My mother said:

The love hate of saying we have limited space! Love that we have an easy excuse to say no! As much as I’d love to invite the world for courtesy I’m glad I can’t!

Agreed with PP! Even the bridal shower, my FMIL wants me to invited Every. single. Female. Invited to the wedding! That’s more than half of the wedding! I don’t think so! Also she wants me to I vote FH’s great cousin twice removed’s girlfriend that we’ve never met and they’ve only been dating two months. “I would love everyone to come, but we also want to keep it an intimate affair with close family and a few friends” is my go to

I really don't understand, does everyone just have much much larger families than us?? I'd have to invite all our coworkers to get even 150 in the room. 🙈🙈 It must be nice in some ways to have that much support from a large family.

View Quoted Comment I am an only child of 2 only children... but my grandparents have tons of brothers and sisters and we are close to several of my great aunts, uncles and second cousins due to them being my age.

View Quoted Comment That's nice you're close! I think it's mostly because the extended family got spread out so we didn't interact much. Of course there's the downsides of having to invite everybody in a large family, but for me I don't have very many people I even *can* invite and that's also not nice. I'm a little worried