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Originally Posted by skyblueheroes
Yep, I know what you mean. We both only have one grandparent alive now, and she didn't come. Neither did any aunties and uncles. To be honest, we have not encountered any ill feeling afterwards.
But as our parents kept telling us............its our day - never forget that. You don't want to compromise your plans just to make someone else happy.
We largely wanted to keep the cost down. The holiday itself was expensive, but at least we saw where the money went. We probably only spent half we would have done here.
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Indeed - try it when you marry an American in the US. That was the proper place for us to get married, in the church her and her family went to in her home town, but in certainly meant less people came from my side of the family.
We did conciously make the date in October, rather than the summer, this made the transatlantic air fares £200-£300 rather than the £700 plus for July to September.
As her family paid for the wedding it meant that my parents helped pay for my sister brother in law etc to get there, some of my cousins also came, supported by a block of frequent flier miles he had accumulated whilst working in London and SanFransisco.
Was a great day and all the brits added extra days to visit NYC and Niagra and other sights.