How Many Guests are Too Many

The day is finally here and you are ready to be married. You look out at two hundred and fifty people and suddenly realize that, while you have always dreamed of having a big beautiful wedding with all your friends and family, more than half of the people milling about, trying to find their seats and getting ready to eat your hard-earned food money are almost complete strangers to you. Now you wonder why in the world you invited so many people to attend when there are only a handful of them with which you truly wanted to share this wonderful experience. What could have possessed you to go to such an extreme and expensive measure? The reasons suddenly elude you and you are overwhelmed with the amount of cash you will now not have with which to start your future.

Do not worry; you have just joined a club that is full of plenty of brides and grooms that felt exactly the same way that you feel right now. Many a couple have sought to fulfill a childhood dream only to realize, often too late, that they really should have recognized that childhood dreams are often unrealistic in the adult world. While you are now stuck with the consequences, there are two things that you can do to make your decision more bearable and keep from beating yourself up over spilled milk. The first of which is the most important of all. Just go with it. Being as you do not have any choice, this is a given. That does not mean that you should not learn from the experience but since you are here and it is your special day to shine, you might as well shine bright.

Thank your lucky stars that you actually have that many people who are willing to attend and realize that you must be truly blessed. When the opportunity presents itself, get acquainted or reacquainted with friends and family that you have lost touch with lately. That is probably the reason they attended anyway. Being invited to your wedding may have been taken as a gesture on your part to reopen lines of communication that were barely alive or had died all together. This is your big day so get out there and have a great time with as many of these near strangers as you can. Pay particular attention to the elderly in the crowd that you either barely remember or do not know at all. This may be the last chance you will ever get to get to know them and this is the perfect opportunity.

The second point in this sad and yet wonderful scenario is to learn from your mistake. However, the lesson is not the one you first thought it would be. The lesson here is that not all childhood dreams are foolish and that sometimes, reaching for those long ago dreams can be the best thing that you can do to touch many people’s hearts and bring families back together.

The wedding favors that they take home, whether they are wine wedding favors or silver wedding favors may become more than just inexpensive trinkets picked up at a wedding. They may just become the bridge between your family and theirs, a link that could open the doors for future generations to build upon and cherish.

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