Okay, so my husband and I decided to have a small wedding (Our parents, our siblings, significant others of siblings, my Aunt and her daughter, and his Uncle and Aunt-who did not show anyway- at the ceremony which we had at the Courthouse. Then for the "reception" we just did a celebration dinner at a hotel. We wanted to keep it very small. To the dinner WE invited our parents, siblings & significant others, my close aunt and her kids, his close aunt and uncle and their kids, 2 of my closest cousins growing up-1 brought his wife and kid, and my hubby's best friend. Thats all we wanted to being with. Then my mom guilted me into inviting her best friend and her son. Then she says I need to send invitations to my 2 aunts and grandparents who live out of state, "they won't come anyway" she says. Well, my grandparents wound up flying in for it-which was fine with me though. But, then she also guilts me into inviting my great grandma (my grandpas mom). And also says I should invite my great grandma (my grandmas mom) "even though she wont show up." Well im not very close with either of my great grandma's. But my grandpa's mom is very old and "gets left out of a lot" so I did send her an invite and she showed up-which was also fine. But I did not send an invite to the other great grama, and now my grandma is mad and says she doesnt want her seeing pictures of my other great grama there. Well there are plenty of pics circulating social media already. Also some people on my dads side are mad that they weren't invited or at least notified. Old friends are offended they werent notified. I feel like everyone I know (who wasn't there) is mad. Like I said, I wanted it to remain small, and did not tell anyone about it because I was trying to avoid anyone having hurt feelings knowing theyre not invited. Was this wrong of me? I thought everything was perfect and now this is bumming me out and taking away the post wedding butterflies. I honestly am starting to feel like we should have just eloped (that was our original idea, but we wanted to at least include CLOSE family). Has anyone else had this problem? How did you handle it? What do I even say to people? I've mad a post on FB explaining why we did what we did, but obviously ppl are still pissed.
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