How do you go about deciding who to invite and who to exclude?
My fiancé and I made a rough draft of our guest list and I am overwhelmed by the 190 names that stared back at me. I was expecting to come out with roughly 150 invitees and then expecting some to decline but not that does not seem like the case and I just cannot see myself having a wedding that large or that expensive.
The majority of the list is family; grandparents, parents, siblings, nieces, nephews, uncles, aunts, and first cousins. We did have to include a lot of second cousins and many of them are children and most of our extended family will be traveling to us for the wedding. Friends make up a small portion of our list and even going through those names; they are people who we see all the time or are very close family friends.
I feel stuck in not wanting to upset anyone or make anyone feel left out but I do not want to overwhelm ourselves with the size and expenses.
