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Lynnie
WeddingWire Administrator October 2016

Are you inviting everyone whose wedding you've attended?

Lynnie, on September 3, 2019 at 11:05 AM

Posted in Etiquette and Advice 88

What's your stance on reciprocal wedding invites? Did you automatically add them to your guest list if you were invited to their wedding? Or did it depend on how long ago their wedding was? Next Question: Are you inviting friends you haven't seen recently? Back to the Beginning: Who made the cut? ...

What's your stance on reciprocal wedding invites? Did you automatically add them to your guest list if you were invited to their wedding? Or did it depend on how long ago their wedding was?



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Next Question: Are you inviting friends you haven't seen recently?

Back to the Beginning: Who made the cut?

88 Comments

  • Heather
    Expert April 2020
    Heather ·
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    Not everyone, just the ones I have stayed in contact with. There are at least two that I am not inviting, that I went to their wedding. I tried to keep contact and hang out, but the communication was not mutual.

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  • Diana
    VIP December 2019
    Diana ·
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    We invited some of theses who we attend their wedding. But not all.
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  • Valentina
    Devoted September 2019
    Valentina ·
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    No I don’t think they have a venue big enough!
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  • Mary
    Expert July 2019
    Mary ·
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    My husband really struggled with this, but I didn't have this problem at all. I've only attended weddings with my husband after we started dating and we already extended an invite to all those couples!

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  • M
    Legend June 2019
    Melle ·
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    Yes for sure we did this
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  • Katelyn
    Expert October 2020
    Katelyn ·
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    I've only attended two, my brother and my sisters, and they are in fact invited. My sister is in my wedding party and my brother's wife and son are also in the wedding party.

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  • Catherine
    VIP November 2019
    Catherine ·
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    Yes, but most of them were close friends or family. They wouldve gotten the invitation regardless.

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  • Kayla
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    Kayla ·
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    Most of the weddings I’ve been to are family. I have a very large family (60+ first cousins, and most of them have their own kids now. We also all still see each other a few times a year) so all of them will receive an invite!
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    Dedicated October 2021
    Millicent ·
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    I've been to the weddings of some family friends' daughters/sons and they aren't invited to mine, but the couple from every wedding I've attended as an adult are invited to mine.

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  • Kate
    Devoted November 2019
    Kate ·
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    No. There were a couple weddings I attended a few years ago, and we're not inviting either of those couples. One lives in the same city as us, and the other was a surprise invite (I wouldn't have been offended if I hadn't been invited). I haven't seen one of them since 6 months after her wedding (about 3 years ago now), and haven't really spoken to the other.
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  • Jasmine
    Master August 2021
    Jasmine ·
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    I haven't been to many weddings. I was invited to one of my old friends' wedding but was unable to attend. I think it would only be fair to invite them! Other than them, nope!

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  • L
    Devoted August 2019
    Leaves232 ·
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    The most recent wedding we attended of a friend we *didn't* invite to our own was over 5 years ago. If we haven't talked in 5 years it just seems odd to extend an invite.
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  • ALYSSA
    Devoted September 2019
    ALYSSA ·
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    The only wedding that wasn't family I've been to has moved out of state and we've been bad about keeping in touch. So no. FH says he's never been to a wedding

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  • Michaela
    Super May 2020
    Michaela ·
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    Yes there is one couple my FH wants to invite. The guys were close in college, but we haven't seen or talked to them since their wedding two years ago. I'm generally in the "more the merrier" mindset, but they will have to get cut if the guest list gets any bigger

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  • 8Bitbek
    Devoted October 2020
    8Bitbek ·
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    We have 5 weddings including our own next year (it's gonna be an expensive one! ugh..) and all of the other couples are invited, but they would have been invited regardless.

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    Judith ·
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    What a hoot that would be. Hubby would have invited 200 plus couples whose weddings he has gone to, I would have done the same, then a hundred or more other family, and the 500-600 couples who said yes would have had to stand outside and eat lollypops, the only thing we could afford to feed that many people. . The " you have to invite those you were BM for to be in your wedding" and reciprocal they invited me to theirs, so I must invite them to mine, make sense to those with very small families, who have only been to 10 or fewer weddings. For those of us with big families, who between family and friends attend 3 to 19 weddings in most years, . . . and are in late 20's or older, it is ridiculous to think about. Like keeping track of 20 years of rabbits having rabbits.
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  • N
    Dedicated October 2020
    Neena ·
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    Yes we are doing reciprocal invites. Weddings, christenings, etc. If you’ve gotten an envelope with money from us in the last three years or so then you better attend or send one back. Otherwise you’re dead to us.
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  • Nodyia
    Expert October 2020
    Nodyia ·
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    I'm going to say in the pass 10 years I've been to 3 weddings and yes they are invited to our wedding the same with my FH he got invited but couldn't attend one of the weddings.

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  • Tiffany
    Savvy July 2020
    Tiffany ·
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    I have only been to one of my friends weddings and she was one of the first persons on there
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  • Tamera
    Expert May 2020
    Tamera ·
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    We haven’t been invited to too many weddings, but we are only reciprocating for the family members’ weddings we were invited to
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