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<blockquote data-quote="Digital_Diva" data-source="post: 1453943" data-attributes="member: 169764">Over the holidays while my fiance was home with his family across the country, I asked him to get his mom to help him make a guest list for the wedding. I made one too for my family and friends to try to get a rough estimate of how many people would be invited. Well my family is much larger than his - just for family, my list was about 70 people - not including friends or close neighbours.Well the list he came up with with his mother and grandmother ended up being only about 60 people total, but many of the people on it were great-aunts and great-uncles and some were friends of his mom&#039;s that live far away and that he doesn&#039;t even know. But his parents have not offered to help pay for anything ... we are paying for most of the wedding, and my parents have offered to help some. So is it going to be a big deal if we knock some of those people off the list that my fiance doesn&#039;t know? I talked to my mom about this, and we kind of had two points of view on it - it&#039;s hard to knock people off his list since his list is so much smaller than mine (since his immediate family is small). But on the other hand, his parents aren&#039;t paying, so they shouldn&#039;t really be inviting people my fiance and I don&#039;t know since WE will be paying for them!What do you think?I just want to add that if I started inviting all my great aunts and uncles, my grandmother is one of 13 children ... so there would be a lot!&nbsp; And we see them a lot, I know them all by name.&nbsp; In contrast, my fiance couldn&#039;t even remember the names of these great-aunts and uncles that his mom and grandma want to invite.Just to be clear, the wedding is on a strict budget of $8 to 10,000.&nbsp; And we are paying for most of it, not the parents!&nbsp; My parents will be contributing maybe 1 or 2,000.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Digital_Diva, post: 1453943, member: 169764"] Over the holidays while my fiance was home with his family across the country, I asked him to get his mom to help him make a guest list for the wedding. I made one too for my family and friends to try to get a rough estimate of how many people would be invited. Well my family is much larger than his - just for family, my list was about 70 people - not including friends or close neighbours. Well the list he came up with with his mother and grandmother ended up being only about 60 people total, but many of the people on it were great-aunts and great-uncles and some were friends of his mom's that live far away and that he doesn't even know. But his parents have not offered to help pay for anything ... we are paying for most of the wedding, and my parents have offered to help some. So is it going to be a big deal if we knock some of those people off the list that my fiance doesn't know? I talked to my mom about this, and we kind of had two points of view on it - it's hard to knock people off his list since his list is so much smaller than mine (since his immediate family is small). But on the other hand, his parents aren't paying, so they shouldn't really be inviting people my fiance and I don't know since WE will be paying for them! What do you think? I just want to add that if I started inviting all my great aunts and uncles, my grandmother is one of 13 children ... so there would be a lot! And we see them a lot, I know them all by name. In contrast, my fiance couldn't even remember the names of these great-aunts and uncles that his mom and grandma want to invite. Just to be clear, the wedding is on a strict budget of $8 to 10,000. And we are paying for most of it, not the parents! My parents will be contributing maybe 1 or 2,000. [/QUOTE]

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