Wedding Forum - Is it Embaressing???...

Why would it be embarrassing? It your day and if u would rather have all you family there and no friends then so be it! I will only have 2 friends at my wedding as the rest is all family. Invite all your friends to the evening do I'm sure they will understand.
A lot of people just like the big party any way lol.
Oh and just a thought, maby you could cut the cake later when your friends arrive at the evening or do you first dance when every one is there. That way you could still have your friends involved in some important parts of the day :).

That seems fine, not embarrassing at all. If you both want your whole families at the wedding breakfast then that's fine.

We are having 100 for the day and that is very tight to get as we have loads we want there . The only friends we are having is best man and MOH and my ushermaid while other friends will make up the extra 100 guests for evening :)

Not at all, there are lots of couples who do this xx

not embarasing, but you should weigh up how much your friends mean to you over the family, i personally am not inviting several memebers of my family to the day as they just don't make any effort eht rest of the time so i refuse to pay for them to eat and have a good day and pretend everything alright between us

Our day guests are just close family all 25 of them ( small group compared to most). Then we too are inviting friends for the evening reception and then its only a guest list of 60.

Thanks Ladies all your comments have been really helpful and now I feel better about the situation xx

I decided I always wanted my two closest friends as bridesmaids who are in fact also my sisters, made sense to me. Having such a large family can only mean friends will be invited on the evening. x

I don't think it would be embarrassing at all, at the end of the day it is who you want to share your special day with and if that doesn't involve your friends, or can't involve your friends then they should accept that. For our wedding we will mostly be having family. Our guest list totals roughly about 70 and that mostly includes family, with three of my friends and a plus one on top, and my h2b's best friend who is also our best woman plus whoever she wants to bring with her. That is all the friends that we will be having and I don't find it strange or embarrassing at all. Partly because I don't care what people think about my friendships, I have gone through a lot with so called friends so I now literally only have about three friends which are the ones I am going to invite. As for my h2b he feels like he couldn't spend our special day with any of his friends as it would be awkward and a little embarrassing if they were there. In all, it comes down to what you want and what you can afford. If people can't see that and make a big fuss out of whether they are invited or not, then just ignore them and leave them to stew. They will eventually come round to your side of thinking, so try not to worry about it :) x

no i have exactly the same thing all my friends understand and think its quite nice! ITs ur day don't be embarrassed about anything

not at all hun do whatever you feel is rights xxx

I don't think it is at all. It's not like they are missing out as you will be inviting them to the evening, but they must understand the reception is family only.

Where are you getting married? If somewhere big like a church they could always come along, see the wedding then come to the evening.

I was limited to 90 and as the evening was both our evening and main reception we had all we wanted there, but had to stop some bringing kids.