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Transfering wedding guest list into baby shower guest list...
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Hey ladies! My mom is throwing me a baby shower on August 29 which I am so excited about. Since it isn't a surprise I offered to help her with the invitations since she wants to make some really cute computerized ones. But we have a question for you ladies, we are using my wedding guest list as a guide for the baby shower since we have only been married for a little over a year. We aren't sure where to draw the line. We had over 200 people at our wedding, obviously you don't invite the men to the baby shower but do you invite the same people to the baby shower if they came to your wedding? There was no one at my wedding that me or DH don't know well, we made sure of that when doing the wedding guest list. But do you invite your great great aunt to your baby shower or does that just look like you are asking for gifts because I don't want people to think that we are. I just don't want people to be disappointed that they aren't invited either because we do come from close families so word would travel that I had a shower. But we could easily end up with 75-100 people at my shower if we invite everyone, doesn't that seem a little large? I don't know what to do.....HELP!
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Re: Transfering wedding guest list into baby shower guest list...
Do you have anyone else in your family who has recently had a shower? That may be your guide. Otherwise, I think people who you have spoken to since the wedding could be a guide.
Here's my thinking - on my side - mom, aunts, first cousins, grandmother, and a few close girlfriends. Not all friends who were at my wedding, just ones I speak to at least once every other month. On DH's side - (in my case no one, they don't do showers) MIL and any SILs, plus anyone else your MIL wants.
Also, close friends of your mother and MIL if she has attended their daughter's showers.
I hope that this list is somewhat helpful!
Maybe it's just me, but inviting 100 ladies to a shower is not going to be fun or intimate in the way I prefer showers to be. I know that I had less than 30 guests for my last shower, and I barely got to socialize with all of the guests in the few hours everyone was around.
I would limit the guest list to close family/friends (and friends you regularly are in contact with).
I agree with you totally!!! That's why I wasn't sure who to invite. It seems too big for me too. I just wasn't sure where to cut it off.
Cut it off w/ people you see or talk to on a regular basis. if the last time you saw or talked to someone was at your wedding- dont' invite them.
A baby shower is NOT the same as a wedding and the guest list should not be the same. Who did you invite to your wedding showers? That's a better guide (well, unless you also invited everyone to your wedding shower!)
~Benjamin Franklin
DS dx with celiac disease 5/28/10
All I can add is I had a VERY LARGE shower (100+ signed the guest book I'm sure more were there) I really did not enjoy it. I opened gifts for about 2 hours and could not have told you what I got bc i was SO rushed to try to get it done. I also didn't get to talk to my guest and I felt bad about that. Yes, it was nice to know that I had ALL of that support and that people who loved me enough to come and bring me VERY nice gifts. If I had it to do over again I would not have one that big.