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Beginner September 2015

Inviting Colleagues

LoweToBe, 18 February, 2015 at 15:25 Posted on Planning 0 8

So me and my OH have hit a dilemma...

We want to invite colleagues to the wedding reception as everyone in the office is like a little family (about 50 people) but there are a handful of people that we dislike/don't want to invite.

We feel like we have to grin and bare it and just invite them out of politeness but we really strongly dislike them.

Is there anyway of not inviting them even though everyone is close/talks?

8 replies

Latest activity by LoweToBe, 25 February, 2015 at 10:55
  • pammy67
    Beginner April 2015
    pammy67 ·
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    Presumably the feelings are mutual so they wouldn't expect an invitation. Simply don't invite them. I haven't been able to invite everyone I'd like due to space restrictions, so there's no way I'd invite anyone I really couldn't stand.

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  • halloweeny
    Beginner October 2013
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    Nah, just invite those you're close to and hang out with! The others wouldn't want to come anyway.

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  • AuntieBJ
    Beginner September 2014
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    Any queries - just cite numbers as your excuse for not inviting them. Does it really matter if they don't like it if you don't invite them? You don't like them anyway, so their opinion shouldn't matter ?

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  • Lui
    Beginner October 2015
    Lui ·
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    H2B has invited 2 that he gets on with while I’ve invited all of mine.

    There are only 8 of us in total in my office so I don’t mind them being there. I would say invite whoever you want to invite as it is your wedding, although I know sometimes it’s easier to invite people you don’t want there.

    In my eyes I see if that if there’s someone I don’t get on with they are evening people only and we have 150 people at night so there’s a high chance I wouldn’t see them, although it may be different if you have a smaller wedding.

    (i wouldn’t obviously only invite them if they are connected to someone I do like i.e. partner ect)

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  • MrsShep
    Beginner September 2014
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    We didn't invite everyone (similar numbers to you) didn't see the point in inviting people we didn't want there! It won't matter, you don't like them anyway!

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  • pink & glitz
    Beginner August 2014
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    I didn't do work colleagues, I thought if I left I wouldn't see them again so I wasent away to spend money on them, invite who you like, don't bother about the ones you dislike x

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  • G
    Beginner April 2015
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    There's about 30 in ours (works out to about 50 with partners) and wev been brutal about it, it's our day and I don't want to spend it with people I don't like/don't like me, I'm not sure if everyone would expect an invite out of politeness but wev just avoided flaunting the wedding talk in front of people and if anyone asks wel just say we have to keep the numbers down, and also were not having seperate evening guests so some people will also need to work so that helps us. Just do whatever you feel comfortable with/will regret the least

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  • L
    Beginner September 2015
    LoweToBe ·
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    Thanks Everyone Smiley smile

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