Reply #34: How many people actually know 300 people [View All]

well enough to want them to share their wedding day? Many guests at weddings that size are business associates and their dates, distant relatives, and friends of the parents. I'll bet many of the brides and grooms have never even met many of their guests.

This point was driven home to me some years ago when I travelled 3000 miles with my mother to attend the wedding of a cousin on the East coast. It was a huge blow-out. The bride and groom never even came around to greet anybody at the reception. A year later I returned for a bridal shower in honor of another cousin I am much closer to. At that shower I was finally introduced to my cousin's new wife, who had no idea I had been to her wedding. It was embarrassing.

I only have one child, and, when the time comes, she can have any kind of wedding she wants, but I hope she'll keep it small and intimate - a day to share with close friends and family. Anything else is superfluous.