An invitation should fit the space and energy you actually have to share.

Invitations that exceed your capacity turn into resentment before the guests arrive. What began as generosity becomes cleaning you did not want to do, food you cannot really afford, and a day of preparation, so by evening you are hosting from a deficit. Guests can feel that, and the warmth that was the point goes missing.

Offer the version you can genuinely manage: four people instead of twelve, an afternoon instead of a dinner, soup and bread instead of courses. Say what it is when you invite, so nobody arrives expecting something else. A small welcome given easily beats a large one given tightly.