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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If weddings were one-evening affairs you’d have a lot less heartburn over kids. Plenty of people are willing to leave their kids for an evening but not a weekend.

My aunt shamed us HARD about my cousins wedding (called my mother who was undergoing chemo, called my in laws to ask if they would watch my kid…) we ultimately hired a nanny to travel with us and entertain our kid and her cousins but there was certainly no gracious acceptance of a declined invitation in my case. I think bad behavior is equally distributed across brides/grooms and their guests. [/quote]

Why would your aunt have your in-laws number? The problem seems to be dysfunctional families, not wedding etiquette. [/quote]

Because they had attended a number of events together over the 15 years I’ve been married?

The issue isn’t dysfunction, it’s unrealistic expectations of what a wedding is/means/requires. Weddings being a three day affair is simply not the same ask as the service at 4:30, dinner and dancing at 6:30 weddings my parents loved not taking us to as kids.[/quote]

What type of weddings are you attending?  Most I attend are The Wedding itself, cocktails and hor'derves and then the reception with dinner and dancing.  
If it is close relatives or we are in the wedding party, then there is the rehearsal and rehearsal dinner the night before.  That's it.  Many people now invite many people to the rehearsal dinner the night before as well (I've been to 3 in the last year for family), but not all.  So at most it is a 2 day event, and the day of the wedding we have to ourselves until the 3/4pm wedding.

But what are these 3 day affairs you reference? 
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