Preparing for Rejection

Marriage is wonderful, and a wedding should be a joyous process. However, not every part of the preparations is happy or stress free. The most frustrating part (so far) has been creating the invitation list, and choosing who not to invite. With a limitation of about 100 quests at a maximum that our budget can afford, there has had to be a lot of friends that we cannot invited at all. While this ultimately becomes a simple process, I’ve had to learn how to pitch our budget limitations to anyone who asks if they are on the list, as many are not.

The solution I found for my closest friend group was simply a group Facebook post that details some of our plans for the summer, addresses some questions that had been floating around, and then later speaks to the issue of the list itself, and how many people can be on it in the first place. By masking the discussion of our wedding list inside other issues and questions, our prospects of potentially upset friends never saw the presentation coming, as recommended in rule #15.

Finally, you may notice that I’ve accomplished hopefully the same task here with any who read this. I’m talking about sales, and writing my blog post, but at the same time I hopefully can reach out to another group of friends and show them the difficulties of wedding planning.