Inviting for the sake of inviting

Thanks ladies! She's also trying to get me to move my date up to May of next year instead of 2018. And I understand why, the waiting is kind of making me crazy already. But FH won't be officially proposing until end of September. That would legitimately only give me 8 months to plan. I'm visiting her for the weekend, but after o leave here I'm going to have to stop talking about wedding planning with her (or even bouncing any kind of wedding related idea)

Confused? So you aren't actually engaged yet? Then how do you have a date?

@Junia, looks like nastassia did the same thing we did. It's a bit backwards. But we bought the ring and have picked a date without the official proposal.

My MIL wanted to invite 100 of their church friends and our venue only held 100. She insisted they wouldn't come; they lived 3.5 hours away, not on Mars. My mother suggested the in-laws send out announcements, to their church friends, after the wedding.

My grandmother wanted me to invite distant relatives, who wouldn't recognize me, if they fell over me. G-mom thinks weddings should be family reunions, on someone else's dime. My parents don't even have a relationship with those people, so they weren't invited. G-mom looked pissy, the whole night at our wedding, and was in the first car that left. Too bad ...

There is no quid-pro-quo with wedding invitations, because everyone's budgets, venues, and guest lists are so different. Just cause your cousins invited you does NOT mean you have to invite them. Stand firm on this. Say, "Mom, DH and I are not going to do that" and change the subject.