I've never been to ANY wedding showers in my life other than my own, so I'm kind of bumbling through this wedding showers thing in the dark.
Wedding is at the end of May. Last month, my bridesmaids threw us an awesome co-ed wedding shower. One of my girls even flew out from across the country to do it, I was so flattered.
His parents live 3 hours away in LA, mine live about 14 hours away with no direct/cheap flights. His mom wants to have her friend, that I've never met, throw me a wedding shower in LA in early May. Future MIL showed me the guest list she's come up with so far. The guest list is future MIL's female relatives and friends, some that I know, some that I don't.
Future MIL emailed me and asked who else I want to invite. Her friend said she is really looking forward to meeting my friends and family. I'm just not sure how to approach this. I don't feel right asking my mom and other female family members to buy a $400 plane ticket, rent a car and hotel to come to this shower when they'll be doing the same thing in less than a month. Likewise, if I invited my local friends, I think they would have to get a hotel for the night since it's 3 hours away (I will stay at his mom's house but there's not a ton of space).
What would you do?? I'm leaning towards just inviting one or two of my closest friends ... even that I feel kind of weird about doing.