I thought about posting this with students but I think you ladies might be of better help.
I've been back at college two days and today I bumped into a girl from my high school with whom I used to be close friends. It's a rather long complicated story, but the basic's is that even though we've known each other our whole lives and were in the same circle of friends in high school once we came to University we just went our separate ways as sometimes happens in life.
Now, pretty much everybody know's that my fiance and I are engaged and since she and I had not talked more than "hey" passsing each other crossing campus I had a suspicion that she would bring up the engagement (particularly since I was the single friend in high school who never saw themselves getting married!). I did not bring up anything about the engagement or the very tentative wedding planning that is happening, she did. She said this to me: "Soooo. When is the wedding and when can i expect my invitation?!"
In my head all I could think was "oh gosh this is awkward." I am not planning to invite her nor anyone from that group of friends (we all kind of just went our separate ways, plus even if i wanted to i'm pretty sure my budget won't fit all 10 of them). I didn't know what to say so I said this: "We haven't settled on anything it's so far out yet, plus it's probably going to be really small either way." I was basically trying to divert her thoughts away from her being invited to something else. It worked but only because a minute later her cell phone went off.
I really just need to hear if this was an okay response, I was pretty panicked for a good answer. And I would to love hear thoughts on other ways to handle this situation since I'll either see her again, the other girl from that group of old friends who goes here and I have known my whole life, or some other old friends I don't want to invite or can't due to budget.
Also, thanks for reading this I know it's slightly long-winded but I really need the advice!!