My fiance and are deciding on our guest list for our wedding and came to the final number of 425 guests to stay in our budget. My family is extremely large so 215 will be my family and friends,on the other hand his family is not so big and has 82 guests he needs to invite including his friends which leave 128 invites left to stay in budget with a $62 per guest His dad is the Senior Pastor at our church and its the church my fiance grew up in its a pretty nice size congregation (about 700 plus) and as you can imagine everyone wants to be invited but that's not possible I mean the actual ceremony will be open for all to attend being that the ceremony will be at our church but the reception will be limited to invited guests only. My question is how do I convey this without offending anyone? We absolutely would love everyone to be there if it was possible but we simply cant afford it.

BUT IM UNAWARE OF HOW TO STORE THEM, HOW MANY DAYS PRIOR TO THE WEDDING DO THEYKEEP, WHERE CAN I PURCHASE THEM AND HOW EXPENSIVE ARE THEY

Also what should I do to my appearance so that I can get engaged to the right guy by my 25th birthday? I have seen fatter and uglier girls get married young. I wish I was good enough to do the same. I want my first marriage to be my only marriage and for it to last 50+ yrars.