wedding stress is setting in....

crunch time is here folks.....3 months away.....

its been a while since i have posted about wedding stuff-mostly bc of the j-o-b situation, which has cramped the wedding budget significantly...we have cut costs sooo incredibly dramatically-in a good way we have found some major scores and deals, but our major stress right now is our guest list. which is reaking all kind of havoc. i have cut and cut and cut and it still isnt 'small' enough. we started with almost 300 (yikes) guests....i have a HUGE family-even just extending to my first cousins its over 120 people-not including any friends or kell's side....due to our budget cuts, we are having to do our dinner to about 150 people. i know its considered 'tacky' or taboo in this day in age to do weddings and not invite people to the dinner and then to the reception...but we dont know how else to do this???? and then there are out of town guests-you cant invite them to the wedding and NOT to the dinner, so its just frustrating.....we are down to about 190 guests but, and im certain that all 190 guests arent going to be able to make it....but do we just send out all dinner invites to 190 guests and 'hope' that we 'get lucky'??? or what??? ive heard of a 'plan b' back up invites for those who cant make it to the dinner and then sending additional invites out to 'reinvite' dinner invites out to those who were going to just be 'reception' invites-but i dont know how to time this or go about doing this....

so blog world, im reaching out to you....if you know how to do this, or have any creative ideas--PLEASE send them my way!! and in a hurry...we have to get our invites printed in the next couple weeks and all that jazz...