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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread cracks me up.  We are planning a wedding for our daughter this fall.  My daughter is doing most of the planning, we - her parents - are paying for the wedding. 
We are inviting friends as are the groom's parents.  A wedding is an opportunity for family - and friends - to wish the couple well.  It is a chance for friends to celebrate the union.

Everyone's wedding is different.  For some, it is only for the bride's and groom's friends.  For others, it is a more family celebration.  
OP - your children will make friends in school, in college - if they go, and at work.  If your children are anything like my children, there will be no shortage of guests.  The problem will be deciding who NOT to invite.  [/quote]

This is how I hope my daughter's wedding will be (if she gets married, she's 14).  If she or her fiance feel strongly that it should play out another way, we'll of course do that.  But we have friends (about 15 couples, plus their kids) that have known her since she was born - people who met her before out out-of-town parents did, who came to the hospital when she had surgery at 3, who we've vacationed and celebrated with over the years, who have loved her her entire life.  She calls many of them aunt and uncle, and their kids her cousins; she's closer to many of them than she is to her blood aunts/uncle/cousins.  Some are our friends from high school and college, some are the parents friends that she's made.  They are her village, and in a very real sense, her family.  She cares for them deeply, and it's hard for me to believe that she wouldn't want them there.  But again, she's 14, who knows if she'll even get married, and how she'll feel when she does.  [/quote]

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