Hello!
My fiancé and I are getting married at a space that can hold up to 300 guests. We do not plan on having that many guests as we only had around 140 in our initial list.
We’re about to send out save the dates and my mom has about 20 extra people she wants to invite. These are all cousins of hers, co workers, old friends, basically people I have never met or haven’t seen in over 20 years. My sister (MOH) feels she is entitled to invite her best friend and her best friend’s mother and father to my wedding as well (she apparently has verbally invited them). Again, I am not close with these people either.
I feel bad because my parents are paying for the venue expenses (food/drink) but my fiancé and I are paying for the other vendors (dj, florist, photographer, videographer, officiant etc…). I have high anxiety over this because I hate being the center of attention and would LOVE to keep the guest list as low as possible. I also think a wedding is a special day that is to be spent with people who mean a lot to me and my fiancé (not spent with random people who I barely know). Am I over reacting about wanting to tell them they have a limit of people they can invite?
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