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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So I have a question....maybe too early and silly to think about it now as my children are still young. When I grew up, my parents attended a church and this was their social group. When I got married they invited our extended family plus church friends to the wedding. We had less than 100 but still a lot of guest.

Fast forward now and we don't attend church regularly and barely have a social group. Long story short, who are we inviting to this future theoretical wedding? As our kids age, do you think we will get the opportunity to do more social things and meet more people well enough to invite them to our kids wedding? [/quote]

So, my 20 something dd is getting married next year. We live states away and the church we went to closed. We have a new one but she has hers where she is. We are planning now (of course) and her early guest list has her/fiance' friends, and our (and his) closest family. Not sure how far into extended family we will go. Other than my family members, no one coming is anyone we really knew when our kids were young. People move and scatter, things change.

I'm paying for most of it, but I am firm about it being what THEY want-I had almost no say over my wedding and I resent that. My dd is running this show, although I am helping plan in the ways she has asked me to. DD has a fun, young, eclectic style and this wedding is going to be awesome![/quote]

Sounds like you are doing a good job.  Did you set a budget and she works from within that to plan and allocate money to where she wants.  Or does she have open-ended spending privileges? [/quote]

We talked at first about her vision for her wedding. Then I told her what I could afford. She and fiance did some research, and decided to add about 25% above that. This all should pretty much cover everything. She will be deciding on the Big Stuff, like the food. I handle the boring stuff like porta potties LOL (it's outside). I told her, tell me where to send the checks! Haha. It's going to be nice and fun, but defenitely not formal or fancy. If she wanted formal, she could do it, but it would probably be much smaller, but doable. [/quote]

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