Which List Are You On?

Weddings are not only a test of patience and stress-management, they are also an opportune time to take inventory of friends and family. This seemingly simple task takes on a life of its own when other factors come into play such as: family conflicts (who's fighting with who now?), extended family (just how far do we extend it?), coworkers (since they have to listen to you talk about your wedding), 'new' friends (so what if we just met him/her?), and that group of people you're just not sure where you stand with.

After all those people are consolidated on a list, it gets circulated to the parents who add another set of folks. Then as time passes, more friends are made and more names are added. And so the story goes. Now the list is at a whopping... 355. That's the population of a small town. We've only budgeted for 200 so how do we cut 45% of our guests?

Pick fights with people and hope others don't show up! Duh. (Just kidding.) We developed an intensely competitive ranking system of As, Bs and Cs. Now don't you wish you knew which one you belonged to? The list is constantly changing so feel free to send us presents to win our favor and work your way up the rankings. Or you can just click on ads. I guess that works too.

Now besides the A-B-Cs, I also created additional fields for each name because contact information just wasn't enough for me -- Category (Family, Friend), Sub-category (Buenviaje, Tinio, Nazario, New York, California, etc.), E/J/B (Eileens, Jeremys, Both), S/F/C (Single, Family, Couple), Member (numbering system to group families and couples together) and a 'Likely to Come' field (to give us a realistic headcount). I wish I could show you how awesome my pivot table is but then it would give away our list. And for now, you'll just have to wait and see which one you're on.