Hello! I have been engaged since 2020 and am having some difficult moments when it comes to the guest list. Obviously, we have only made a rough draft of the guest list with the MUST HAVES like family and our closest friends...
In the beginning of our engagement though, the excitement was on and even though we knew we would be having a longer (although now its longer than planned...) engagement, it was hard not to say, "of course you are!!" to friends asking if they were going to be part of the festivities.
Our wedding is planned for October of 2023 (yay!), but that means this year we can start really thinking about sending STDs, planning maybe a belated engagement party and figuring out who to invite to showers, etc. With that being said...
How do I handle the future issues of not inviting people who we may have told (albeit in 2020) otherwise? Especially people we just don't feel close to anymore (there's one girl who asked me about being a bridesmaid and we haven't spoken since January of last year!!!). We have also found our venue and just wont have the space to invite anyone we arent 100% about (we barely have any plus ones even...)
I know I may be stressing from my own concern of other people's expectations, but I would love to hear from other people with long engagements and how they may have dealt with similar situations. Even shorter engagements! Anything would help me, should I let these friends know that our priorities have changed or just let well enough lie? We wont be hosting any wedding related events until probably October of this year.
