Couples ‘left in purgatory’ over wedding guest cap

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  1. FFS being allowed to have 100 guests is amazing, much better than having to cancel altogether. I know it’s a difficult situation but be realistic. #scrapthecap my arse

  2. It seems like the logical option would be to cut the child guests.. being that they’re unvaccinated. Then look at the others and see if there’s anyone vulnerable who might no longer want to attend.

    They should be delighted they’re still able to have 100guests.

  3. Definitely not another headline fuelled by the wedding planner org.
    It’s literally just a one day party. Have it with the 100 or move it. You’re not that important.

  4. I was at a wedding with only 40 ppl before most of us were strangers and it was one of the best weddings ever.

  5. because if you don’t have all 125 people at the wedding you aren’t *really* married

  6. Ah would you fuck off.
    Love the comment how everyone is having a quiet Christmas to save themselves for your wedding! 🤣🤣
    Newsflash, nobody gives a fuck about your wedding other than you and maybe your direct family. To everyone else it’s just a pissup that ends up costing them a fortune.

  7. Are people commenting here for real? Are people supposed to be happy they have to uninvite 25 people from their wedding? Covid has turned you all mental lol

  8. I’ve been at 2 different weddings over the past year – 1 with a cap of 35 people, and another more recently with up to 150 people. The wedding with 35 people was a great time, nobody had to worry about getting around talking to everybody, simply because there wasn’t too many people. Everybody was just able to celebrate and enjoy the day for what it is. I was lucky to get into the wedding with 35 people, I was about the 37th person to be invited, but others couldn’t go so I got in and I was greatful for it.

    If people get upset with not being in the 100 to be invited, then they’re just people that don’t really deserve to be there. It does suck not being able to invite everybody you want, but the people that are there are the people you really want there, which makes it better.

  9. Boohoo someone bricks are not happy with their wedding. Purgatory will be a great surprise for them whey they get there some day. Self-absorbed donkies.

  10. I have some sympathy in terms of organising the changes, but a cap of 100 is still pretty high so it’s more than big enough to have everyone you actually want there.

    Anyways, I think you’ll find a few people among 125 who want to avoid large events right now.

  11. I dispise seeing headlines like this.

    We’ve been planning our wedding now for best part of 4 months. Got engaged right before lockdown hit (the very first time).

    And not once have we said we would do 100 guests. Why? Because covid is still going on, more than a year later. It would be senseless and moronic to think a big wedding could happen. We’ve put a cap on it of 35 people. You only legally need a few witnesses and boom, married.

    A wedding is meant to be for the couple, not let’s prove how much we love one another to a few hundred people?

    Plus… You’re saving a small fortune having less people too! You get to spend more time with your guests, you get to enjoy it a lot more, less stress, less meals to plan and cater for etc. Boo frickin hoo you can’t do that many people, it’s almost as if you could have predicted this?!

  12. They should put it out to their guests to decide if they want to go or not. I can guarantee there’ll be plenty who want to sack off the expense of attending a wedding in the week between Christmas and New Year’s. Great time of year for the bride and groom so they use less annual leave for their wedding/honeymoon, shite for everyone else

  13. I know someone who was due to be married on Tuesday and had 121 people invited. They have since uninvited 21 of those people. Problem solved. No purgatory.

  14. Rich people, inconvenienced!!?

    How much money changed hands to get this in the shit papers?

    The author has some fucking cheek putting “Journalist” on her profiles.

  15. Friends of ours are getting married in a couple of months. Who knows how many will be allowed at a wedding then, but given that I have absolutely no interest whatsoever in going anyway (and my other half isn’t too pushed either) that’ll be an easy two that they can cross off their list.

  16. How much would you have to fork out to stay in Adare Manor on NYE? I’d say no one wants to go to their poxy mid covid wedding.

  17. Have a wedding in mid February with about 80 people on the list, not sure what is gonna happen tbh. I’d be delighted if I was in a situation where I could have 100 and un-invite 25

  18. Jeez of all the couples they could have picked for this story they pick a wedding in Adare Manor who are flying a crowd of people over. 100 is plenty for a wedding in covid times tbh.

  19. Purgatory 🙄. Shouldn’t that be limbo… Chances are some people will cancel anyway if they are nervous about being in a large group.

  20. The least amount of English Guests the better. If London goes into lockdown we should stop flights from UK

  21. They have obviously never read Dante’s ‘Inferno’ or they would not be comparing having to reduce their wedding by 20% as purgatory. lol

  22. > However, the couple described it as “illogical” that a limit is applied to the numbers that can attend a wedding reception and not a wedding service for example.

    > “You can have, we think, as many people as you like, pack into a small church for the ceremony, but 20 minutes later you can’t have that same number of people enter a huge ballroom with better ventilation and more social distancing,” Mr Callaghan said.

    Says it all really. Much like the communions and confirmations, they’re all about the hooley, not the ceremony and the sacrament.

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