Should you be invited to our wedding?

According to my timeline the time to narrow down the guest list is coming up and I am not looking forward to this daunting task. There is a lot of pressure to invite everyone we know to the wedding, especially when half the people who were not going to make the list think it is ok to flat out ask if they are invited! How rude! You'll know if you are invited when you do or do not receive an invitation. I would love to have a 250 person wedding but I also would rather not go bankrupt for this day.

While googling on advice on how to narrow the guest list I came across this quiz on CNN. The following 10 questions are used to trim that guest list and weed out the people you really don't want at your wedding ensureing that the people you do celebrate with are loved ones who are invested in your past, present and future.


1) Name the city I'm living in now (Good one to weed folks out, especially if you have moved a lot. Don't use this if you've lived in the same place for 10 years).

2) Name at least two of my closest friends.

3) Name my current employer and my past employer (Again, if you've remained in the same job for 15 years, this does not apply).

4) Do I have any kids?

5) Do you know the name of my fiancé? Bonus question: Where and when did we meet?

6) Do you know where my parents are and whether they are still alive? (Imagine a friend at your wedding asking how long have your parents been married when they divorced years ago).

7) Name at least two of my hobbies.

8) How old am I? (My favorite is when family friends would query, 'Are you 28 now?" Imagine their surprise when I proclaimed, 'yeah, 10 years ago!')

9) Where did I go to college? (Some people might not remember whether you attended college or even graduated.)

10) Name my last boyfriend/girlfriend before this engagement. Bonus question: if you can name the last two and why we broke up. If you get the bonus question right, that might automatically get you in.


CNN suggests the following to help determine who gets invited:

If you score 50 percent or below, you definitely are not getting invited.

If you score barely over 50 percent, you are on the waiting list. If someone who scored better than you cannot attend, you might get an invitation. This barely acceptable person who might be invited may get you a great gift because of their guilt for scoring so low.

If you score over 60 percent, you get an invitation.

How did you score?

Engagement story

For those of you who haven't yet heard our engagement story (I know there is probably not many of you...) please visit the post on January 1st on EJ's cousin Wayne's bog at http://mamas-fonaciers.blogspot.com/search/label/Sara to hear a comical yet mostly true version of how EJ popped the question!

Welcome

Hello Friends and Family!

Welcome to our wedding blog! Thank you for visiting, we hope that you'll find all the information you need about our wedding here and will enjoy following along with our wedding planning progress. It's really crazy that we have under a year left until our wedding. I've had a long engagement but it still does not seem like enough time to plan! Hopefully if I do not get too busy I can update on planning progress and everyone can follow along if you want. Please check back often as I hope to add new details regularly!