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To not go to a wedding of a man I've never met?

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Youthiswastedontheyoung · 28/10/2024 23:49

Adult niece (in-law). Never met fiance.
I'm more than happy for my husband and daughter to attend (and quite rightly so), but personally feel one shouldn't attend a wedding/invite someone to a wedding of someone whom they have never met.
AIBU?

OP posts:
Youthiswastedontheyoung · 30/10/2024 20:02

@DiduAye Im not able to go - embarrassment avoided 😀

OP posts:
QueSyrahSyrah · 30/10/2024 20:05

@DappledThings I was invited to my Brother's wedding with a +1. I was single at the time so an old friend that lived locally to the wedding came with me. I was the only person he knew at the whole wedding. We had a great time and then when it came to my own wedding he already knew my Brother & Sister-in-Law and spent much of the day with them.

Youthiswastedontheyoung · 30/10/2024 20:05

@DappledThings Quite a few posters have referred to a +1, so think it is actually quite common now?

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Fizbosshoes · 30/10/2024 20:06

I think sometimes people invite someone with a +1 because they realise that often people are seated in pairs, or it can be intimidating going to a function on your own, depending on how many other guests you know.

However you are not going to a wedding where you don't know who the people are - they are a current member if your family (by marriage) and a prospective member of your family that you happen not to have met yet, not some random couple that you're going to a wedding to make up numbers.

Pipsquiggle · 30/10/2024 20:08

Youthiswastedontheyoung · 30/10/2024 19:54

@DappledThings And that is EXACTLY my opinion. I would rather them not spend money on me to attend - each wedding guest costs - and to spend the money on themselves/inviting someone who they would really want there.

I know it happens (?often), but I still personally think it is totally nuts to go to a wedding where you have no idea who either the bride and groom are, for example!

@Youthiswastedontheyoung

AND.........we're back here again!

You are invited because you are the wife of the bride's uncle.
To not invite you would be fucking rude.
To not go because of YOUR weird beliefs (on all the various nuts stuff you have brought up) is fucking bizarre

@Youthiswastedontheyoung you are a lost cause, I think you would argue that up is down.

I wish your DH and DC good luck in their lives and hope they are protected from these, quite frankly strange issues YOU have.
I hope you seek therapy and one day are able to accept graciously an expensive gift one day.

Onestepbeyonnd · 30/10/2024 20:08

OP I think this is the perfect opportunity to meet him, along with anyone else’s partner that you haven’t met yet, family occasions are a great opportunity to be introduced to new boyfriends and girlfriends, husbands and wife’s.

I don’t anything wrong, or awkward with this. Go along and Introduce yourself to the groom as his new auntie in law and celebrate their marriage with them.

As family’s grow it’s not always possible to meet all family members before these events, life is busy.

Go to the wedding and have a lovely time, if you don’t go I fear it will look badly on you.

pikkumyy77 · 30/10/2024 20:09

I agree with the previous poster. There is a disturbing lack of empathy and insight in OP’s posts

DappledThings · 30/10/2024 20:11

Youthiswastedontheyoung · 30/10/2024 20:05

@DappledThings Quite a few posters have referred to a +1, so think it is actually quite common now?

Maybe. Still doesn't make you a plus 1 so it's irrelevant

AstonsGerbil · 30/10/2024 20:14

Wow this has been a fascinating thread.

You sound exactly like the ex GF of my DH's brother. My MIL wanted us to have a family gathering as a memory to DH's dad who had sadly died the year before. She booked us all rooms in a lovely hotel up where DBIL was going to be playing in a band. She sent the information round to DH and myself, her sister, DH's brother and his then GF (who you OP are reminding me of).

Ex GF kicked off saying she'd been brought up to always pay her way independently and not take anyone's money. MIL said fine I understand that but hotel room is paid, I've done it for everyone including my sister and her DH we are going to support DS (my DBIL's) band and in memory of my DFIL. So it's my treat (so says my MIL). DH and I and rest of family accepted this, thanked her profusely and said we would pay for the meal when we got there which she then accepted.

The point was she made the plans and she wanted us all there in memory of her DH and that's why she was generously paying the hotel rooms.

Ex GF of DBIL sent a terse angry message saying she would prefer to pay her own way or she won't go. MIL got v upset as she saw it as a rejection of her goodwill and DBIL was v stressed being caught between his mum and then GF.

In the end she didn't go and she must have bitched to HER DM about it as next time DMIL went out with her, her son and Ex GF's DM the DM got v drunk and started swearing and shouting at DMIL telling her she insulted her DD by paying for the hotel.

They were such an obtuse family. The ex GF was the worst though. One time when they turned up at our house I made a joke that she was only here to see my pets (the one thing she softened to) and she got extremely huffy with me and said how dare I suggest that; she was there to see me and DH. Took us all aback and it was so awkward. I strongly suspect she was neuro-diverse, I know that's a common trope and diagnosis on mumsnet but she was so literal and weirdly obtuse about everything. Like she did not understand any social cues or niceties at all.

Before anyone jumps down my throat my DC is v severely autistic and we suspect DBIL is too so it's in DH family, we embrace it and all the quirks, hard as they are sometimes. This ex GF was something else though. DBIL is a v gentle person. His ex GF bullied him a lot, once told him his job was worthless. Like in a matter of fact way and did not see anything wrong with saying that to him. It made us all wince.

Your posts are making me wince in the same way. As PP have said, you need to reflect deeply.

pollymere · 30/10/2024 20:26

I went to the wedding of a friend and I'd never met his fiancé. They are still married 25 years later but I don't think I've seen either of them since the wedding other than via social media. You're there to celebrate an occasion. It will look odd if you're not there.

Youthiswastedontheyoung · 30/10/2024 20:31

Thanks all for your input. I can't make the wedding as week day term time. But hubby and little one will of course still be there and will have a fab day 😊

OP posts:
Tetchypants · 30/10/2024 20:33

Youthiswastedontheyoung · 30/10/2024 20:31

Thanks all for your input. I can't make the wedding as week day term time. But hubby and little one will of course still be there and will have a fab day 😊

I imagine you’re relieved!

diddl · 30/10/2024 20:35

Well that's the decision made for you!

Youthiswastedontheyoung · 30/10/2024 20:39

@Tetchypants I am, yes.

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Currygirl · 30/10/2024 20:40

HalloweenHaribo · 28/10/2024 23:56

You're only expected to attend as a guest.

You don't need to have sex with him.

😂 😂

DonutHole · 30/10/2024 20:42

"Your posts make the situation sound as if it's all about your feelings, your beliefs, your 'principles' and your comfort. But this is their wedding and it should be all about them and their family. Couldn't you just put your own ideas and requirements aside for one day to please them?'

Totally agree with this summation from@amicissimma

Coatsoff42 · 30/10/2024 20:42

Youthiswastedontheyoung · 30/10/2024 20:31

Thanks all for your input. I can't make the wedding as week day term time. But hubby and little one will of course still be there and will have a fab day 😊

Thank goodness you aren’t going, I would think everyone involved, including yourself, can breathe a sigh of relief.

Best not go to a wedding if you don’t wish them well. You would have found it difficult to pretend to wish your niece all the happiness in the world under such difficult circumstances.

MissScarletInTheBallroom · 30/10/2024 20:42

Maria1979 · 30/10/2024 19:38

Don't know how they will be able to make it without you OP 🤣

The bride has probably read this thread and decided to make it on a weekday during term time.

RenoDakota · 30/10/2024 20:43

MissScarletInTheBallroom · 30/10/2024 20:42

The bride has probably read this thread and decided to make it on a weekday during term time.

🤣

PhilosophicalCheeseSandwich · 30/10/2024 20:43

Well fancy that. All this hand wringing over other people's finances and pretending you didn't recognise social norms for nothing! If you'd have just waited a bit you'd have been told the date of the wedding and realised you'd be working anyway.

ItsTooEarlyForThis · 30/10/2024 20:44

What a strange thread…

Youthiswastedontheyoung · 30/10/2024 20:45

Another few bitchy comments which makes me forever grateful to have a close circle of genuinely nice friends.
Such comments add nothing apart from reveal you're not bright enough to debate without being bitchy.

OP posts:
IHaveNeverLivedintheCastle · 30/10/2024 20:50

venus7 · 30/10/2024 19:18

I'm aware it's a social construct; you don't think of your husband's relations as yours, but they are. Part of the legality of marriage..you don't have to share their views.

Talking about "legality" is nonsense. I married my husband. I did not marry his family. There is no legal connection to them. I have no rights, duties or obligations to them, nor them to me.

Farting · 30/10/2024 20:50

If you don’t want to go then don’t go.

you dont owe anyone your presence, and your time is your own personal resource. No one is entitled to it though plenty believe they they are.

Farting · 30/10/2024 20:52

Currygirl · 30/10/2024 20:40

😂 😂

Ahhhhh now I’ve got it, that’s why op doesn’t want to go!

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