Are you inviting your parents' friends?

Yes, but mainly my mom’s friend’s because they are my “aunties,” her best friends.

From my side we had some family friends that I have known for years so it was a must. For his side the in laws wanted to invite some friends of them. We didn’t know them that well but we got to know them better during the planning with some night outs. We were able to include them since some people cancel and it was important for the in laws to have them there.

Nope, but I will be inviting them to a nice luncheon the day after the wedding.

Only if I’ve known them for a long time and they’re pretty much family.

My dad has no friends. ( not being rude, just honest) and my mom has one and he was invited. He’s been around since I was a kid though, so more like family

Not my mothers, but my fathers bosses I am. I have known them for a while, I so don't mind it! My FH will not be inviting his parents co-workers or friends.

The only friends of my dad’s that were inviting are like uncles to me so they were going to be invited regardless. My mom just found a cousin of hers from Scotland that she’s asking me to invite so we can all meet in person so I did say yes to that as it was a very crazy coincidence. Me and my fiancé made our guest list and kept it private for a bit so that they couldn’t input a bunch of random people. At my sisters wedding my dad invited 6 of his coworkers and their wives and so I told him that wasn’t happening before I even got engaged lol. We basically are kinda vetoing or saying yes on a case by case basis.

Some of them, but only the ones we have known since we were little

Definitely not lol

No we are paying for everything ourselves and if we put the foot down with one Mom we had to follow suit with the other.

We asked my mom and my fiancé’s parents for their guests lists. Meaning they would write all the family and friends on their sides that they wanted and we only wrote a list of our friends. My mom added 2 friends I know very well and my future mil added maybe 20 friends that I’ve never heard of, on top of family members I’ve never heard of. I quizzed my fiancé on who these people were and then decided just to let it go. It’s his day too and he wants to make his mom happy so if that means inviting everyone in the state, oh well. And yes we are paying for the wedding ourselves so I could’ve put my foot down and maybe still should 🤷🏼‍♀️

Nope! Too much family and friends are coming as is so we don't have room for that!

Nope, I really don’t know their friends. I know this may seem harsh. We don’t want a lot of people we don’t know at our wedding.

Well since it's our wedding we chose who we wanted and did not want. No, no parents friends.

I invited my Mom’s co-workers, first Cousins, and friends.

No. They were the first to get cut. Our parents aren’t paying for anything so they don’t get a say in our opinion.

Yes a few are invited. They're happy for us and want to celebrate with a few of their friends. We both have a large church family so it's fine.

Only the one's we know and like!

Sore subject for us... my fiancé’s parents gave us a small amount of money (we spent nearly 10x that on our wedding) and so my fiancé felt that he had to say yes to every single friend his parents wanted to invite. They ended up with two tables of friends.... It of course really upset me because i don’t know any of them. it was further dramatic because they kept asking for a guest list which i felt was invasive, but of course fiancé obliged them. for us, we weren’t on the same page with how to handle his parents and their entitlement to make decisions in our wedding. which caused a huge strain for us. we are nearly 30 years old and i have made nearly every decision for myself my entire life, so having his parents feel the need to “approve” things really rubbed me the wrong way. looking back I should have put my foot down on a lot of things (and i tried, but fiancé is stubborn too) and he knows they will not be invading in our decisions as a married couple. they really made the entire engagement more stressful than it ever had to be (on top of us both having very stressful jobs and planning the wedding ourselves). i’m hoping after the big day i won’t feel so regretful about letting them be more involved than i wanted. i know they are excited but i just felt like it was never about me, but about them and how they felt and what they wanted.

We are inviting a good amount of our parents friends that we are close with as well.