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AIBU to decline a midweek cousin's wedding abroad?

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Puppypleaser · 07/04/2026 10:01

I’ve been invited to a cousins wedding. It’s midweek in and abroad so involves 3 days off work , away from the family and probably about 1k in cost.

I haven’t seen the cousin in question for about 20 years and although I would have seen my uncle quite a bit when i was younger , we literally never meet now unless we bump into each other on the street. My brothers have a good relationship with him and see him relatively regularly so they are going.

My brothers and mother (she’s not invited, divorced from my late father) are trying to guilt me into going because of ‘family’

AIBU to hold firm.

I do a couple of girls weekends away during the year so it’s not like I don’t head away or don’t have the money. I just don’t want to give the time and money to this.

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Puppypleaser · 09/04/2026 09:17

BobbySox71 · 08/04/2026 19:08

You know you feel you don’t want to go.
i was the opposite i was invited to a cousins wedding who i last saw at my own wedding 20 years previously. I didn’t expect to be invited but the invite was sent out 6 weeks before. I’d loved to have gone and catch up with extended family, it was in my home country Ireland but a lot had to be organised first

If it was in a country where there was any other family, I might have considered it, but it’s somewhere where there is no family at all. And due to the fractured nature of the family there will likely be one other aunt there who I also haven’t seen in 20 years

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