My first marriage was an elopement including immediate family and no friends. Reception was a dinner with no dancing. My fiance has never been married before and wants us to have a traditional wedding. I do too since I missed out on a lot of the fun things by being a young military bride. I have a lot of family (cousins, aunts uncles, etc) like i have 15 first cousins and some of them are married. My fiance, on the other hand doesn't have much family but a lot of friends. I would really like to have a wedding with my immediate family and all of my friends. I dont want to invite some of my extended family and cousins because frankly they annoy me, are rude and i dont like them. We wont be asking for gifts since this is my second marriage but the bottom line is:
Can I get away with not inviting extended family members to my wedding?!
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