Are you inviting work colleagues...

I think I'll stick an invite to the evening up on the noticeboard. I think only the people I actually like will bother to turn up tbh.

Really.. definitely.. no
they dont expect to be invited!!
its customary for work colleagues to chip in for birthday/wedding/baby etc presents.. but you dont have to invite them in return

they're not your friends, you dont hang out with them on a saturday night... so if you invited them they'd feel awkward!!

accept the gift gracefully, and promise them a postcard ?

i would definitely not like to mix work people with family and friends... !!

Yep, they will all be invited to the evening do.

I work in a college so there's lots of staff which obviously i aren't inviting. I'm inviting the 5 people that i work with on a day to day basis as they're in the same department as me, i don't actually think that they will all come though as we don't mix socially outside of work.

I really think it's a case of how friendly/close you are with them. At the moment I work from home part time for a really small company and am looking for a full time job, so my current colleagues won't be invited - I hardly see them! But I'm still in touch with a lot of the girls I used to work with at my previous job, they were all invited to the engagement party so will be invited to the wedding reception too.

Thanks guys, I guess it depends on different working situations. There are only 3 others in the same office as me so I can't really invite some and not others...my OH wants to invite some of his colleagues but his is quite a large company so he can get away with just inviting the people he's closer to.

My 2 bosses and thier partners are invited to the day, along with another guy who I see outside of work and his wife.

In the evening all of the sales team (the guys in my team) and thier partners are invited which is another 10 people.

They will all be getting proper invites sent to thier home addresses.

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I'm not inviting anyone from work, even though I know there will be a gift. Every year we all put £10 into a staff fund and gifts for weddings/babies/retirements are all paid for out of that.

To be honest, there are a couple of people I'd like to invite, but it's the whole politics thing. If I invite some I have to invite others that I don't want. Plus I'm getting married over 200 miles from where we live, so I don't think they'd come anyway.

That's the advantage of working in a different country to the one you're getting married in ? Although it's a disadvantage as well as there are people we'd really like to have there who won't be in the UK for the summer.

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to your wedding?

I work in a small office so it's basically invite everyone or no-one. The thing is my boss does my head in at the best of times id="red">and the thought of him sidling up to me on the dance floor on my wedding day literally makes my skin crawl [xx(]

Only prob is he has already said the company will give me a wedding gift of some money towards the honeymoon and now I feel like a biatch for deciding not to invite any of them! Just wondered if anyone else is having or has had a similar dilemma?

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I had the same problem!! I was going to invite everyone but him, but a colleague left her invite on her desk - so I couldn't not invite him then!!! So I have, but now I have I am kind of regretting it!!! Hopefully there will be enough people that I won't see him!!!

I currently work alone?so have no-one to invite , i only speak to my "colleagues" by phone or text.My previous job i was in for 11yrs , i will be inviting some of those ex-colleagues , if i was still there i would probably sent invites to the ones i worked closely with & also put one up on the notice board

I work for a really small company and there are only 3 of us in the office and accountant who comes in once a month.

I get on really well with my boss and his girlfriend and the other guy in the office to. They will both be invited as well as my boss's partner. We aren't having a separate evening reception, so they will all be invited to the day.

My boss is giving me an extra 2 weeks holiday though for my honeymoon. He said it's not something I'm going to ask for every year so I can have it in addition to my normal holiday entitlement ? I think he's paid for the 3 extra meals with my days off ?

If I hadn't changed jobs then i would only have invited one girl who I worked with (she is a really good friend), but no-one else, as I just didn't like them that much!

We are inviting everyone h2b works with, but he is a pub manager and Saturday's are the busiest day of the week. The owner will not close the pub to let everyone come, so we are going to tell her who we absolutely have to have there (one of the barmen is h2b's godfather) and then first come first served with the holiday for anyone else (but I think only one other person will be allowed the night off!)

I'm only inviting my year group partner, her husband and their daughter to my day do. If I start inviting anyone else it'll get out of control, and she's the one I work most closely with and have the best relationship with. Then I might invite my LSAs to the evening do, although I doubt they'd come cos it's quite a long way away.

I would like to invite all the teaching staff and their partners as we get on well but that would just be too many people. I'll only have a problem if I end up with a different year group partner in September as the wedding's in October.

I invited a couple of work colleagues and H did the same, although the work colleagues he invited have known him since he was a kid.

One of my coleagues and my boss will be invitd to the whole day - my boss has been my close friend for 3 years so there was no question. Everybody else will be invited to the evening x

I have recently changed jobs and will wait until nearer the time to see if i want to invite anyone to the evening do. i was at my last job for 3 years and some of those people i worked with are very close friends to both myself and h2b now, so they will be invited to the whole day. like you said, it just depends on your work circumstances, altho it can be tricky if you want to invite some and not others!!

I think it really depends on how you get on with them socially - do you go out together? I worked in a school when I got married and people didnt think it odd that I didnt invite everyone but asked my close friends from work. In the end we got married abroad so it didnt matter anyway, but I would have been fine asking my actual friends to the wedding or reception without having to ask everyone. There were 2 other weddings in the same month and we all had collections, I didnt get invited to the other weddings and other people did - they werent my close friends so it didnt worry me in the slightest.

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This is the thing, I've even avoided the few work dos we've had as my boss just rubs me up the wrong way! It would be impossible to invite the other two without him knowing- one of the other guys is also his brother in law just to complicate things even more. Maybe it's best to not invite any of them, if my boss was there I would probably just end up telling him what I think of him after a few drinks!

People where I used to work will be invited as I made lots of friends there, current job, I may send out an email a few days before in the hope that they all have plans... Thats if I'm not locked up for pushing my supervisor into the incinerator before then!! He is really winding me up today!!

Very tricky one. H2b is inviting his boss to whole thing, and a lot of colleagues to evening. 2 of my old colleagues are invited to whole thing as we go out alot together. But I keep moving offices (within same company). Had already decided to invite the 4 staff + partners from last office (invited to one colleague's wedding before mine) but now working with more people! Nightmare! Will wait a couple months and invite them then if still in that office.