Dear all,
I need desperate help: we are planning our wedding for late July and it will be a family planned and run wedding with about 200 guests on my family's farm. We have a lot of work to do to prepare and make everything really nice. My fiance's family always plans a yearly 7-10 day vacation with all siblings, parents and kids at their family home (four hours away from the wedding site). Anyway, my fiance is saying that he thinks that there is so much to do for the wedding that he is afraid that we can't pull it off, but then he is saying that the family vacation week can be in the two weeks before the wedding... and that it would be okay for he and I to arrive to finish preparing for the wedding 5 days before! Now there is a lot to do.... we have all of our own tables, chairs, linen, dish ware, vases, and will be doing all of our own flowers, decorations, and have no wedding planner. And there are 92 acres and fields that all have to be cut at a certain time before the wedding.... never mind all the grass all around the house, pond, barns, etc. We also have to buy all of the food. Anyway, my family (and sister's husband) all are pretty upset, saying that there is no way that my fiance and I can go away to his family vacation if it is before the wedding. I agree with them! My brother-in-law knows as he and my sister were married on our farm 7 years ago and it was a disaster. They gave us 6 weeks notice and we pulled it off, but we don't want to have a mess this time. Anyway, anybody out there have any advice or ideas? I am trying to convince my fiance that his family needs to plan their vacation after the wedding.... Anybody out there that planned and ran their own huge wedding on their own property? Anyone who has an idea on all of the things that need to be done? I don't want to plan for what I am sure will be a disaster and a failure if I arrive home 5 days before the wedding. Please help!
Thank you!