The List
Rev 1.0

Having gone through many internal revisions, the Guest List has been distributed to the Parental Consortium for comment and changes. Having more office time than me, M sent his sections out last week. Mine went out this morning.

We would prefer the list to be about twenty names shorter, but there's only so much pruning and rationalizing we can do. The Clan(s) are large, but not everyone will come. If everyone on the list makes the parental cut, and actually shows, we'll be at 108 -- two people under the max seating for the dining room.

I briefly considered taking our target number, lessing out the must have friends, and dividing that number of invites between the clans. But that immediately brought to mind the recent cap and trade model proposed for limiting corporate carbon footprints, and I didn't really want our families to get to know each other by bartering seats at our ceremony & reception.

Instead we started asking questions of each other and our families, and put together the all inclusive list of family members. We expect my family to do some pruning, rearranging and substituting of names, and that some of M's may not come.