My FH is inviting everyone who's ever been a good friend to him, even if he hasn't spoken to them in 20 years, and now it looks like he's feeling guilty because he can't invite every single person he's ever met. (We're having a small wedding, both due to our budget and due to the fact that we decided that we wanted a small wedding.) On the other hand, I'm only inviting six friends and their SOs (and three of those are in the wedding party), 'cause if they're not my very closest friends, close enough that I'll be really sad if they're not there, they're not getting invited -- I can live without them being there, it's fine, it's a small wedding.
So now, he has this idea to throw some sort of post-wedding party and invite all of the people who didn't get invited to the wedding.
Does this strike anyone else as a horrible idea? To me, if I was one of those people, I'd get the invite, then notice that all of the bride and groom's closest friends aren't invited, then think "what, is this a consolation prize? I wasn't good enough to come to your wedding, so you're throwing a party out of pity for the rest of us?" It feels insulting to me, but he totally doesn't get it. What do you guys think?
