G'morning everyone,
For our wedding, I originally wanted something SMALL and SIMPLE. To be honest, I just wanted to go to Las Vegas, get married in the church I went to when I was out there with school and go to dinner with our families. Nothing super fancy. My fiancé has convinced me I will regret it and now we are literally at 205 people to invite. Besides the number being completely overwhelming a LONG time ago, we decided we just wanted our siblings standing up with us. We literally are SO CLOSE to them and it makes sense. I have 2 brothers that will be on my fiancé's side - along with our "ring security" which includes his two nephews. On my side I'll have my sister and his sister, with his two nieces as our "petal patrol." We loved the idea from the beginning and haven't wavered.
Until my best friend from college seemingly threw a hissy fit about not standing up. She's in Las Vegas, I was her MOH and it wasn't really a great experience in terms of trying to plan everything states away. It was a lot of money too, that I didn't necessarily have. My other best friend lives in North Carolina. We figured it'd be nice to just let them come as guests and not have to worry about having more expenses other than the obvious travel expenses. I'm tired of hearing people say "Oh, I would have thought she'd be in it" when in all honesty, we have grown apart and have just been busy with our own lives. My fiancé is 100% cool with only our family standing up b/c he doesn't want to have to pick and choose certain friends over other ones, and I get it.
Everything made perfect sense until I started listening to other people's opinions.
Help!
~ Allie
