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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Could’ve seen my own SIL posting the same thing 20 years ago.

After so much pushback from DH’s side, DH & I ended up just eloping and throwing a party after. We had our reasons for not wanting a big wedding, and don’t regret it at all. Finances at the time, life transition stage we were in, some family issues etc.

Oddly enough, one of his siblings ended up having a destination wedding several years later and go figure- they all attended. But would not for ours. 🤷‍♀️ and yes DH went (I did not, had a newborn at the time)

We live across the country from most of them, and maintain a decent relationship with the family. But we don’t go out of our way to fly in to attend everything either. (And we did not initially choose to move away either…military)

It all worked out, but their resistance started things off on the wrong foot. Since they didn’t accommodate us, we feel less obligated to accommodate in return and have missed many of their events. Usually we just do a longer visit (10 days) to them in the summer & that is it.

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To add: the destination we wanted was in Florida and was related to where we temporarily lived at the time. We weren’t asking people to fly to Europe or anything like that. [/quote]

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