#252 You Ask, We Answer - 42

On the last Wednesday of every month, Christy & Michelle answer listener questions live on the show - YAWA! This month we're answering questions about: Destination wedding logistics / Hybrid wedding invitations / Food for a multi-cultural wedding / Surprise pregnancy while wedding planning / who to share wedding excitement with when nobody you're around regularly are invited to the wedding.

Question #1: Voicemail

Couple lives in Hawaii and family lives on the mainland. They have decided to have wedding in Hawaii but they have not resolved the guest list issue. They have a lot of potential guests, large family, etc. There are still some COVID restrictions in place, max 100 people including wedding staff. It’s also later next year, so they might not have the same restrictions. They don’t want to hurt feelings, but make sure people know about the limits. What should they do with Save The Dates? How can we make our guests feel welcomed to the destination?

Question #2:

We have also decided to stream our wedding to include family members we can’t invite to physically come to the wedding. Because of this, we are having 3 types of invitations: 1) physical guest invitation 2) virtual guest invitation 3) hybrid invitation where part of a single household is invited physically and the other is virtually. My question is how to address these hybrid invitations.

Question 3:

My fiancé and I are having our wedding in October 2022 and we’re starting to plan things out and create a budget and look at vendors etc etc. My fiancé, Jonathan, is Mexican and I’m white. I want to provide other options for members of my family who maybe don’t eat pork and are probably expecting other options such as chicken or beef. Our plan for the Mexican food is to buy the carnitas already cooked and then my future MIL would be making all the rice and beans, and we would have a buffet style. What I am wondering is: are we able to do that, but also have a catering company as well to provide more options for my side of the family and other friends of ours who maybe aren’t too keen on Mexican food?

Question # 4: Voicemail

Bride is pregnant and family is saying they need to wed before delivery. But it isn’t what she wants and isn’t sure how to tell them they don’t want a courthouse wedding. Also, she wants to know how to feel like a bride in this season, planning for a baby and not really focusing on the wedding.

Question #5:

Is there an unspoken code to who you can talk to about wedding planning details when you're spending so much time on it and just so excited? Do you have to reciprocate bridal party memberships, and how can you break it to someone if you won't reciprocate, nor likely give an invite to them?

Links We Referenced

zola.com/bigwedding - SAVE50

manlybands.com/bigwedding

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