Why is this so hard?! 
We're planning to send our invites in the New Year which will be 4-5 months prior to the wedding, so are currently scrutinising our initially hastily put together guestlist (which has expanded since we first wrote it!).
At the moment, if everyone were to accept, it stands at about 10 people and £1500 over budget. We budgeted for 60 and currently have 70 written down.
Some of these people we get on great with, but don't tend to see outside the context of certain situations. They're friends of friends almost, but all part of the same group. For example we see Couples A, B and C at social events all together reasonably regularly and have known them for years, but wouldn't as a matter of course see Couple C on their own, or converse with them regularly outside of the group. This scenario is repeated a couple of times in the list.
If you had to be firm with your guestlist where did you draw the line?
Obviously we realise that there's likely to be people who can't make it, but with these numbers I don't think we can rely on that being almost 15% of the list so would rather whittle it down first and then add people as extras if possible later (being fully accepting that 'reserve' people may then not wish to come).
Thanks in advance!
B
