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To marry in the same year as my sister?

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fifi669 · 20/10/2014 17:32

My sister is getting married July next year. The venue is booked etc.

My partner and I have discussed marriage at length and next year would be ideal for us. We plan to ttc our next child from the summer so the year after would be out due to hopefully a pregnancy/newborn.

My sister originally said its fine but has now said she's worried that family from Ireland will only go to one of they're close together, also that my dad might pay less towards her wedding of I were to get married too. Our parents (both remarried) will help financially, they have done so for our brother, my dad is just notoriously tight!

My brother is hoping to emigrate to oz next year with his children.

Would I be unreasonable to also marry next year? I obviously would make my wedding as far from hers as possible date wise.

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Purplepoodle · 21/10/2014 19:42

I wouldn't bet on march being nice. I was married on the 1st and it's was snowing. I think you need to go talk to your minister and see what availability there is for a Sunday wedding.

fifi669 · 21/10/2014 22:24

We had a bit more of a chat and I've agreed to go for October half term. DP is a bit annoyed that he can't have the wedding when he'd like due to my sisters plans but that it's more important to go ahead than not.

My sister has also promised faithfully to make sure it's not raining on my day :)

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AliceLidaaagggghhhhhl · 21/10/2014 22:40

You've given a lot of good reasons for why you chose March 2015 as your ideal wedding date and people are ignoring them all to make comments about being worried about your hair or being a bridezilla wanting to steal your sisters thunder.

Is your sister Thor? Because otherwise she has no thunder to steal.

March is a reasonable amount of time away from your sister's wedding, particularly as her wedding is still a secret wedding hardly anybody knows about.

Especially since you were only told about this secret wedding after you and your DP had discussed your options and revealed you were thinking of March.

What would they have said if you'd done the same thing as your sister, and booked the wedding without saying a word? They could hardly make you cancel it.

You are being very generous to your sister. She's already vetoed May onwards as being too close to her wedding, and you've given very good reasons for not wanting to wait until October or later in the year, including TTC, your son's school, your grandparents age, their worries about traveling, your guests jobs and holiday entitlements, and your brother's emigration plans.

If your sister had posted to say that she had booked a secret wedding she wasn't telling anybody about until her DP had done a proper proposal, which he had been promising all year but still not gotten around to, but that in the meantime you had made wedding plans of your own, without knowing hers, and she was upset because your March wedding was now too close to her secret July one and she wanted you to cancel it until 2017, this would be a very different thread.

I doubt anybody would be telling her that she was being perfectly reasonable because you could get married right now, or at Christmas this year without your grandparents there, or at October next year without your grandparents and your brother there, or that you shouldn't have a wedding at all unless it cost to 2p in the registry office and your hair looked crap in all the photos because she had booked her secret wedding first.

fifi669 · 21/10/2014 22:46

alice thank you :)

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2rebecca · 21/10/2014 23:47

I think part of that is the OPs fault as she didn't say in her opener
that her sister only revealed she was getting married after she discussed her wedding.
We told both sets of parents we were getting married around x month and then sorted out which weekend round then was best for relatives and venue.
If the OP had done that then the sister would have looked silly objecting because of her secret wedding.
It's part of the don't tell your relatives what you are vaguely thinking just get on and do it so they can't muck things up school of thought.

AskYourselfWhy · 21/10/2014 23:49

OP, that's great that you've sorted it out. I think October is a great time to get married. It's a beautiful time of the year. My DB and DSIL married on a really dark and stormy day but it just made the candle lit church and reception look all the more magical. They also ended up with some beautiful photos.

Weddings are what you make them and even if your DSis doesn't get you a sunny day then I'm sure it won't matter.

GhoulWithADragonTattoo · 22/10/2014 06:45

I'm glad you've sorted it too and I'm glad you DSis was reasonable when you discussed. I hope your DBro and grandparents manage to be there in Oct.

BlackeyedSusan · 22/10/2014 07:24

I think it will be fine as long as she invites people first. she should get on with sending out save the date things.

tell her you are arranging it for... (insert month) and you will be sending invitations out in (insert month) and she should do that first.

diddl · 22/10/2014 08:52

glad it's decided.

weather wise you might get a better day!

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