My sister is getting married in London which is where we're from: except all of us kids emigrated. Her soon to be DH is from America, which is where they live. There was a massive hoo ha about where they would get married, in the US or UK, with my DM recommending they just have two small dos in both countries to keep things simple. However my sister decided to do a big thing in London because she wanted to dazzle his US crew (her words).
Our family is scattered over Europe. My sister set the date of the wedding: and she chose NYE. We told her that was a bad idea because of flights and venue expenses as well as town being mad, but it emerged that it had to be NYE because his family would be in Europe for Xmas anyway.
She has been really tight with her wedding despite getting four figure sums from both my DM and his to help with it, to the point where she decided that none of the cousins on our side would be invited (all our age), but that the young children of his friends (??????) would be. This has caused a little bit of friction in the family because we have aunts and uncles from our family, but none of our cousins there, and some people have been a bit offended.
Anyway, our DM lives in a small terraced house with two bedrooms. And rather than get a bridal suite or something (?) my sister has decided that she and soon to be DH will be staying at my mums. This means that all of us travelling from around Europe back to London not only have to buy our travel tickets for NYE which is really expensive (plus I dont have the cash to advance buy them now), but we also have to get an Air Bnb. An uncle coming down from Scotland has just been in touch and said he's found a place we could all get together but it will be 500 quid for four nights per couple.
I don't know I just feel annoyed because money is so tight for me atm. But am I being unreasonable? In her defence, what else could she do?