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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For the PP who mentions family reunions - you need to schedule, arrange, plan and pay for a family reunion, if that is what you want.  Clearly, this is not what the bride and groom had in mind, and they are absolutely within their right.  Kind of abhorrent how appalled one or two of you are that the bride and groom's day isn't about you and your little one. [/quote]

Oh come on.  Most families are scattered all over the country.  How often do you expect people to take time off of work and fly out to get together?

A wedding isn’t the bride and groom’s “special day,” any more than a funeral is the deceased’s “special day.”  These events are partly about the event and partly family reunion.[/quote]

I love how many people want to impose their ideas of what "a wedding" is supposed to be.

Why should a bridal couple have to foot the bill for the family reunion?  What if a couple wants a small affair that they can afford without going broke, so they have a small wedding with just immediate family and a few friends.

People like you are the ones where the aunt and uncle that the bride hasn't seen since she was 3 or the second cousin that the groom has never met get upset that they weren't invited to come and dine on the bride and groom's dollar so that they can have a family reunion that they don't pay to attend.

If you want a family reunion, host a family reunion and foot the bill yourself.[/quote]

People like you are the reason the bride hasn’t seen the aunt and uncle since she was three. [/quote]

If the only time people see each other is when other people plan for and pay for a big event, then they are not really interested in being close.

My closest aunt, uncle, and cousins lived in Texas and we lived in Indiana growing up. My parents planned for and paid for vacations and holidays together. They maintained relationships; they didn't sit back and expect others to throw a party.[/quote]

100  bucks that when it was their turn to throw a party though, they invited each other and tried to make it work.  No one said “if you don’t like it, decline, don’t come.”  [/quote]

Actually you’re wrong. My mother has five siblings. Three of the married in spouses had jobs with complex schedules, including my surgeon dad. So yeah, they did the best they could, but sometimes a spouse or a kid in swim camp or whomever wasn’t there. But they all maintained relations ships and didn’t rely on weddings as literal meal tickets.[/quote]

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