Some are former co-workers, a few are close family and friends.
So Ms. McRee, a 22-year-old who lives outside Austin, Texas, scheduled her larger wedding for the following Saturday, Dec. 15, and planned her rehearsal dinner for Dec. 12 and turned it into a small, casual wedding for just close family and friends.
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Another one is that we can also turn off the flow of information as we silence the smartphone and close the iPad to enjoy an evening with our family and close friends.
The next day, we invited her sisters and close family friends, called the doctor, and prepared for her death.
My wife and I really love living in the U.S. and are both very close to our family members and friends.
Many were happy to see the hometown kid from the New York borough of Staten Island starting his NFL career close to his family and friends.
People who are trying to maintain separate work and personal lives may even set this to work after they leave the office, only allowing calls from certain groups (like family and close friends) to ring between 6 p.m. and 8 a.m.
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The idea, Morin says, is that people do not want to push buttons all the time to check-in and may feel comfortable with their close friends and family knowing where they are.
In a world in which an online presence is becoming a standard accompaniment to real life, online communities and presences can quickly go from feeling limited to close friends and family to a place where, should they want to, a foreign government can pop in and say hello.
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"She'll be taking it easy with family and close friends, " says representative Leslie Sloane.
Under the new system, there would be an "unranked list" of family and close friends.
Thankfully, everyone within our immediate family and close circle of friends survived the attack.
His funeral was a private affair attended by some 50 family and close friends.
Under the current system, there is a "ranked list" of family and close friends who can be consulted by clinicians about taking organs.
Facebook added another acquisition to its belt today: Sharegrove, a small service that provides private online spaces where family and close friends can share content in real-time.
This was typically attended by fewer guests -- only family and close friends -- and may be held in area that one of the couple originally hailed from.
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Ms. Powell Jobs, or "Lo" as she is known to family and close friends, grew up in New Jersey and is the daughter of a Marine pilot and a teacher.
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The Royal Navy hosted a birthday party on the HMS President in London for his family, close friends and members of the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force earlier this month.
The private ceremony will take place at Holly Terrace in The Great Mausoleum at Glendale Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California, and "will be limited to family and close friends, " the statement said.
"I would like to express my sympathies and those of the people I represent to not only Mr McFarland's family and close friends but also the local motorbike racing fraternity, a very close knit community, " he said.
About 40 close friends and family - including six original Calendar Girls - attended the ceremony.
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Ruderman ran his Ponzi scheme from 2003 through 2009, targeting family members and close friends.
In a blur of hours, close friends and family came to pay their final respects.
The idea is to create quick communication between close friends and family, both through photos and cross-platform instant messages.
"My thoughts are with Lady Hillary, Sir Edmund's children, wider family, and close friends at this sad time, " Helen Clark said.
Can we not even sit still for a few hours with close friends and family and count our blessings on Thanksgiving day?
While Facebook was the home of close friends and family, Twitter was the real-time broadcasting device for the rest of the world.
Each layer offers a small slice of your personality to each group, leaving only close friends and family members to really understand us.
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While this lets them stay close to friends and family, it also leaves them paying similar prices for food, utilities and other essentials.
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