Sorry if this has been asked before....
Is it okay to invite more people to your baby shower than you did for your wedding shower?
Like if I wasn't able to invite them to the wedding because we had to have a limit of how many people we invited, can those ladies be invited to the baby shower?
Since there's not a big even after the baby shower well besides the birth and it's more of a relaxed and fun thing I thought it might be okay... But just wanted some other opinions...
Thanks :
Re: Invite more people?
I had this exact same situation. For my wedding, I had a strict limit to the number of people, so I did not invite my cousin's kids (I say kids, but they are all over 18, some have families of their own) to my wedding and obviously not my wedding shower. I wasn't thrilled, but I wasn't paying for it and that's how the cookie crumbled there.
So for my babyl shower I was really excited that I got to invite them. I have a huge family, I think we invited 65 people and probably around 50 are attending. That does sound a little big, but between my mom's family, my dad's family, my stepmom's family, and my husbands family, it all adds up.
So long story short, yes I invited people that I could not invite to the wedding.
ETA: I had a friend who had a surprise shower with over 200 people! Huge huge family and lots of friends, so it depends on the person really, what's excessive to some is normal for others!
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This. The only bearing wedding shower guest list has on anything is invitations to the wedding; nobody should be invited to a bridal shower that is not invited to the event itself. As long as budget/venue/hostess limitations allow, you can invite anyone to a baby shower with whom you have a close enough relationship. If this were not the case, then you would exclude any friends you may have made after you got married.
Us too...we have a huge family. At birthday parties there's usually 50-60 people so it is the norm for us. So we expect about the same for the shower.
But my mom wants to throw the shower and I live a few hours away now. So she wants to have the shower 'back home'. But she's wondering if we do invite my friends from work, should she just invite them to the one shower which would be a 3 hr drive one way... Or she's wondering if there should be a separate shower where I live now with the co workers?
And yeah I'm keeping it to people I'm more close with because actually just spending the time with them would be okay with me.