“We always ask our couples when they start their guest list, ‘When you walk down the aisle, who do you want to see there? Who would you miss?,’” says Elizabeth Hall, a wedding event planner.

For Rachel Ruetz and Josh Madlung, a Milwaukee couple who tied the knot last October, creating a guest list for their wedding ...

A reader wonders if a bride is expected to explain why certain friends or family were left off the guest list; a mourner ...