I have searched and scoured the internet for a good answer to this, and I'm not sure I have yet.
My fiancé and I are very casual, laid back people. That being said, we are having a wedding only including our immediate family - parents, siblings, and grandparents. No aunts, uncles, cousins, friends, coworkers, nothing.
I would like to send out an announcement prior to the wedding (along the same lines of a 'save the date') to people that aren't invited but are close family members. In this announcement, I would basically say hey, we're getting married, but you're not invited because the wedding is going to be tiny. Obviously I would word it better than that, but you get the idea.
Anyways, I'm just wondering if this is horribly rude? We won't be including a registry or asking for gifts, it's more of just a heads up that there will be a wedding but they won't be getting an invitation. I've seen people say that they waited to just announce that they had gotten married, or told people in person ahead of time. The thing is, many of my family members don't live nearby and I wouldn't see them prior to us getting married.
If this is a decent idea, how should I word it? I was thinking along the lines of "While we would love to include all of the important people in our lives, only our immediate family will be coming to the wedding."
Thanks in advance!
