She And Her Husband Recently Chose To Downsize and Have A Micro Wedding, Which Really Upset Her Family
When planning a wedding, it can be difficult to ensure everyone in your family is pleased. Although your wedding day should only be about what you and your partner want, some people feel a lot of pressure from their friends and families to do things a certain way.
One young woman and her husband recently downsized their wedding, and a few extended family members couldn’t attend. Unfortunately, it’s caused a lot of drama within her family.
She’s 21-years-old, and her husband is 22. They went through many ups and downs with planning their recent wedding, as a lot of sudden changes were made.
After getting engaged, she and her husband hoped to marry in May 2023. They booked a venue and started planning a wedding with around 60 guests.
But during Christmas 2022, her parents encouraged them to push the date so they’d be better positioned to help them pay for it.
A few months later, she called her wedding venue and asked if they could reschedule the wedding for June 2024, and they said yes. They contacted their guests to let them know the plans had changed, and everyone seemed content.
However, a few weeks ago, she and her husband started talking about not wanting to wait any longer to get married.
They spontaneously decided they should just elope at a courthouse by themselves and not tell anyone. Of course, they had to have two witnesses, so they asked their two best friends to join them.
She and her husband had no plans to tell family members about their courthouse wedding. They just wanted to get it done and tell everyone they were married afterward.
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However, she needed a copy of her birth certificate to get married, so she told her mom about the courthouse plans.
That’s when her mom came up with the idea to have an extremely small micro wedding. This way, they could get married faster because it required less planning, and they still could have their closest friends and family there.
“It was under 20 people, and the wedding was planned in two weeks,” she said.
Everyone had a great time at their micro-wedding, but drama arose when her extended family learned about it.
She contacted the relatives that were excluded from the tiny wedding to tell them that, once again, plans had changed. Some were okay with it, like her aunt and uncle, while others were very angry, like her mom’s parents.
She and her husband hosted a brunch after the small wedding and invited her grandparents, but they didn’t go. She found out through her mom that they were very hurt about not being at the actual ceremony. Now, her grandparents aren’t being upfront about their feelings with her or her husband.
She’s been feeling guilty about changing her wedding again and causing strain between her mom and her grandparents. Should she feel bad for excluding her family from her small wedding or be confident in her decision?
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