Am I wrong for not including a whole group of friends as bridesmaids?

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I got engaged in November and am getting married in August. It’s a pretty short engagement so I feel like I had to make decisions fairly quickly. I have a group of friends from college, 5 including me. One friend is getting married in May and I am her maid of honor and we are all in her wedding. I asked her to be my maid of honor as neither of us have sisters and I thought it would be nice to be each others in the same year. We have also gotten much closer in the past few years. I asked one of the other girls to be a bridesmaids, I met my fiancé through her and she has always been a good friend to me.
I did not ask the other 2 for several reasons. Main reason being that they can be very judgemental and make rude, snide comments towards me when we’re all together, something I did not want to worry about during the planning process and the morning of the wedding. They have also been complaining about the financial aspect of our other friends wedding.
I went back and forth between whether I should reach out and tell them they aren’t bridesmaids but ultimately decided that was the right thing to do. I called them both last week separately and told them. They said they already knew from other people (which was not my intention, I talked about it with my MOH and asked her not to mention it and I told my other friend when I asked her in December that I didn’t talk to everyone yet and to keep it on the DL).
The 2 friends not included have been ignoring group messages and unshared their locations with me as well as my MOH (who hasn’t done anything to them).
Am I wrong for only including 2 out of the 4? I already have 6 other bridesmaids (4 sister in laws, my cousin and childhood best friend) and I did not want to have 10 total as I feel that is a lot.
I apologized to them for not reaching out sooner, it was a month from when I asked the 2 friends to when I told the other 2 they weren’t in it. I wanted to make sure I handled it correctly but feel like I messed everything up by waiting.
I have been wanting to distance myself from them since I don’t feel appreciated in the friendship but I didn’t want to cause a rift in the friend group. I extended an invite to them for the bachelorette party which they both declined and I understand. I want to reach out to them again to ask to have a conversation in person before our friends bachelorette in March so things are not awkward but I’m not sure if it’s worth it to put myself out there.
Any thoughts or advice would be greatly appreciated!

No, let them go. You don’t need people who make snide remarks about you in your life.

You don’t want to be friends with them and it sounds like they don’t want to be friends with you.

Their behaviour exactly demonstrates why you were right not to choose them.

I wouldn't have asked any college friends in that situation. 8 bridesmaids is crazy!

You are starting a new life with your husband. You don't need nasty women from your previous life . Plus it would be pretty crass to have 8 bridesmaids . I don't know if I would've invited them to the wedding . Nobody wants ill wishers to spoil their day . Tell them to Fuck right Off .

To add on, me and one of the girls not included were very close for years, roommates in college and lived together after college. But had somewhat of a falling out a few years ago which shifted our dynamic. We remained friends but not as close as we used to be. I have never had issues with the other girl but we’ve never been super close. The reason I told them I didn’t include them was because I wanted to keep it simple and on the smaller side, which is true. I felt a deeper conversation would be better in person. They were both very short on the phone and it was clear they did not want to have a conversation about it at the time

I felt 8 was a lot too and that was the max I wanted to go to. My fiancé has 11 groomsman (one is the officiant but still a lot) and I don’t care about it being uneven but felt having 8 made it a little more even than 6

Dear lord that's a lot of bridesmaids! You obviously can't have everyone. They're being ridiculous.

I also knew they were expecting to be asked to be bridesmaid since we are all bridesmaids in our other friends wedding, which I know no one should expect to be in anyone’s wedding. That was part of the reason I felt it was necessary to reach out them. They did get me and my fiancé a combined engagement gift which we appreciated and sent thank you cards for but I don’t think that means I have to include them all in my wedding.

That would be a lot of bridesmaids and a lot of expense. I also am in a group of five friends and felt that it was a bit all or nothing to have them as bridesmaids (being the first one to get married and not having a reason to be closer to one or two as the OP does) and that four was too many. So I opted for two other friends that I was close to individually. The other option would have been to have my cousins but one had a just had a baby and one had a recent and close family bereavement so the timing was not right.

You are perfectly within reason to only have the amount of bridesmaids you want and is appropriate for the venue and budget. The only thing you may have slipped up on was letting the other two know you are not including them as bridesmaids sooner, as they found out elsewhere, which caused ill feeling. It does sound like they are not the nicest people anyway, so you may be relieved that you are not including them in the wedding party!