Hen do regrets - too sensitive

Hi everyone! I hope your wedding planning is going well. We are getting married end of May and so we are only allowed 30 people and I had to uninvite a few friends to the wedding although they were never formally invited we spoke about it. I was not sure at all if I even wanted a hen do at first because I didn’t want to feel rejected if someone said no but I decided to in the end because I might regret it in future. Out of the 14 invites only 7 could come and I feel totally upset and rejected. Two of my closest friend couldn’t make that dates and the others had really weak reasons. I know not everyone likes these occasions and I suppose if they can’t come to the wedding they may not see the point but I feel like it’s not my fault the pandemic happened and we couldn’t afford to move it. I’m just feeling like I should never have said to do it because I’ve set myself up for feeling awful they said no. Just needed to get this off my chest without sounding like a petulant child to my family. It’s more in insecurities getting the better of me I think. Did anyone have similar experience and still have a great time without close friends there?


P.S those that said yes I will thank for the rest of my life true friends right there x