Step Four: The Guest List

Now that the whole "OMG I'm engaged!" feeling has kind of worn off, it's time to get down to business.  Joshua and I may have 473 days until our wedding, which seems like a long time, but there is so much to do.  For me, the amount of planning needed for our big day isn't such a big deal, rather it's the fact that I can see it's going to take longer to do some things due to the distance between Joshua and I plus our busy full-time work schedules and his impending school schedule for the spring.  But, this is the reason we've planned everything for so far away so we could have the ability to take our time with some things.

Being the planner that I am, I created a to-do list for the months of November/December:
Step one: Pick date √
Step two: Choose bridal party √
Step three: Choose wedding location √
Step four: Create guest list

Step four has been a topic of great discussion.  Joshua and I come from different sized families/churches which poses the question: Who do we invite?  Joshua and I have had several discussions about what the size our lists should be.  But the biggest discussion has been about getting Joshua to make his list.  However, I'm proud to say that Joshua did sit down the other day and created his list.  The ironic part: my list is larger than his.  Here I had been all concerned about the numbers and that we'd have this HUGE guest list but we're at a good number that includes so many special people who we couldn't imagine not spending our special day with.  Now that we've got the guest list created, the next task is at hand: find a place for a reception.

And that adventure is for another blog :-)

God Bless!