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Annie's got some solid advice on how to manage a guest list that could easily grow to out of control proportions (especially when you want a small wedding). And keep your eyes peeled, because we'll be bringing you the entire scoop on Annie and Kyle's backyard wedding tomorrow! -Megs

Annie, Kyle and guests. Photo by Taymin Kane.

Our biggest wedding planning challenge was the guest list! From the beginning, Kyle and I knew we wanted to have a fairly small wedding. What we didn't know was exactly how difficult that can be to pull off.

When we started making the guest list we realized that we had two options:

Give in and invite everyone we know OR
Invite only immediate family to avoid hurt feelings

Neither of those options represented what we really wanted for our wedding, so we decided to go with a third option…

Tribe member LucyTuppa explains how she was "saved by the book" as it were. Turns out, Ariel knows a thing or two about wedding planning… who woulda' guessed!? -Megs

Tribe member AmandaMan asked for ideas on to make her recently purchased welcome bags look awesome and still be something that people will reuse. I just helped my oldest buddy dress up her plain brown paper bags for her out of town guests, so I'm rife with ideas!

Although this post is going to be pretty location specific, (I'm looking at you Pennsylvania and Michigan!) I figured that OBT member AndreaJ's welcome/OOT bags could be a wealth of inspiration for putting together your own location specific welcome bags. Check 'em out…

So you're trying to keep your wedding small. How do you tell your friends that they don't get to bring a guest?

Tamu wrote a wedding update about her experience with having a child-friendly wedding. Her first-hand experience with a wedding full of kids could help others to be prepared for what to expect when you invite kids to your wedding.

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