E-Party invite stress!

So I am having an E-Party on Nov. 10 (which happened to fall exactly 52 weeks b/4 my wedding!!!)

Anyway, it was a last minute dicission, and FH and I have huge families, so we were not going to invite friends. After some thought, we realized that most of our friends will be in our bridal party, so how can we not have them at our e-party!! So, we invited just the friends that will be in our BP (we have not asked them yet). It just so happens that NONE of them have a significate other, so I invited them all solo, with no guest.

So far two have asked me if they can bring someone. Now we hang out with these people all the time and they never ever talk about having a girlfriend, or even bring up that they like someone, so I know for a fact they are just going to bring the 'flavor of the week!' If they were in a serious relationship, than fine, but not just some random girl they met at the bar last week.....

I know this whole invite and guest thing has been discussed b/4 and I am sure people think it is rude of me, but I am sorry. I just want it to be an intimate party of my closest friends and family!!!

Sorry so long, i just needed to vent!!

Thanks for listening.... or shall i say reading....

I just explained to people that our families are large so were trying to keep it small, i think they'll understand

say NO. we had 75 people at our e-party, 65 of which were family. the friends that were invited were lucky to make the cut and knew not to ask if they could bring dates unless they were in serious relationships.

You are not obligated in the least bit to give a reason. Just say no, it's just family and members of BP only. And leave it at that.

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Posted by missliss

You are not obligated in the least bit to give a reason. Just say no, it's just family and members of BP only. And leave it at that.

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I agree! That's what I'm doing. I have this one cousin who always insists on being invited with a guest and bringing one and they are never a serious bf and everyone is always like 'didn't she have a different date at the last party' And I get aggravated that I'm paying for her to bring these strangers to MY parties and she knows ALL of my friends!

I hear you-- we invited friends with dates and now some of them are not dating and we have these RANDOM people that we don't even know in our pictures and their signature is on our sign board!! UGH! Worst is-- that the guy who brought her doesnt want to see any pics that she's in!!!! UGH!! We had a photographer there and have tons of pics and now he's complaining! No one told you to bring a random girl!!!!!

But of course, we shall continue to invite our fickle friends with guests now that we've laid the ground work!