Inspired by the post on MN currently around a person being invited to their wedding without a partner, I thought I’d get Mumsnetters views on going to a wedding by choice without a partner even though they’re invited!
Next July my partner’s cousin is getting married in Spain. We’re both invited but not our kids. Now no issue with the kids not being invited but it does mean we’d have to find childcare for them. We’d also be paying eye watering school holiday prices for flights and accommodation, and then wouldn’t be able to afford a holiday as a family.
Our suggestion is that my DP goes by himself and I stay at home with the kids. He can room share with a couple of mates so it will be cheaper and obviously only then paying the cost of one flight,
We are both equally happy with this decision. I’ve met his cousin twice in all the time we’ve been together (DP has only seen him twice in the same amount of time).
However DP’s parents and siblings think it’s weird that he would go to a wedding without me.
So who is being unreasonable?
YANBU - Stay at home and save the money, you’re not weird
YABU - PILs are right, suck up the cost and stop being a weirdo
(P.S We don’t really care what his parents or other people think, I was just curious for wider views after seeing the other thread tonight!)