When we did it, we had a very tight limit - 50 people: here's an image of most of them (http://www.reaphear.demon.co.uk/Wedding/Pictures/AudienceWaiting.jpg) - and had to be really quite as a result. So a very limited amount of immedaite family only (no cousings, etc. - not that the bellinghwoman actually has any cousins, both parents being only children).
We actually invited something like 60 people, but we sent the first fifty invitations out early, and we enforced a pretty tight RSVP policy, because we had our waiting list of those we would prefer to be there rather than seeing empty seats and plates.
I think it was easier because we had such a tight venue-imposed limit. As it was, it was second time around for both of us, though in Colette's case, she'd only had witnesses at her first, and not actually mentioned it to the parents until just before (her parents) and actually after (her in-laws, who would have wanted to organise the hell out of it).
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Date: 2008-11-15 12:54 pm (UTC)Oh dear.
When we did it, we had a very tight limit - 50 people: here's an image of most of them (http://www.reaphear.demon.co.uk/Wedding/Pictures/AudienceWaiting.jpg) - and had to be really quite as a result. So a very limited amount of immedaite family only (no cousings, etc. - not that the
We actually invited something like 60 people, but we sent the first fifty invitations out early, and we enforced a pretty tight RSVP policy, because we had our waiting list of those we would prefer to be there rather than seeing empty seats and plates.
I think it was easier because we had such a tight venue-imposed limit. As it was, it was second time around for both of us, though in Colette's case, she'd only had witnesses at her first, and not actually mentioned it to the parents until just before (her parents) and actually after (her in-laws, who would have wanted to organise the hell out of it).