My fiance and I got engaged last September. Since then, we've received SO many well wishes and congratulations from our family and friends which was amazing and we're so glad they're excited and supportive. We originally planned for a June 2021 wedding and planned to invite about 100 guests, give or take. A lot of them have reached out asking "when's the wedding!" and we've told them we're working on it, sometime next summer, etc....some people we got addresses from during our conversations to plan for save the dates. We planned to send out the save the dates this summer since it would be a destination for 90% of them.
However, we've recently decided to have a very small garden ceremony with our immediate family and 4 best friends. Planning a big wedding has been so stressful and we came to feel as though we were planning it for everyone else and forgetting about ourselves and what we truly wanted out of this experience.
Although I'm really excited about our decision, I have so much anxiety over it because I feel like we hinted to a lot of people that we were having a big wedding. Not on purpose obviously, because it really was the plan, but I feel like some people's feelings might be hurt if they found out we got married and didn't say anything to them.
I'm hoping there are other brides that have experienced this feeling and can give me some advice on how to go about things. Do we just have the ceremony and not say anything? Should we call at least the ones we speak to often and tell them we've changed our minds? (We've been in COVID quarantine for over 2 weeks now so I just think I've had too much time on my hands to drive myself crazy over this lol)
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