jerseygal
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- Jan 1, 2008
This is the most likely place to post, although our DS and soon to be DIL, August, YAY, SO SO EXCITED are not getting married at Disney.
They have had a wonderful two year engagement. At first, the wedding seemed SO FAR away, but in retrospect SO HAPPY that we all had 2 years to plan and take things slowly. Only one milestone to go,DIL bachelorette weekend in July. Shower was beautiful and DS just returned from a fabulous bachelor weekend.
Biggest stresser for us has been, handling close relatives who have VERY YOUNG children.
Youngest guest is 10 which was fine for our son and DIL to be, but we have a close relative who has 5 young children under 10(including a newborn, a week ago). It is financially prohibitive, they struggle financially and in our opinion, not smart to travel with a newborn and their 4 young sons to this wedding, which will be a destination wedding, Friday through Sunday. She seemed "put off" when she found out that our son and DIL were not keen on inviting very young children to the wedding PLUS the bride and groom thought it was ridiculous for the grooms cousin, DH and 5 very young children to attend this wedding weekend, which would involve 2 nights of lodging. I personally also thought it was RIDICULOUS.
Anyway, we come to find out now, 8 weeks before wedding that bride's cousin, also has 2 young children, 3 and 1 and now want to bring the kids and the bride wasn't keen on it, but is permitting the 2 kids to come.So NOW, I have always considered myself to be a very fair person, when I discussed with son, groom agrees that I should go back to niece and communicate that brides cousin is bringing the 3 and 1 year old. To give you background, the majority of the guests at this wedding will be son, 31 and DIL, 29 friends, young millennials who are quite successful professionally who enjoy "having a good time on weekends".
This will be an open bar event with what I think will be quite a lot of drinking. In our opinion, definitely not the setting for very young kids. It is a very lovely elegant venue, just not the setting for young kids under 10.
Out of fairness, I will communicate the facts that brides cousin is now bringing 2 young kids, but certainly hope for the sake of the new baby and very young children, she decides that "it just isn't the appropriate setting or time in her family's life" to attend this wedding. Other than that, just cannot wait for this wedding and SO HAPPY that we had 2 years to plan.
GOOD LUCK to all those planning weddings; it is so exciting!Hope that you have very little stress!
They have had a wonderful two year engagement. At first, the wedding seemed SO FAR away, but in retrospect SO HAPPY that we all had 2 years to plan and take things slowly. Only one milestone to go,DIL bachelorette weekend in July. Shower was beautiful and DS just returned from a fabulous bachelor weekend.
Biggest stresser for us has been, handling close relatives who have VERY YOUNG children.
Youngest guest is 10 which was fine for our son and DIL to be, but we have a close relative who has 5 young children under 10(including a newborn, a week ago). It is financially prohibitive, they struggle financially and in our opinion, not smart to travel with a newborn and their 4 young sons to this wedding, which will be a destination wedding, Friday through Sunday. She seemed "put off" when she found out that our son and DIL were not keen on inviting very young children to the wedding PLUS the bride and groom thought it was ridiculous for the grooms cousin, DH and 5 very young children to attend this wedding weekend, which would involve 2 nights of lodging. I personally also thought it was RIDICULOUS.
Anyway, we come to find out now, 8 weeks before wedding that bride's cousin, also has 2 young children, 3 and 1 and now want to bring the kids and the bride wasn't keen on it, but is permitting the 2 kids to come.So NOW, I have always considered myself to be a very fair person, when I discussed with son, groom agrees that I should go back to niece and communicate that brides cousin is bringing the 3 and 1 year old. To give you background, the majority of the guests at this wedding will be son, 31 and DIL, 29 friends, young millennials who are quite successful professionally who enjoy "having a good time on weekends".
This will be an open bar event with what I think will be quite a lot of drinking. In our opinion, definitely not the setting for very young kids. It is a very lovely elegant venue, just not the setting for young kids under 10.
Out of fairness, I will communicate the facts that brides cousin is now bringing 2 young kids, but certainly hope for the sake of the new baby and very young children, she decides that "it just isn't the appropriate setting or time in her family's life" to attend this wedding. Other than that, just cannot wait for this wedding and SO HAPPY that we had 2 years to plan.
GOOD LUCK to all those planning weddings; it is so exciting!Hope that you have very little stress!
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