<p>I'm trying to compile a list of people to invite to my party, and I find myself faced with a question. Is it completely, unforgivably rude to refuse to return an invitation? The person in question is extremely nice, but I wouldn't call her more than my acquaintance. She invited me to her party six months ago, but I ended up not going because I had a scheduling conflict. I want to keep my invitation list to about 12 people, but I'm currently at 14. Do you think it would be all right for me not to invite her, considering that we haven't even really talked since the start of summer break?</p>
<p>If you’re not friends with her, don’t invite her. </p>
<p>Remember though, not everybody you invite will definitely come.</p>
<p>^^Yeah, I know. That number takes it into account.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t invite her. If you haven’t talked since summer started then you obviously aren’t too good of friends. You can’t always return an invite.</p>
<p>I would say don’t invite her. If she’s not really your friend, do you really care how she feels anyway?</p>
<p>Also, I don’t know if this would help, but was her bday thing the same “type” of event as yours? If she invited you to a party with 50 people, then hell, she may not even expect you to invite her to a thing with a 12 person guest list because, quite frankly, she probably had a small thing in addition to the party and you weren’t invited to that.</p>