Small wedding brides- how to address questions?

"We're keeping the guest list to immediate family and close friends only."

I think it's much easier to field these questions if you have an intimate wedding than if you have a large one. People understand, "We're limiting this to immediate family." It's much harder to say, "We invited 350 people, but you still didn't make the list."

I would just say you are eloping with immediate family!

I agree with Caytlyn. When people that were not invited asked me about the wedding I'd say the same. We were 21 people in total: parents, siblings and their spouses, 3 friends and 1 aunt. I remember one of my cousins asked me to invite her to the wedding soon so that she could find something to wear and I politely told her that we were only going to invite immediate family and she understood.

Girrllll. I was just about to post about this. We are also having a small wedding, same vibe as you, in a year. My fiances brother got married this weekend, I cannot TELL you how many people introduced themselves to me (most after mistaking another bridesmaid for me), then said something like "see you next year for yours, haha!" super casually. We just nodded and said "haha! ok bye!" because it was mostly when people were leaving. So awkward.

If someone asks I would just say "we're having our small, intimate ceremony soon, it's really just our immediate families and a few close friends. we're just simple kind of people! but we'd love to get dinner with you guys soon!" that was sort of my plan if someone had asked, but no one did.
My advice would be to stay out on the dance floor, I think thats how I avoided most questions. My fiance was out there less and he definitely got more questions than I did.