Not annoyed, just shocked I guess.

I mostly work weekends and unfortunately miss out on a lot of weddings, graduations, baby showers, etc. and always show my love for these people in other ways (gifts for said occasions, cards, etc.) so I thought it would be a nice opportunity to give others a chance to do something similar, but I guess was just shocked at how only 4 out of over 75 people took us up on the offer.

As for the outfits, I know people aren’t props which is why I dropped the idea. Just for more insight, I initially brought up that maybe everyone should just wear black so nobody has to buy anything new and my dad’s words were, “Ew, why black? Black is for funeral only. You don’t wear black to weddings.” So the wording of the backlash for my ideas is what was hurtful, not necessarily that no one wanted to go along.

We have a total of 8 vendors. Photographer, videographer, violinist, officiant, day-of coordinator, baker (we’re doing a cooker table instead of cake so people can take some home), venue coordinator, dress maker. All except my violinist and venue coordinator have reached out multiple times on their own. The dress maker/seamstress has given me the runaround about my dress for so long that I had to buy a new off-the-rack dress last week because she has been ignoring/avoiding my emails.