Hi everyone,
My fiance and I live in Northern Europe but we are having our wedding in my country of origin (a Southern European country). We invited +60 of his relatives and family friends but only 20 can make it to the wedding which is fine as we understand not everyone can afford or wants to travel abroad for someone else's wedding. Some of the people who won't be attending are my fiance's grandparents, cousin or close family friends that we know would have loved to come but simply can't and others are just distant relatives that we barely have a relationship with and rarely talk to outside of Christmas, etc.
These people are not giving us any gifts and only a couple sent a congratulations card, basically I assume they have forgotten that we are getting married at all which I understand and it's fine. Would it be appropriate to send a card with a few photos from the wedding and a message saying "sorry you couldn't make, we missed you at our wedding. if you'd like to see some more photos here's the link to our photographer's website"? We wouldn't be doing this because we expect any gifts in return, we're simply want to say you were important to us enough that we wanted to invite you to our wedding but even though you couldn't make it we still want to share this special moment with you.
My fiance says I need to be very careful with the wording as it could seem that we're bitter about them not attending. Has anyone else done something similar? Any help would be greatly appreciated. TIA
