Evening invites/work people

I understand where you are coming from in the same kind of situation, my work invites are the only ones left to do. I am the only the female in our company with 20 men. I have met all there partners/wifes at xmas parties. But as you say I get on with most of them but not all, I don't want to invite one person because we fall out like cat and dog. But I want to invite the others on site. There is 3 people of site I would like invite also. I need to invite my bosses even though I don't think they will come.

So still sitting on this invites at present so will watch this thread with interest

Sorry can not be of any help

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I work in an office with 4 other people & I'm only inviting one of them, she is like a second mum to me & I see her a lot out of work (also she is making my bridesmaid dresses) so I am invitining her to the Wedding.

The other 3 people I work with will not be getting any invites at all.

We are in a similar situation - h2b is a teacher too! he has invited a few of his colleagues to the evening, and invited partners/wives/husbands. he has only invited those he is close to, as he works in a senior school and otherwise it would be tons of people. it comes to about an additional 30 people to the evening. he has invited his subject boss, even though h2b thinks he is a numpty most of the time....

i'm not inviting any work colleagues, but it's because i've done 3 different placements this year, and am not particularly close to anyone at any of those places.

There are over 30 in my team, so I just wrote a communal one out and stood it on a table in the centre office with a reminder e-mail sent out. I get on with most of my team though.

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I'm a teacher as well. Was lucky in a way that the wedding was quite a distance from where I work so didn't really think people would travel that far just for the evening. I get on well with lots of people at work but as work colleagues iyswim, so I just invited my closest friend and her husband (who we see socially anyway) and my LSA and her husband to the whole day and didn't bother inviting anyone else. I don't think anyone was put out.

We already had 180 people there in the evening, couldn't have fitted everyone in and I didn't want to start inviting some people and not others - e.g. I'm closer to more teachers than I am LSAs but can you imagine the divide if I'd asked all the teachers and none of the LSAs?!

I did toy with the idea of just doing a general invite to everyone (would have included partners) and sticking it up in the staffroom but decided against it in the end just because of numbers.

In my department there are about 50 people and I have only invited 3 of them to the evening reception!!! Harsh, moi?!

I have done 2 by themselves as they are really good friends and will come together anyway (and one of their H's is doing our disco) and the other I have done +1. I didn't want to write her H's name as they have been talking about splitting up for a while now.

The other place I work I have invited all of the other staff and their partners as there is only 6 members of staff. I get on well with all of them unlike in my other job!!

HTH.

I invited two of my work friends to the whole day, they've been really great with planning the little details and have been really enthusiastic, then for the evening I've got a couple of girls I gossip with and the consultants...I don't expect they'd come but it would be cool if they did.

I'm kind of in the same situation, I work in a place that has about 30 or so staff members and my H2B works in the same place but for a different company. So I know both groups of people. There are people that I definately want to invite and some I know I don't. I have thought about it a lot and I think I will put an invite on the noticeboard. I would like to think that certain people wouldn't turn up because they don't really know me or talk to me that much. I'm not really worried about partners because I think that most people will come with their work friends.

It is a difficult situation though, someone will always be offended.

I've been trying to decide this as well...I work remotely, theres about 20 on my team, but our reception is 120 miles away and on a sunday so I'm trying to figure out what to do!!!!

Sorry, I'm no help as I'm after the same answer!! x