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[quote=Anonymous]Do you attend all family weddings?  How do you decide in your family what to do/not to do?  My DH has a large extended family and the younger cousins are starting to get married.  So far, we know that we have a wedding this fall and one this spring.  So we aren't talking about lots and lots of weekends, but I see them on the horizon.  Pre-kids it was easy to run away for the weekend, but now it is harder (and, honestly, less desirable) for us to leave our kids and dogs to go to a wedding (the kids are rarely invited to weddings; the family is just too large).  With travel, hotel, and babysitting costs, I'm easily at $1000 per wedding before we even buy a gift.  If we have two-three a year, this isn't an insignificant expense.

So my question to you all is:  when do you draw the line?  Do you make all weddings a priority?  Go to some, not others?  Honestly, my DH hasn't spoken to either of the cousins getting married since the last wedding.

And do you put the weddings in front of other immediate family plans?  For example, this year we have a big anniversary.  We had to postpone our planned getaway due to a work conflict, and we just learned that the wedding is the same weekend as our anniversary weekend.  My DH feels like we should move our anniversary plans yet another two weeks later, but we really can't afford to go away two weekends in the same month, nor do I want to do so.  It has to be an either/or this year.

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