How do I invite the right number of people to my Destination Wedding?
How do I invite the right number of people to my Destination Wedding? So, you are at the start of planning and already you have a huge question to answer! Don’t panic, we can help.
Obviously you need to start with a list of your family and current friends that you’d like to come. This is where the problems usually start with any wedding, but with a Destination Wedding you have to really drill down to the people you REALLY want to come.
Unfortunately, not all of them will be able to join you. When you are planning you have to remember that you will be asking your guests to make a substantial investment of their time and money to join you. They may not have holiday days available, your dates may clash with other things they are committed to, and finally, they might not be able to afford it. Remember, as we said before (CLICK HERE) The real joy of a destination celebration is that you get plenty of time with everyone, so make sure these are people you want to spend time with!
You can include people who can’t make the wedding in a celebration party. We recommend you hold this after you return so you can show everyone pictures and videos of the wedding, but you don’t have to hold it afterwards, you can have it whenever you want. We’ve done parties before the destination trip and as long afterwards as the first anniversary! There will be a blog on this topic soon.
How do I invite the right number of people to my Destination Wedding ~ First things first.
Work out who you have to have there. Here are some questions you may want to ask …
Who are the people who you couldn’t imagine not being there?
Do you have friends or family with restricted mobility who won’t be able to cope with travelling?
Is anybody likely to be “very pregnant” and therefore not able to attend?
How many people do you have space for?
What date do you plan to have the ceremony?
What about children?
Plus ones?
The Next Step
Use this information to create your initial list and then try and sound everyone out. Explain what, where and when to them and see if they are available and want to join you. If anyone can’t make it look at who’s next on your list, do you want to fill the spaces or are you happy with just the guests that can attend?
Invitations
Then you can send out your official invitations. We recommend the invitations for a destination wedding contain a lot more information than a traditional invite. You should give everyone as much help as you can and make it as easy as possible for them to join you. Again, we’ll cover this in another blog post soon, but if you want help now please ask.
We also found this excellent article online on Destination Wedding Guest List Etiquette CLICK HERE
How do I invite the right number of people to my Destination Wedding … did that help?
Hopefully this blog post will help, but we are only scratching the surface. As we said in a previous post CLICK HERE a Wedding Planner can really help you with your Destination Wedding. If you want more help please email hello@fuertefineweddings.co.uk or click here.
