One of the first things you want to do after you get engaged and have a general picture of the way you want your wedding to look and feel is to start working on your guest list. You will most likely have four sets of guest lists: bride's, groom's, bride's family, and groom's family. Have each list organized as follows:
1) Those who must be invited
2) Those who should be invited
3) Those who would be nice to invite
This will make your job of consolidating all the lists into one, and deciding who will be invited, a much easier process. Consider creating a spreadsheet to keep track of your guest list. I recommend creating a one stop list including the following information as individual columns:
Last Name, Salutation, First Names, Children's Names, Address, City, State, Zip Code, Phone Number, Response Received, Number Attending, Beef, Chicken, Fish (or whatever entree choices they chose from, list how many ordered each entree), Gift Received, Thank You Note Written
If you would like to track other information as well, here is the place to do it. This way you can hand your complete list with addresses and appropriate salutations to your calligrapher when it's time to address envelopes. You can even use your summation function to add all the guests and their meal orders. This may seem like a lot of work, but trust me, it will be well worth it!
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