We have a limited wedding budget and I want to invite some coworkers, but not all, and I absolutely do not want to invite my boss. How do I handle this?

Beth says:  Lordy, I hated that conversation!  "Well, if we invite this person, then we have to invite that person!"  My first go round, we invited everyone, including my parents' friends that I didn't even know.  The second time, I wanted it to be much more intimate, with only my family and closest friends attending.  Further, we had a minimal budget.  This was challenging for a couple reasons--the first was that I have a large family and there were several that I didn't want to invite, but there is no way to get around that.  The second is that inevitably someone's feelings are going to be hurt, but it is what it is. While it would have been the P.C. thing to do to invite my boss, she wasn't a friend or family and so she didn't make the cut.  I just tried to emphasize constantly that this was a very small wedding and we could only invite a few people.   Just remember this day is about you and your partner--don't get bogged down worrying about other people's happiness to the point that it impacts your own!

Kevin says:  Not many people are in a position to invite everyone to their special events. Understand that you’re under no obligation to invite anyone you don’t want at your event  --- budget constraints or not. What you must not do, however, is make a show of publicly inviting work colleagues --- or even talking about your wedding in the workplace (seriously, you’re there to work, not plan extracurricular activities anyway). You do not distribute invitations at work, for instance. You send out invitations to the work colleagues you’re inviting in the mail, just like the invitations to everyone else.