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[quote=Anonymous]We got invited to my cousin's (10 years younger than me who I know but not close to but whose parents, my aunt and uncle I'm rather close to) wedding over July 4th weekend in SF.  We had already put together plans for that week on vacation with our 2 kids (but it's prob ok to cancel reservations and get our $ back since so early, I have to check).  However, the flight out would cost us min $2400 if we booked it today. On top of that, we'd of course need a hotel room.  It's CA so we'd stay more than a day and it's a Monday wedding so we would prob choose to stay in CA for at least 4-5 days.  While I have a college friend I haven't seen in 10 years and some relatives in the area, none would be able to put us up so it's more $$$ for a place to stay.  It's probably a $4k trip when all is said.  While CA is fun, we had other places we would have preferred to drop that money.  We're spending so much on summer camp, our property tax and fed taxes.  But it is a family wedding..

How bad is it to decline the invite and just say that it's a cost prohibitive trip for us at this time?  I feel bad because part of me wants to go but CA is such a long trip.  Our kids are 5 and 7.   Every time I get invited to a family wedding in CA I've declined (2 cousins beside this one) so there's also that.  There was the pregnancy, the newborn and now cost for this.  But What would you do??

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