We want a small wedding, about 50 people. I do not intend to invite my dad's side of the family:
- By themselves, they would be about 20 people or so.
- I am not close to any of them at all and rarely see them.
- My parents got divorced this year and they were very, very unkind to my mom (and to a lesser extent, myself) during that process
We want a small wedding because we only want to invite people that are meaningful to us, people we truly want to celebrate the breatest commitment of our lives with. I don't want to invite 20 pepole that are not meanignful to me and who will add tension and discord to my wedding.
We are still amost 8 months out so no one has been invited yet, but I'm curious if anyone has helpful tips on how to invite a small number of people without enflaming the masses of pepole who already showed they can be pretty unkind. Helpful catchphrases, polite ways to tell people they aren't invited, anything? I know I'm not the only one that's tried to keep a wedding within a certain size limit, surely.