There are quite a few people that both my mother and future mother-in-law would like to invite to their respective showers for us, whom they know well and would love to come celebrate with us, but whom my fiance and I do not know very well. We were not planning to invite these people to the wedding, and in fact just simply cannot afford to expand our guest list by the 50 or so people they have in mind. The mothers did not say to add these people to the guest list, but are good enough friends with them that they wouuld like them to be invited to the showers. So is it acceptable to invite these people to a wedding shower but not to the wedding?