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Am I Being Unreasonable by inviting my high school teachers to my wedding?

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emlamoore · 30/01/2025 17:11

Hello! I'm 23 years old and have graduated high school almost 5 years ago. I'm getting married later this year and have been wanting to extend an invitation to my high school teachers. I understand this may be weird or inappropriate, so I wanted an outside opinion. My high school was small with my class only containing 55 students, so there was a closer bond between teachers and students. I haven't talked to them but a couple of times since graduation but when I was a student, I was in almost every club that was offered including serving as student body president which allowed me to attend teacher conferences at my school. I say this to say they aren't normal teachers with the average student teacher relationship. One of my friends who's a groomsman has a mother who is a teacher at my old high school that I plan on inviting. But I will say, there are some teachers that I only invite as a courtesy because I don't have as much of a close relationship with them, but the school is so small that it'd be unfair to invite some but not others. So... what do you all think? Would it be weird and unreasonable to invite them to my wedding?

OP posts:
Sixgeese · 31/01/2025 07:59

Some of my old secondary teachers came to my wedding 14 years after I had left the school.

But DH was a teacher and he was working at that school at the time, he started there about 8 years after I left so those teachers were now his work colleagues and friends.

My old school friends found it slightly awkward but they knew in advance.

NowThatYouSayIt · 31/01/2025 08:00

MrsHamlet · 30/01/2025 21:09

I might also point out that I was invited to the christening of the child of a former student. The child is named after me.
Bet people here think that's weird too.

But presumably you had maintained a relationship since that student left school!

OP, are you trying to up your numbers compared to the groom or something?

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