finalizing the guest list

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I am starting to finalize my guest list and let me tell you it is even harder to figure out if we have everyone from the family and making sure we invite people that we know aren't coming but would be upset not to get an invite.  We both have big families so just both the families alone are only around 175 and that's not including the friends we still have to invite.  I'm still trying to look for a caterer so that I have them booked because it seems as though everything goes so fast especially for wedding in the summer or even at all.  I've created my to dolist online as well that was really helpful.  Still looking for dresses. I went shopping a last week found one I like alot but the price is crazy, my mom said you only get married once so you might as well do it all  out.  Still trying to figure out what kind of theme I will have, its crazy but I've been watching platinum weddings to try and get some kind of idea.  For the price everything is really nice but for my budget its not that nice.  We'll see some of my friends are very creative.