Are you inviting cousins?

We did first and second cousins on my side as I am close with most of my second cousins (some are part of the wedding). Plus there are only like 9 second cousins on my side. We stopped at 1st cousins on FHs side as there are like 25+ kids and he is not close with any of them. It would be chaos if we invited them.

My FH is inviting his closest first cousins, I don't have many so that helps me out!

We invited first cousins. I'm very close with mine, as we grew up together and are generally around the same age. Most of them are married or engaged, but no kids. His cousins were considerably older than him, so there wasn't a lot of closeness there, and they already have kids, but we're having a kid-free reception. My mom wants to invite her cousin too.

Generally, if we haven't spoken to them in quite a few years, they aren't on our guest list (unless it's by special request of our parents). That brings it down to grandparents, aunts uncles, cousins, and friends generally.

We invited our first cousins, but no second cousins.

And then FMIL contributed some $$, which also included extending the guest list to her cousins...and second cousins...and great aunts and uncles..

I'm inviting first cousins from my side. Two of my cousins are in my wedding party, MOH & BM. I'm very close with 4 of my first cousins and their spouses. We hang out weekly for the most party. Some of my other cousins won't be attending due to work or other reasons. My FH has yet to tell me if he wants to include his first cousins.

So many cousins ... I invited my first cousin on my mom's side, and her two adult daughters and one other adult daughter of another deceased first cousin (and their spouses/kids), who all are pretty much immediate family to me. I am an only child. From my dad's side, I only invited the first cousins who I have a relationship with, leaving out most of them, and feeling kind of bad about it, but I'm willing to accept the consequences. They are all OOT, and scattered throughout the country. They add up to about 15 first cousins on that side, not including their spouses; I invited 3 of them, plus their spouses of course.

I've also grown up with a lot of my mom's cousins around (technically first cousins once removed - I've done some research on this, lol), so a lot of them are invited - 8 couples in all. Two of them (twins) are my very close friends, and one is actually my MOH. We drew the line at the teen/adult kids of all these cousins, except for two who we see all the time.

Thankfully, FH isn't close with any of his cousins, so none of his are invited. He has a fairly large immediate family though (5 sisters and 3 stepbrothers, all with spouses and/or kids), so it balances out a bit.

Most first cousins. I only have five. FH has a large family so he will have a harder time here. The ones he speaks to on a regular basis will be invited.

All cousins and only the second cousins specifically requested by our parents. Most of my BP are my cousins, they're my best friends!

Yes first cousins but i doubt they’ll come. The only family we have is crazzzzzyyyyy

On my family's side, absolutely! On my FH's side, we haven't decided yet, but leaning toward no since he is not close with them and never sees them. Two of his cousins got married and didn't invite us, however one that lives farthest from us did invite us - we just couldn't go.

No extended family. It is only parents, siblings and siblings spouse's, and 2 long time family friends.

We invited first cousins! We are very close with them and both have cousins in our BP!

Selected uncles, aunts, and cousins. Beyond that, no mostly because both of us have huge families and just can't invite them all...unfortunately

Yes! I have so many cousins that it's basically my entire guest list

Cousins aunts and uncles but not second cousins, great aunts and uncles. We are definitely going to make a few enemies over this but we just couldn't afford to host everyone.

Most if my cousins yes because we are very close, but significantly less of his!

Although I would love to cut down our guest list by eliminating cousins, we are each super close to some of his cousins. Therefore, we cannot invite some without them all. Only three of my cousins are invited, where he has 32 cousins that are invited (SO MANY AH) lol.

This one is tough. I am super close with my mom's cousins who are close to my age because of a huge age difference between my grandma and her younger sister (who is only 7 years older than my mom). I am the oldest of all my first cousins on both sides, so it's basically having to invite all my aunts/uncles and the "kids" of those families who are now mostly teens/college-aged. I also have a blended family and there's a side I'd rather not invite but feeling a bit like I have to... sigh. Trying to figure out how I can be brave to just invite the people who are close to us and have supported our relationship (not popping out of the woodwork now that we're engaged...) Also depends on what happens with parents paying... I will feel a lot more obligated to invite their sides if they contribute a lot to the wedding but I don't know yet what they want to do, other than "something". My fiance has no first cousins and only a couple extended family members on the list.

I'm only inviting one cousin and my FH is only inviting 4 cousins, though I doubt all of his will go and I even doubt mine will go. Our wedding is SUPER small so we had to cut the list somewhere.

We might be, but I'm gonna talk to my fiancé about it because I don't think he will want family that he doesn't talk to at our wedding.