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Arieta
Just Said Yes April 2023

Please help! Guest list woes

Arieta, on May 12, 2021 at 12:30 PM Posted in Planning 0 4
Hey all! This may sound scattered I’m sorry just stressed! So I’ve been engaged for a year now. We started planning but stopped because of COVID and being unsure of what we want to do! We have been together 9 1/2 years now. We know we definitely want to get married in Puerto Rico. I’m just having the hardest time with making hard decisions! I am unfortunately a people pleaser and feel so guilty not inviting all of our friends and family. I want to keep this wedding on the cheaper side so I know I can’t invite everyone. I just don’t know who to weed out. I say only close friends and family but then that is still a lot of people between the two of us. Even the bare minimum is still about 60 people. I feel horrible but I don’t want to invite people with kids because I can’t afford their children! So my thought was only inviting our parents and close friends that would be in our wedding party. I would love to do a celebration back home with everyone that we couldn’t invite to our dream wedding but I’m not sure how I would go about that? I feel like I can’t have a bridal shower with all my friends if I’m not inviting them to the destination wedding. Having a destination wedding and then a celebration at home will still be expensive. Ugh. I voice my concerns to my fiancé and then he just says we will just having a wedding at home then. That’s not what I want I’m just so conflicted on what to do!

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Latest activity by Lynnie, on May 13, 2021 at 4:04 PM
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    That's the downside of destination weddings. often you have to choose between a place and the people you want to be there and potentially giving up things like a bridal shower. The two of you together need to figure out which one is more important. If you're goal is saving money, then a DW with an at home reception won't save you anything. Decide what's important and then just have one event.

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    Just Said Yes April 2023
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    Would it be more realistic to do a marriage celebration vs an actual reception? I want our ceremony to be special but still would like to celebrate with family back home. I’m thinking instead of a bridal shower just do a party after we get back
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    Well if it's not immediately following the ceremony you're just hosting a party. You need to have a reception in PR for anyone who travels to the destination wedding. If you do an after party, those people aren't invited to the actual event (since it was in PR) so you wouldn't have a shower or send registry info to the people invited to just the after party. That said, it's totally fine to have an at home reception!! Tons of people do this, you just have to be ok with 1) probably many people not attending your actual wedding 2) giving up the bridal shower/registry info for everyone stuff.

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    WeddingWire Administrator October 2016
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    I think that's the perfect plan!! Smiley heart

    Skip the shower, and just throw a big party for your 'Celebration of Marriage' after you get back from your intimate destination wedding! 🍾Smiley ring

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