY OVER. Now lets be all the way real for the moment first of all of those 250 people how many of them would actually show up? How many of them did I really have a close relationship with? How many of them did I actually know? The reality is if you are on a budget you really can not over invite because in the likely hood all 250 show up (not including whoever they bring) you will have to feed all those folks.
When figuring out the guest number you want to be logical and rational, inviting your 3rd cousin on your mama side that you haven't seen since you were 3 may not be in the budget. Would you really even have anything to say to them besides man its been a long time how have you been? The fact of the matter is some folks will just have to catch your wedding via facebook or instagram. I know that sounds so rude huh but honestly a lot of people only want to come to see what your wedding will look like eat, take pictures and go home. Sad to say but why invite a coworker you haven't worked with since your high school summer job? You should want your wedding day to be full of love and support and no reason to have any negative people killing your vibe. Sit down with your fiance and decide what kinda vibe you want at your wedding. Our wedding will be low key and intimate we want our wedding to be about our families getting to know each other. That really helped me narrow my list down to 80-100 invites with a possibility of 50 extras for a total number of 150.
At the end of the day planning a wedding will be one of the most stressful things you will ever do in your life. Save your self some headaches and panic attacks by keeping it simple. Invite those that have played a vital roll in your relationship. When your are at the alter and you are saying your vows who do you want to look up and see in the crowd? Who do you want to share that very intimate moment with? I know I only want those that love me unconditionally to be apart of that. Thanks for reading I hope this post was helpful stay tuned for more tips.
No comments:
Post a Comment