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Baby Shower Invitation List?

My sister-in-law has requested a list of people to invite to my baby shower. Some of my dad's cousins I know better than others, but I feel weird inviting them but not the ones I don't know so well. Also, some of them I know one or two siblings but not the third, and I feel weird inviting someone I hardly know, but then, I don't want the one I don't know to feel left out. Also, I would be inviting my great-aunts, but some of them I wouldn't know any of their kids if I saw them on the street, but I don't want them to feel awkward if their kids weren't invited and other cousins are. However, I don't want to seem like I'm fishing for gifts by inviting people I hardly know. I just don't want someone to be offended by not being invited when everyone else is, or being offended by being invited when they don't even know me. I would really like to at least invite the handful that I do know though, because I know they would enjoy coming and celebrating the baby. What do you think I should do?

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1. If they hardly know you then they aren't going to be upset with not being invited... Just invite the people you want to be there!! its a baby shower..not a wedding lol. people won't get upset. ♥
2. You're thinking too much!!! Just invite the people you want to come. If they dont know you they probably wouldnt come if you invited them anyway
3. And that's how pregnant women get that "crazy" label! Ok, calm down and inhale. Exhale. Inhale. Exhale. I understand your plight, especially in today's politically correct world. My advice is that a baby shower is a celebration of impending arrival. I would want my closest and dearest friends to attend, ones that I didn't feel like I had to memorize names and pictures before their arrival. The ones that you have contact with, that you see at family functions (and not like a whole family reunion) those are the ones I would invite. Why should they feel left out if they don't even know you? If there are like four siblings and you are inviting all except one, maybe then I would throw that person in for good measure. It all comes down to what you want. I do not think that anyone would be angry with you if you didn't invite them because they didn't know you. If you decide to invite, no one's going to think that you are fishing for gifts either. It's really your decision. Good luck!