My future mother-in-law asked permission to throw our engagement party (since my parents were not going to and we didn't care). We sat down and discussed what we wanted and created a list of guests who we knew would be invited to the wedding. We haven't completed the list 100% yet, so we were careful who we chose to invite. I collected all of the information she wanted to send out the e-vites. When I received mine, I looked at the list and everything had changed except the date of the party. I am a pretty laid back bride-to-be, but she invited guests that weren't on our party list and more importantly some that we weren't planning on inviting to the wedding. Some of the people he couldn't even put a face to the name. So, we are in a bit of a sticky situation now. I feel obligated to invite these distant relatives and neighbors of his parents but that means we will have to cut out some of our close friends in order to stay within our budget. Is there anyway we can get around inviting the ones we weren't panning on having there without creating any major problems? I feel terrible and would obviously like to have everyone there...but weddings cost money and we just aren't in the situation to invite anyone we want.
HELP!!! Any suggestion is welcome