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How To Take The Stress Out Of Creating Your Guest List

How To Take The Stress Out Of Creating Your Guest List

Eight helpful hints to remember when deciding who to invite to your wedding.
Guest List Etiquette: How To Solve The Plus-One Dilemma

Guest List Etiquette: How To Solve The Plus-One Dilemma

Should your single guests be allowed to bring dates? Three things to keep in mind before you make that decision.

Where Should The Majority Of Your Wedding Budget Be Spent? We’ll Tell You.

Celebrity wedding planner David Connolly from Rich Bride, Poor Bride has joined Weddingbells as a guest blogger answering all of your burning wedding-related questions. Need some help with the planning process? Have a question about etiquette, organization or budgeting? Post

Apparently Even A Royal Wedding Guest List Needs Trimming Too!

The day after Prince William and Catherine Middleton announced their engagement, Buckingham Palace officials handed William a suggested guest list of 777 people—dignitaries, governors, and heads of state, but not one person he knew. “These are the people we should

Expert Advice On Narrowing Down The Guest List

Celebrity wedding planner David Connolly from Rich Bride, Poor Bride has joined Weddingbells as a guest blogger answering all of your burning wedding-related questions. Need some help with the planning process? Have a question about etiquette, organization or budgeting? Post

Is It Okay To Leave Kids Off The Guest List?

Concerned about other people’s little ones disrupting your ceremony but wondering if it’s rude to leave kids off the guest list? We took this oft-debated question to our loyal Facebook and Twitter followers to see what the general consensus is.

Budget-Minded Guest List

Q: Do you have to invite people just because you went to their wedding? I have a very large family and my fiancé and I don’t want to invite distant relatives because we are on a tight budget. What is

Wedding Do: Make a Guest List

After your budget is set and before you pick your venue, there’s just one teeny important factor you need to do: establish a guest list.

Who’s On The Guest List?

If there’s one thing you can bet on right now, it would be that the week of April 29th 2011, England will be filled with more glitz and glam than the Oscars. Since declaring the wedding date of William as

Fall Fragrance Report: Gucci Guilty

This is the busiest season for new fragrance releases and this fall, there are some amazing ones. I wanted to share five of my favourites with you this week, each equally gorgeous and perfect for your wedding day.

Guest List Debate

As I mentioned last week in my second blog post, Tyler and I are in the process of deciding how many guests we’d like at our wedding. This should be easy right? (insert crickets chirping) Anyone? We’re having the wedding

Guest Expectations

Q: I am really stuck! My one bridesmaid’s family has been close to my family for years, but due to a number of constraints my fiancé and I have decided only to invite my bridesmaid’s mother. I wanted to invite

Wedding Crashers

Q: My fiancé and I are having our reception at a place that seats a maximum of 100 people. Because of the room capacity, we do not want friends and family to bring a date with them unless it is

A Family Affair

Q: I am planning a ceremony at a chapel that can fit up to 110 guests. However, the reception was going to be reserved for immediate family only. We really cannot afford a big reception because that seems to be

Head Count

Q: My fiancé and I agreed to have a small, intimate wedding—around 80 people. My mother-in-law has informed us that she has 80 people on her invite list alone, and she can’t remove anyone. How do I tell her that

Groom Get-to-its

Q: How can I get my future husband to be more involved without annoying me? How can I get his guest list without pressuring him?

Engagement Party Plans

Q: My fiancé and I would like to keep our ceremony small. However, we’d like to have an engagement party with all of our friends there. Do we have to invite everyone on the engagement party list to the ceremony?

Counting Heads

Q: My daughter has roughly 300 RSVPs for the reception. What should I tell the caterer the head count is? Do I assume some guests will not show up and consequently decrease the head count, or do I assume some