Did your parents invite their own friends to your wedding?
posted June 13th, 2016 at 4:56pm in Toddler
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- Yes 6-13-2016 4:56pm
- No 6-13-2016 4:57pm
- Some. 6-13-2016 4:57pm
- No. It was our wedding, not theirs. We invited people we wanted to come. 6-13-2016 4:57pm +2 likes
- did they pay for it? 6-13-2016 5:01pm
- Yes 6-13-2016 4:57pm
- yes. there were maybe 6 people at my wedding i have never met or met once in passing and did not remember. 6-13-2016 4:57pm
- i didn't even invite my parents 6-13-2016 4:57pm -1 dislike
- :( 6-13-2016 4:57pm
- it's not sad! dh and i wanted to get married privately. it was very romantic. 6-13-2016 4:58pm +2 likes, -1 dislike
- :) 6-13-2016 4:58pm
- sad that someone disliked this 6-13-2016 5:00pm
- it's not sad! dh and i wanted to get married privately. it was very romantic. 6-13-2016 4:58pm +2 likes, -1 dislike
- :( 6-13-2016 4:57pm
- Yes but we're Indian and everyone and their mother is invited. I had little control over the guest list. 6-13-2016 4:57pm +2 likes
- yes. it was a small wedding, but their friends were very dear to me, too. i wanted them there. 6-13-2016 4:57pm
- Only those that knew me well. But really it was me that invited them. 6-13-2016 4:57pm
- Family friends. But I knew everyone at my wedding. 6-13-2016 4:57pm +1 like
- Yes, unfortunately 6-13-2016 4:57pm
- Only friends that were important to me growing up, no one I didn't know. I banned them. I paid for my own wedding though. 6-13-2016 4:57pm
- np - i paid for my wedding but if it meant a lot to my mom to invite a few friends i didn't know i was fine with that. 6-13-2016 4:58pm +1 like
- We invited those friends of our parents with whom we were also close. It was out of town for all of them. 6-13-2016 4:58pm
- We knew who our parents best friends were so we invited them. 6-13-2016 4:58pm
- lol of course. That was basically the entire point. Which was fine with me. I like their friends. 6-13-2016 4:58pm
- Sure 6-13-2016 4:58pm
- Yes of course. 6-13-2016 4:58pm
- yes 6-13-2016 4:58pm
- Not unless I approved 6-13-2016 4:58pm
- Some of you are so odd 6-13-2016 4:59pm
- np yeah, how weird to only want people you know and like at your own wedding! 6-13-2016 5:00pm
- NP: A lot of times parents are the hosts, they get some say in inviting their own friends to celebrate with them! 6-13-2016 5:01pm
- i think offering to pay for a wedding is a gift to the couple, it's not becoming a shareholder with voting rights 6-13-2016 5:02pm
- You must not be Jewish, Italian, Greek or Indian. Np 6-13-2016 5:03pm +1 like
- no, i'm not 6-13-2016 5:04pm
- Exactly so you dont come from a culture where it's the norm and welcomed. 6-13-2016 5:04pm
- not sure what your point is. 6-13-2016 5:05pm
- Exactly so you dont come from a culture where it's the norm and welcomed. 6-13-2016 5:04pm
- no, i'm not 6-13-2016 5:04pm
- You must not be Jewish, Italian, Greek or Indian. Np 6-13-2016 5:03pm +1 like
- i think offering to pay for a wedding is a gift to the couple, it's not becoming a shareholder with voting rights 6-13-2016 5:02pm
- But why would parents invite someone otherwise... Just cannot imagine 6-13-2016 5:01pm
- This board makes me feel so functional 6-13-2016 5:01pm
- sometimes parents want to invite people their kids have never met, they want to invite business associates who aren't even friends, etc. 6-13-2016 5:01pm
- I am glad my family isn't like this, how bizarre 6-13-2016 5:03pm
- I am glad I'm not uptight. 6-13-2016 5:04pm
- now it's uptight to want to share your wedding day only with people you've actually met? i feel like i'm in crazytown 6-13-2016 5:04pm
- I am glad I'm not uptight. 6-13-2016 5:04pm
- I am glad my family isn't like this, how bizarre 6-13-2016 5:03pm
- NP: A lot of times parents are the hosts, they get some say in inviting their own friends to celebrate with them! 6-13-2016 5:01pm
- np yeah, how weird to only want people you know and like at your own wedding! 6-13-2016 5:00pm
- Some of you are so odd 6-13-2016 4:59pm
- Yes 6-13-2016 4:59pm
- it was at least 2/3 their friends 6-13-2016 5:00pm
- a bunch, sure. so did my inlaws 6-13-2016 5:01pm
- Yes. But we knew almost all of them 6-13-2016 5:01pm
- No 6-13-2016 5:02pm
- A few. I knew them. Ils have no friends, only relatives 6-13-2016 5:04pm
- We had a tiny wedding and a larger engagement party. They and my ILs invited everyone they wanted to the engagement party, and the wedding was only our friends. It was perfect and...(more) 6-13-2016 5:05pm