Remember -- your total number of guests will have a major impact on the money you spend.

Whether you invite 25 people or 250, expect to review your guest list
several times. Ask your family for help. They'll appreciate being included and you'll save yourself some valuable time.

   • Estimate your total number of guests
   • Get key family members to make lists, in order of importance, of    everyone they'd like to attend
   • Compare the lists and cross off the duplicates
   • Add up what's left and compare that total to your original estimate
   • If there are too many names, figure out how many have to go
   • Instruct each family member who made a list edit out a certain    number of names (from the bottom up)