On Your Mark, Get Set, Go!

So the race to the altar has begun in earnest. Sure, you could say it began the minute Kyle slipped the ring on my finger and you would be right. You could also say it began the first time I dressed up in a pillowcase dress and napkin veil as a little girl. Or even the first time I came across something wedding related and saved it to my computer in college.

But now, I have the man, I have the ring, and tonight Kyle and I started on a plan. While we sat down to dinner, we took the time to come up with a tentative guest list. Obviously it's not final yet, but I say tentative because as of this moment there are 243 people on that list and we are still waiting on lists from our parents. I would say there will be a pretty big overlap between our current list and those of our parents, so hopefully there won't be too many more additions. Once we have those additions, we're really going to have to do some slicing and dicing to get to a realistic number.

It's so hard because out of those 243, 80 alone are family. Then we have family friends, our friends, and co-workers/friends. In a perfect world, food would be dirt cheap and we could invite everybody our hearts desire, but the real world is so much harsher. I'm sure that no matter who we cut or why we cut them, people's feelings are going to get hurt and that hurts me. My only hope is that people understand where we're coming from...*sigh*

At least we know that some of the people we have to invite have a 99.9% likelihood of not coming due to distance, age, etc. It sounds tacky and rude, but thankfully it will make our job a little bit easier.

I'll keep you updated on what the final headcount ends up being - both before and after our cut(s).

We've also had thoughts about other aspects of the whole shebang, but I'll leave those for another post...After all, I can't use up all my topics in one go!