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Editorial
Weddings
often turn out to be stressful for couples because they
allow themselves to be pressured by relatives into doing
what they don’t want to do. With everyone bombarding
you with advice, sometimes it is easier to cave in and
allow others to take over. However, if this is your
Big Day, why should you allow others (no matter how
well-meaning) to hijack it?
One
of the most difficult decisions to take is the guest
list. This is often dictated by the budget and by who
is actually paying for the wedding.
If
the parents of either the bride or groom are paying
for most of it, the tendency is for them to want to
invite their friends and other people with whom they
have social obligations. While this sounds reasonable
enough in principle, I often wonder whether parents
ever stop to think about what the couple really wants.
The
“I’m paying for it, so I decide on the invitations”
way of doing things can get so out of hand that the
bride and groom might end up with a wedding where they
barely know who half the guests are.
If
the couple doesn’t mind this, that’s fine, but in the
cases where the couple’s wishes are being overruled
by the wishes of the parents, perhaps it’s time to stop
and ask yourself: whose day is this, after all?
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