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[quote=Anonymous]DH is throwing me a 40th birthday dinner/party and the place we are doing it has a maximum number of guests/strict capacity. We didn’t think it would be an issue when we booked it since we aren’t trying to have a blowout party, and I wanted to keep it on the smaller side and invite closer friends for cost purposes.

I put together a list of the people I want to attend, and included my closest friend from college who lives an hour away. I did not include my two other closest friends from college because they are a 3.5 hour flight away and in reality while we still text regularly, we have grown apart and only see each other every other year at most. I really didn’t think twice about it until I was talking to my closer college friend who assumed I was inviting the other two, and was surprised when I said no. She thinks they will be really offended if I don’t invite them, especially if I am just inviting the closer college friend vs all 3.

If space wasn’t an issue I would happily invite them, but if I do it means I need to cut 4 others from the invite list to make space (husbands are invited too).

I am really torn on what to do - I know my preference is to not invite them so I can keep the people I am closer to at this point in my life on the list, but I also don’t want to offend them or end our friendship over this.

How would you handle? And no, planning something different with just my college friends is likely not an option.
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