Our Guest List

This is probably one of the easiest things that I did all through this whole wedding. Of course it was one of the first things so I didnt have anything to compare it to at the time. However it was a nice way to spend time with Jon and come up with who we wanted to share our wedding with. When we first started, we were just saying names and writing them down on a list in no particular order. This didnt go on for too long when we both decided that it was not worth having to go and look for the names when it came time to get the addresses for everyone. So we broke it down in a sense and made our one big list into 4 smaller ones. The four categories were my family, my friends, Jon's family and Jon's friends. This turned out to be much easier and the list was broken up so when we got addresses it was very easy. First Jon called his mother for the addresses that she had. Most of them she did have and some she didnt so we had to call around to finish getting his family's addresses. Although this didnt take too much time, it was still somewhat a hassle to call around to get addresses especially when we had to leave messages to get the addresses. So by the time it was my turn to get addresses from my family I thought it a better way to E-mail two people, one from each side of my family, and give them a list of people who I needed addresses from and ask them to email me back with the addresses. This worked so much better. It was more organized, took less amounts of time, and there was no possibility of misspellings. Then for friends and such we just decided to send an email to them all and also a mass text just in case they did not have email. Finally the guest list was done and it turned out that we were planning on inviting 206 people. About the size of a medium size wedding.