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" Writes Save the Date reader Jill: I started a new job at a small office a few months ago. I adore my new co-workers, and I&amp;#x27;d love to add them to the guest list for my wedding, which is next summer. Here&amp;#x27;s the dilemma: Right now, my guest list has around 100 people on it. I work with 11 women, and I want to invite all of them. Seven of them women are married or have a longtime partner (I haven&amp;#x27;t met any of them) so if I invite plus-ones, I&amp;#x27;m up to 18 people. Also, some of them women have kids, so if I invite them, too, 11 people becomes more like 40 people. I am inviting other guests&amp;#x27; kids, but I&amp;#x27;ve never met my co-workers&amp;#x27; kids&amp;amp;#8212;and there are a LOT of them. On top of that, we have a five-person clerical staff, but I don&amp;#x27;t know any of them well. They work on a rotating schedule so I only see them occasionally and I have almost no interaction with them. If I invite the original 11 women, do I have to invite the clerical staff (and their husbands and kids) too? Like I said, I have almost no interaction with them, but I don&amp;#x27;t want it to be awkward if I see them in the lunch room and my wedding comes up and they realize everyone in the office was invited except them. The size of the venue and budget aren&amp;#x27;t issues. I could accommodate and afford the 50 or so extra guests if necessary, but I feel like it&amp;#x27;s getting a little out of hand. What&amp;#x27;s the protocol?! Here are my thoughts: It&amp;#x27;s incredibly sweet of you to try to make room for everyone, but yes, I agree that would be a little crazy if your 100-person wedding became 150, and you hadn&amp;#x27;t met almost a third of the people on your guest list. If I were in your shoes, I&amp;#x27;d invite the original 11 women and their husbands or longtime partners. You&amp;#x27;re not obligated to invite anyone to your wedding&amp;amp;#8212;especially anyone you haven&amp;#x27;t met&amp;amp;#8212;but weddings tend to be more fun with a date, so as long as you can afford the plus-ones, I&amp;#x27;d let them have &amp;#x27;em. But I don&amp;#x27;t think you need to go so far as to invite their TWENTY or so kids. And I&amp;#x27;m sure they&amp;#x27;ll understand, even if there are other kids running around. As far as the clerical staff goes, sure, there could be an awkward interaction or two. But it sounds like you wouldn&amp;#x27;t expect an invite to any of their weddings, so I really, really don&amp;#x27;t think you need to invite them to yours. Ladies, what do you think? Should Jill just invite the 50-ish extra people to avoid awkwardness? What would you do? And are you inviting co-workers to your wedding? I worked for a company of about 600 when I got married, and I think I only invited two of my co-workers! Have a wedding-y dilemma of your own? E-mail me! Photo: Thinkstock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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