Do you go to McDonald's? I sometimes do. It's the type of place where I'd expect to get a message from someone asking if I'm free and wanted to pop to McDonald's right now with them.
I've been invited there 6 weeks in advance by a difficult weirdo who I happen to be related to. Would it be rude to delay replying to say yes or no until a couple of days before? It won't make any difference to their day, they're coming to the area for other reasons regardless and will only be squeezing me in at their convenience. They're not desperate to go to McDonald's or anything either, they don't actually like it there.
I'd like to tell them to do one, honestly - we don't get along. But "it's family" and it won't kill me to meet them if I'm able to. Don't really want my life planned around it 6 weeks in advance though!