Wedding preparation - creating the guest list

When you decide to have a wedding ceremony to declare you couple are getting married to your family, relatives, friends, and the circles of you both, instead just silently register legal marriage files, and move together to start a new life style which is totally allowed, the first and the most important thing you couple to do to plan a wedding is to conceive and establish a guest list. After all, wedding is a social activity, in which attendants are the roles and players. First thing is the first, after the first step settled down, you will find the other various seemingly-mess stuffs followed and solved accordingly and automatically.

The quantity and scope of the guest list determines lots of aspects of a wedding ceremony, such as the budget, the wedding locations for both the ceremony and the reception. More attendants in the guest list means big fat budget; more attendants coming from long distance not only means more spend on commuting and accommodation, but more detailed consideration and planing for them. Therefore if your guest list is long and your budget mean, you may have to give up a big, formal, sit-down dinner reception. Otherwise, reduce your guest list down to fit. Narrowing the guest list is the easiest and most effective way to cut spending.

It is a good practice to divide your guest list into priority and less priority groups in every circle, so you will have priority family and relative members, priority friends members, priority colleagues members, as well as the less priority one. First contact the priority list, if they can't attend the wedding, and you still want to or have to keep the wedding scale, then you have alternatives.

Sending wedding card to your guests is the traditional and formal way to notice them, although you have more options in current the high-tech communication society.