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Fiance has a huge family... help.

Liliana, on February 28, 2020 at 12:52 AM Posted in Planning 0 5

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Hello ladies! I am marrying a man with a very big family! We only sent save the dates to family and friends that live out of state and more than 4 hours away. We are getting ready to send invites out here in the next month or so. His family is Mexican and they are not the best at RSVP's. Our venue is able to accommodate 300 people and we have a guest list of 250 at this time. And we haven't even included many friends, the list is mostly all of his family, the only friends I have invited are the ones that are in the wedding and a couple of childhood friends (less than 20 total). I'm starting to freak out a bit because we both agreed to stay at or under 240 but it's just not possible with how big his family is. Should I wait until we start getting rsvp's back before we invite any more friends? Any help is appreciated! Thank you!

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Latest activity by Jennifer, on February 28, 2020 at 1:05 PM

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Dj Tanner · on February 28, 2020 at 1:10 AM
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I would say wait until you get the rsvps as it can be so stressful praying you get “no’s” back to not go over budget.
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Onya · on February 28, 2020 at 4:30 AM
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We just didn’t invite some family. 🤷🏽‍♀️It may upset a few but if I️ dont Talk to you regularly or even as frequent I’m not inviting you just because your family.
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Kendra · on February 28, 2020 at 7:54 AM
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So I'm in a similar situation but it's my family that is huge. Counting my cousins and their kids, there are 60 of them. My family alone is 90 people so I understand your pain.
We opted to just do immediate family, grandparents, aunts and uncles, and first cousins. Most of my dad's side of the family has already had kids, so a lot of my first cousins have kids now. We opted to not invite any kids that weren't first cousins even though it was hard. I cannot afford to pay for that much extra so that's what worked for us.
I will say, once you send out invitations it's hard to know how many people will say yes. I'd say do the painful trimming of the list first otherwise you'll regret it later!!
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Danielle · on February 28, 2020 at 11:31 AM
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My fh family I deep. I'm nervous a hell because I didn't send std's to everyone who expects to still get an invite. Ppl are straight up saying when you sending invites?? I've realized we will have about 40 more ppl than I originally planned. We can afford I but I wanted to keep it smaller. My brother made a great point he said ppl wanna enjoy your wedding, especially family. Yall been together almost 20 yrs everyone wants to see that. Lol
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Jennifer · on February 28, 2020 at 1:05 PM
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Definitely wait until you some no's before inviting anyone else, if you choose to go that route!
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