Due to a wave of COVID outbreaks our government has put our city into lockdown, and unfortunately, though our wedding is still 5 months away, our government is quite slow to lift the restrictions it imposes, and we anticipate that our wedding will be subject to a restriction on numbers come December.
We have 153 people on our guest list, and based on what we saw last year, we are estimating that we will either be allowed 80 people (if the vendors and staff are included in final counts) or up to 115 people (if the vendors and staff are not included in our final counts).
I am due to send invitations out next month and am wondering, what is the best approach to take here:
(a) invite all 153 people and 'uninvite' some later if need be depending on restrictions; or
(b) invite a reduced guest list.
I don't want to bite the bullet and act too hastily but I don't know which is the better of the two options, though, ultimately, there is no way we could get our guest list down to 80 (115 is difficult but manageable) and if it came to that, we would cancel in lieu of a very small family only wedding.