Hey!
I am marrying my girlfriend in june and I invited a few friends of mine to my wedding.
My partner (female) has about 6 close friends and we wanted to stay around 50 people with family and friends for our wedding.
The problem I have is that I had to cut out a few people that I know but have nothing to do with since a few years. I feel kind of bad, because 2 girls in my friend circle are close with my best friends and I like them as friends to talk to but personally I wouldn’t have anything to do with them without my friends.
It’s a weird situation, but I didn’t invite them because my partner and I wanted to keep it at the limit of 50 people with family and friends.
I feel bad. Today I was at a party and I couldn’t talk about the wedding because 7 friends that were invited were there and the other two who werent invited would be left out so I avoided it and was happy nobody talked about the wedding invitations. I think the other two know they aren’t invited even though I enjoy talking with them when we go out…
I hate weddings…
Having a hard limit on the number of people you can invite and needing to leave people out, even people you would very much like to invite, is an extremely common problem when it comes to wedding planning. As everyone else has said, don’t sweat it, you’re not doing anything wrong. Just be tactful about it if or when the conversation comes up and explain that it’s a small wedding and you had to make tough decisions.
Edit: Also, best wishes to you both. Wedding planning is stressful, but try not to get overly bogged down by that and enjoy it as much as you can.