Our families are spread across the country. If we have a wedding, everyone would be spending money to fly in. It is hard to invite people from out of state and just host at a place like a pavilion in a public park. People will be insulted. If we don’t have a wedding, people will be hurt that we took a special moment away from them. I think the expectations of friends and families these days are unreasonable. It is as though we owe everyone a party that will clean out our savings or put us in debt that will take years to pay off.
In the old days, people got married in a church and everyone in the family lived in the same small town would show up to the church. There were no receptions.
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