I want to preface this in that I know our wedding is much more important to us than it is to anyone else, and that people have their own lives to attend to.
Our wedding is in Sept, after postponing a year due to the pandemic. First, my cousin and MOH called me to tell me she got into med school, which is awesome. However, she doesn't know if she will be able to come to the wedding now and she won't even know until late Aug/Sept! It is far too late to replace her, it messes up the makeup/hair stylist contract as I have to have at least 4 of us, and I won't have time to replace her if she can't come. Then the next day, a flood of declines from my family came in. My Grandma. My brother. Almost all my aunts and uncles and cousins. The only people attending are my parents and one aunt and uncle. Everyone else said no. This has left us scrambling to fill seats as its only a 49 person wedding including the wedding party in the first place and we have to meet food/beverage minimums. I couldn't help it, I cried most of yesterday. I understand people have their reasons, but after 2 years of planning and knowing about the wedding for my whole family to bail? It has left me feeling super unloved and unimportant to my family. I sang for 2 of their weddings, was a flower girl as a kid for another, and feel like no one is at all interested in making one of the biggest days of my life a priority. Family really sucks sometimes.
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