Panicking if my guest list is TOO SMALL :(
Hi everyone! We are a few months away from our wedding and we have nearly everything done and ready, its our dream wedding in our hometown, everything is perfect! We both have very small families (Im an only child, He has one sister, we are only inviting one aunt with her family…), and few but very good shared friends. My fiance has social anxiety, so we only planned on inviting people we both know, and my absolute top priority is for him to be comfortable enough to be his true self during the day.
Everytime I try searching for advice on small weddings, its always like 40 guests minimum… with a couple of cancellations because of health reasons, we are on about 18 if we are lucky.
Now I am, on the other hand, a pretty social person with many good friends who I would love to host at such an important day of my life, but my fiance hasnt met them because that is extremely stressful for him, and so I am not inviting them because this is our wedding day and not my personal party to invite tons of people I know and he doesnt to.
Im just scared that the wedding will be empty, that it will feel lonely, because I feel like everyone else gets to invite all these people that they love to their important day, and I will have just a couple of family members and like two friends. I have been obsessively looking at stock images of 20 person groups of people just to get a sense of what that number of people looks like and its so small :( I never wanted a huge wedding but I am just scared that it will not feel celebratory enough, or loud enough, or just fun enough in general :(
Do you guys have any experience with weddings this small?
TLDR: 18 person wedding because of small families and fiances social anxiety. Is it too small to feel like a fun celebration?