SMOKY MOUNTAIN HONEYMOON CABINS
Is it okay to elope, and not invite your family, or anyone else?
My fiance and I are planning on getting married next April in the Smoky Mountains. We’d like to have a private wedding, just the two of us, and then honeymoon in a cabin in the mountains. He had mentioned possibly inviting his family to go with us, even though his mother clearly can not stand me, and calls him two or more times a week, to tell him that he should move out and not marry me.
My parents are divorced, and do not speak, and my brother and sister do not speak either, and I would like to have no stress on my wedding day, and advoid my feuding family, and his mother who does not like me, and just have a private cermony for us, and a reception the weekend after we return for our family and friends.
My fiance now says he agrees with me, but do you think this will cause his mother to hate me even more? Or should we do what we want to do, because it’s our wedding day, not hers?
When I was getting married we had trouble with families too. My husband’s mother doesn’t like me either and anything I do just isn’t right and both of my parents are remarried – what a hassle. Anyway, I am gonna pass onto you the best words of advice that I received about this issues, from my beloved Step Father:
“When you get married and ‘put on a wedding’ it is the first thing that you 2 do in public as a team – you are setting the stage for the rest of your lives and they way you do things says a lot about how you will be perceived by yourselves and others as a team. You need to get married in your own way and begin your life together in a style that you both can be proud of and live with.”
It sounds to me that you can either start off your life together with the same recurring theme of family angst that has been present all along, or you can make this marriage about the 2 of you and how you will focus on the family you are creating and do things differently in your future, than the last generation.
I vote that you go alone and really enjoy a private romantic wedding alone. You can always have a small public ceremony or party with family afterwards.
Our honeymoon Cabin
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