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Im having a baby shower and I dont know if I should invite my best girlfriends mom's?

I am part of 5 VERY CLOSE girlfriends. We are all friends of 20 years and have done everything together. We all served as bridesmaids in each others wedding, etc. I was the first to get married and did not invite their parents to my wedding because I come from a HUGE family and the venue could only hold so many people. I do wish I included them, but we are past that now (2 years later).. I am 7 months pregnant and my sister wants my invite list for a baby shower. I want to invite my friends mom's because I wasnt able to have them at the wedding. But i've heard that you should invite similarly to your wedding list when it comes to baby showers? I dont want it to look rude if I invite them or that they are only good enough for 1 event and not the other? I certainly dont want it to look like I just want more gifts either, but they have all attended all the other weddings and we see each others parents often. Is it in bad taste to invite them or not invite them?? any suggestions?

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1. I think it's fine to invite them. I am inviting totally different people to my baby shower than I did my wedding shower. Only because, as time passes, your friend and family base changes. I don't associate with all of the same people as I did 3 years ago when I got married. It's perfectly fine and is expected!
2. The classiest thing to do would be to invite them. I don't think it'll bring up any negative feelings about not being invited to your wedding if you do but if you don't it'll hurt their feelings especially since it sounds like it took some time for them to get over not being invited the last important event in your life. The etiquette on inviting the same people to your baby shower that you did to your wedding is to thank them for being in your life through both events but just as you'll probably invite new people you've met after your wedding you can invite people you couldn't have at your wedding as well.
3. Unless you know for sure there was hard feelings towards not being invited to the wedding, then by all means invite them. Baby showers are totally different from weddings. If you know them well enough and are comfortable around them go ahead and invite. The more the merrier I say. Most of who I invited to my baby shower were not present at my wedding and were never invited to it.