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By Anne- Kathryn Bultman
Anne@TheColumbiaStar.com

The countdown to the wedding has begun. Boy and Girl are about to spend the next six months trying to figure out when they have a free weekend for all of their parent's friends to throw them parties. Boy and Girl look through the calendar and designate weekends for each of the many showers, parties, and luncheons.

Girl and Boy are getting excited about all of the parties being thrown for them because this is supposed to be the fun part of all of the wedding hoopla.

Soon members of the "party planning committees" will tell Boy and Girl how many people they are allowed to invite to said party. The "party planning committee" will also tell Boy and Girl how many guests their respective parents are allowed to invite. This is necessary so that the guest list mainly consists of Boy and Girl's friends and not just their parents' friends. After all, that is what the wedding guest list is for.

Soon Boy and Girl come up with their lists and decide to invite certain friends to certain parties. Boy and Girl want to make sure everyone they know is invited to something. However, Boy and Girl had no idea their parents wanted to invite everyone they know to each of the parties. The parents want to invite more people then there are invitations. Boy and Girl aren't sure what to do because they are only doing what the "party planning committee" told them to do.

Boy and Girl try to stay calm and simply tell their parents they can only invite their designated number and will have to invite different people to different parties.

Boy and Girl begin to get frustrated because the guest list is supposed to be the least of their worries. The best thing Boy and Girl can do is remind their parents that they have no control over how many people they are allowed to invite. The most important thing about these parties is that Boy and Girl are fortunate that so many people want to throw them.

Boy and Girl remind their parents that the big party is the actual wedding, and they are allowed to invite whomever they want to that...as long as Girl's Dad is okay with that number.